SUMMARY

• Around 3 years of IT Industry Experience in all SDLC phases for projects spanning from large - scale complex software development to maintenance projects in diverse industries like Energy & Utilities, Manufacturing and Logistics and Insurance.
• Around 3 years of experience in developing high-performance SOA applications using Middleware Integration tools like IBM DataPower, IBM APIC, IBM MQ and MQIPT.
• Experience in designing and development of WS Proxy, MPGW and XML Firewalls objects using IBM DataPower XI52,XB62 and IDG appliances involving FTP, SFTP, MQ, HTTP(s) and HTTP protocols on WebSphere DataPower suite of appliances.
• Experience in configuration and administration of various DataPower appliances like XI52, XB62 and IDG.
• Worked on various IBM WebSphere DataPower interfaces like WEB GUI, CLI, XML management interface.
• Performed secure backup and secure restore of various DataPower appliances.
• Worked on SOMA and AMP in datapower by importing wsdl and xsd’s from appliances and written shell scripts on linux machine and scheduled it as a cron job to monitor the health of DataPower appliance.
• Extensively worked on administration activities like configuring Ethernet interfaces, NTP servers, DNS servers and also initialized DataPower appliances.
• Worked on various security mechanisms like Basic Auth, Client ID & Client secret and OAuth 2.0 implementations in IBM APIC.
• Having very good knowledge on API maturity model developed various SOAP and REST API’s. in IBM APIC cloud.
• Experienced in configuring and troubleshooting complex SSL proxy profiles in Data Power and TLS profiles in APIC and handled APIC server certificates.
• Supported API platform and API related activities including requirement analysis, resource-based API modeling and micro services architecture
• Having knowledge on how IBM APIC is used to integrate with IBM DataPower and how to use Cloud Management Console to configure various DataPower gateways.
• Support designers, developers, and testers throughout the application development lifecycle
• Developed and deployed SOAP and REST API’s on IBM APIC environment.
• Configured various rate plans, packaged various API’s with relevant products and deployed in various environments.
• Experienced in using APIC Analytics to troubleshoot issues and pulled out plan analytics to figure out how much load is imposed on API and alerting consumers based on that.
• Helped new consumers to subscribe to the new API’s through APIC developer portal and helped them understand how to use client id and client secret and the concept of rate plans.
• Supported full blown IBM MQ environment hosted on Linux and mainframe operating systems.
• Troubleshooted various issues related to MQ environment and configured SSL certificates for both MQ and MQIPT.
• Created various kdb files and pfx files using IBM Key management tool and managed certificates related to MQ and MQIPT.
• Experience in using Splunk for logging purposes, creating dashboards and generating reports and used Tivoli alerting for monitoring queue depth, channel issues and also used Kibana to monitor queue level logs.
• Good knowledge of Patterns and Best Practices for Business Integration. Understanding of SOA Reference Architecture of IBM, Service Data Objects (SDO) and Services Component Architecture (SCA).
• Strong understanding of project life cycle and SDLC methodologies including Waterfall and Agile. Well Trained and Strong Experience in Agile methodology practices like Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®).
• Ability to pick up new technologies, solve complex technical/runtime problems and multitask between different projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Java, JavaScript, Shell Scripting, Apache Ant
• IBM DataPower, WebSphere MQ, MQIPT, IBM APIC, IBM WTX.
• PVCS Version Manager, Serena Team Track, Git hub
• Oracle, SQL Server
• XML, YAML, WSDL, Swagger, Json.
• SOAP UI, Beyond Compare, Postman

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MI

IBM APIC/ Datapower Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design and development of Integrated Middleware solutions through Data Power gateways and APIC.
• Configured Multi-Protocol Gateway, Web Service Proxies and XML Firewall for exposing or consuming web services and API’s over Internet and Intranet
• Integrated various applications with SOAP, JSON, XML and Non-XML services.
• Added responsibilities were basic authorization, SSL offloading, custom header injection, error handling, and display user friendly HTML error pages concealing vital information that was leaking into error messages before Configured Web Service proxy with WSRR with manual/poll/automatic synchronization methods.
• Created SSL Proxies to authenticate the protocol level security for HTTPS service communications.
• Worked on documenting the services in IBM Developer portal which are currently in CA Layer Gateway.
• Imported YAML files into APIM console and worked on fixing the schema validation errors and staged them and published them into the environments.
• Worked on implementation of OAuth 2.0 password flow in IBM APIC.
• Also customized the IBM developer portal according to company design patterns by importing custom themes and by creating custom blocks.
• Trained other developer team members on how to create developer organizations and register themselves in IBM developer portal.
• Provided Knowledge transfer to members on how to use APIC console and publish various products into catalog, subscribe them through developer portal and how to invoke the APIs by passing the required parameters.
• Trained DEV team members on how to implement various security mechanisms in IBM APIC such as API key, Basic Auth and OAuth (password flow).
• Configured various catalogs and managed catalog permissions and also created various spaces in the catalog.
• Developed POC to show how APIC works as an OAuth provider and also implemented OAuth security mechanism by integrating APIC with third party OAuth Provider.

Confidential

IBM DataPower Developer, MQ, APIC

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design and development of Integrated Middleware solutions through DataPower gateways and APIC.
• Configured Multi-Protocol Gateway, Web Service Proxies and XML Firewall for exposing or consuming web services and API’s over Internet and Intranet.
• Developed various API’s using API Connect environment and deployed them.
• Created various developer organizations and provider organizations in IBM APIC and managed them.
• Created various SOAP APIs by importing wsdl and also created various REST APIs in IBM APIC environment.
• Used Cloud Management console to manage the IBM APIC cloud.
• Troubleshooted various issues related to MQ environment and configured SSL certificates for both MQ and MQIPT
• Configured various SSL proxy profiles in DataPower and TLS profiles in APIC environments.
• Helped on board new consumers using APIC developer portal and trained them on using client id and client secret based authentication.
• Implemented Message Confidentiality and Integrity through Encryption, Digital Signature, SSL and Schema Validation.
• Configured SQL data source to connect with Oracle DB and written xslt to perform the data transformation.
• Implemented Message Transformation through XSLT and Gateway Script to achieve business logic.
• Implemented message authentication through LDAP.
• Implemented Dynamic Routing and orchestration through Stylesheets and actions.
• Hands on experience with DP extension functions, variables and policy actions.
• Configured Log Targets to offload syslog’s to SPLUNK and Unix servers for Auditing and compliance.
• Experience in creating PMRs with IBM to troubleshoot issues surrounding firmware bugs.
• Troubleshooting MQ issues and APIC related issues in various environments.
• Proficient with troubleshooting DataPower services through probe, logs, packet capture, log targets and other monitoring tools.

Environment: IBM DataPower XB62, IBM WebSphere MQ, MQIPT, APIC, Splunk, SOAPUI, Postman.

Confidential, Lasvegas

IBM DataPower Developer/ Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering requirements from clients and other application teams.
• Configured functional hub services in MPGW and exposed the services to encapsulate the backend systems as well as to handle security.
• Developed various API’s using API Connect environment and deployed them.
• Tested SOAP over HTTP binding using WSDL and migrated Data power objects within various test environments.
• Implemented Reverse and Forward and Mutual SSL Authentication.
• Worked on XSLT in transformations, routings and enrichments.
• Integrated the DataPower with MQ and configured interfaces to push/pull the messages to the IBM MQ.
• Created AAA policies to authenticate and authorize user requests.
• Added responsibilities were basic authorization, SSL offloading, custom header injection, error handling, and display user friendly HTML error pages concealing vital information that was leaking into error messages before Configured Web Service proxy with WSRR with manual/poll/automatic synchronization methods.
• Created SSL Proxies to authenticate the protocol level security for HTTPS service communications.
• Implemented error handling for all possible scenarios by identifying the characteristics of request and response messages.
• Analyzing System logs for performing necessary actions during testing.
• Involved in initializing the Data power appliance by configuring Ethernet interfaces, enabling WEB GUI, SSH.
• Configured NTP servers on Data power appliances.
• Hands on experience on working with data power CLI for performing administrative activities.
• Performed secure backup and secure restore of appliances where ever necessary.
• Worked with SOMA and AMP protocols and have written shell scripts to invoke the SOAP API’S inorder to monitor the state of data power appliance.
• Performed and documented Deployments and performed code/firmware migration between environments.
• Monitoring the production traffic and troubleshooting the failed transactions by different mechanisms like checking the logs, TCP/IP test, Ping remote, HTTP connections, logging etc.
• Prepared High Level and Low-Level Design documents for DataPower services development.

Environment: IBM DataPower (Firmware XI52 7.0-7.6 and IDG 7.6), IBM MQ, IBM APIC, XML, XSLT, JSON, Oracle, REST, SOAP

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Middleware Developer

Responsibilities:

• Participate in infrastructure installation and design of API Connect, DataPower and WMQ.
• Tested SOAP over HTTP binding using WSDL and migrated Data power objects within various test environments.
• Performed end-to-end testing, resolved problems and validated the test results. Performed unit testing and unit Integration testing.
• Integrated various applications with SOAP, JSON, XML and Non-XML services.
• Configured various actions while defining rules and policies like Transform action, AAA Action, Match Rule, Encryption, Decryption, Filter action, Validate, Route and various others.
• Added responsibilities were basic authorization, SSL offloading, custom header injection, error handling, and display user friendly HTML error pages concealing vital information that was leaking into error messages before Configured Web Service proxy with WSRR with manual/poll/automatic synchronization methods.
• Built Multi-protocol gateway for HTTPS MQ protocol bridging, while performing transformation of the messages from SOAP to XML and back.
• Resolved complex issues related to Data power, mobile applications and back-end service calls.

Environment: IBM DataPower (Firmware XI52 7.0-7.6 and IDG 7.6), IBM MQ, IBM APIC, XML, XSLT, JSON, Oracle, REST, SOAP