PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A result driven IT professional with extensive experience in software development, Cloud DevOps & Security projects delivery. Since last 5 years, I perform 80% hands on technical work and 20% lead/management work.
• Work experience includes customer - facing roles as presales solution architect, delivery manager, team lead etc.
• Have experience with large-scale projects with $100m+ in project budget, transaction volumes of 27 million+ a day serving 50-million+ user base.
• Extensive experience with recruiting and leading a team of size 4 to 19. Defining processes, rotation schedule, negotiating coverage hours & SLAs with internal and external customers.
• Experience with start-up companies with 4 employees to large Fortune 500 companies with 25,000+ employees.
• Hands-on technical experience includes hybrid cloud infrastructure architecture/build, Identity/Access Management, SOA/Microservices platform build, building DevOps/CI/CD frameworks, development experience on J2EE/SOA.
• Effective communicator with proven ability to build strong working relationships with company/client leadership, internal teams, vendors and offshore staff.
• Experienced with defining SLA, internal procedures for change management and incident management using state of the art ticketing and reporting tools. Certified with ITIL® based IT service management and delivery procedures

PROJECT PORTFOLIO SUMMARY:

• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Microservices (SpringBoot, Mulesoft)
• AWS native services
• J2EE
• PHP/Drupal
• API security (OAuth2, OpenID Connect)
• Infrastructure security
• Identity & access management (User provisioning, certifications, SSO, SAML/Federation)
• Compliance audits
• Data center operations
• Hybrid cloud infrastructure architecture/build
• Hosting custom and cloud native applications
• Disaster recovery
• API security (OAuth, OpenID Connect)
• API Gateway (Mulesoft, Oracle API platform cloud, AWS API Gateway)
• Mulesoft AnyPoint Platform
• Oracle SOA Suite 11g/12c (OSB, B2B, BAM, SOA/BPEL, OHS)
• AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, EC2, S3, ECS, Network components (VPCs, Security Groups, Load Balancers, Route53, CloudFront, WAF), KMS, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Auto Scaling)
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• RedHat OpenShift, Istio
• Jenkins
• Terraform
• OpenStack
• Chef, Ansible
• GIT/TFS/CodeCommit
• ElasticSearch, LogStash, Kibana

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Enterprise Lead/SME

Responsibilities:

• I conceptualized, architected several initiatives and provided presentations/POCs to leadership that eventually resulted in approvals/budget allocation for production implementation passing through full SDLC.
• Lead the team to architect and build AWS application infrastructure and cloud based Mulesoft Microservices engine as integration platform. AWS services used are: Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, EC2, ECS, Network components (VPCs, Security Groups, Load Balancers, Route53, CloudFront, WAF), KMS, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Auto Scaling
• Docker/Kubernetes based containerization for on-prem applications. Built a Kubernetes orchestration layer based on RedHat OpenShift.
• Lead the team to build Identity and Access Management platform providing enterprise wide Single Sign On, directory services, Federation services between cloud partners, user identity management, access certifications and overall identity governance. Created hybrid cloud security architecture documentation/artifacts following industry standard benchmarking such as CIS to reflect security measures for data at rest/flight, network/infrastructure security, PHI compliance.
• Lead the team to build On-Prem Jenkins based CI/CD pipeline for code build, deploy and test using the source code management tools such as GIT and MS TFS. Later on, this build/deployment framework was extended to cloud deployment automation.
• Lead the team to deliver Oracle SOA Suite based infrastructure from scratch using components such as B2B, BAM, OSB/WSDL/SOAP, SOA/BPEL, JMS, OHS. The on-prem SOA platform served two purpose: one, it provided real time integration for external clouds partners & internal Java/.NET applications to on-prem data stores/applications. Two, using B2B/OSB components it processed large number of daily/weekly/monthly member data files.
• Built on-prem API gateway solution for centralized security/management/audit of APIs, API security via OAuth2/JWT/OpenID Connect
• Security/integration between on-prem SOA platform and SalesForce via use of API gateway
• Created enterprise artifacts such as architecture diagrams, security architecture and Runbooks.

Confidential

Lead for Service Delivery operations

Responsibilities:

• Projects included development work on Oracle Fusion Middleware platform, Oracle eBusiness Suite, Drupal/PHP E-Commerce websites, Cloud migration (AWS), Load testing cloud based and privately hosted applications for peak user load, Identity/Access management
• Several cloud/DevOps centric projects for small/medium size clients. Some examples include “containerize” the applications using Docker, build private clouds using OpenStack, migrating hosting infrastructure from on-prem to AWS, building automated CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins
• Worked on API security, application SSO, federation for on-prem/cloud applications
• Set up monitoring, analytics using ElasticSearch/Logstash/Kibana ( Confidential )
• Work with clients to ensure the successful delivery and growing the account revenue
• Address day-to-day infrastructure and code issues. Work through ticketing and documentation to implement ITIL based processes
• Perform proof of concept for new infrastructure components to see feasibility in existing infrastructure.
• Extensive load tests to fine-tune JVM and configuration of Oracle components. Work with developers to resolve performance bottlenecks
• Create and document infrastructure design, application architecture, support procedures etc.
• Help in hiring new team members. Device and implement new employee onboarding process within the team.
• Work with vendors for support agreements and licensing requirements

Confidential, El Segundo CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked on various high visibility projects in middleware space including middleware in-sourcing and middleware platform replacement
• As part of middleware in-sourcing project, worked on building Confidential ’s in-house data center and migrated entire middleware platform from Confidential hosted data center
• Perform proof of concept for choosing new middleware SOA platform between vendors such as Oracle (Fusion Middleware) & IBM (WebSphere suite). Defined detailed performance criteria for new middleware, work with pre-sales engineering teams from both the vendors to implement company specific service APIs their respective platforms, prepare detailed report about pros and cons of both the platforms and create final report with ratings and recommendations between two platforms.
• Architect, build and support for complex service oriented environment with very high transaction supporting a large user base Leading the team to implement Fusion middleware components SOA suite, OSB, Coherence, web tier etc. for first time implementation after license purchase
• Coordinate day to day troubleshooting of SOA environment issues ranging from service calls failures, slowness, external (business partners) connectivity, pay load and end point related issues, application server issues, JMS over flow, tuning, threading related issues, work managers, cluster issues, deployment and load balancing etc.
• Assist in finalizing new middleware architecture and preparing architectural diagrams. Working with various teams to provision for new infrastructure (IP, networks, capacity, firewall, virtual machines, security etc.)
• Prepare Disaster Recovery plan and coordinate documentation for DR. Build DR sites and perform DR exercises. Configurations for high availability (HA/DR) to achieve goal of 99.999% of uptime SLA.
• Participate in daily SQA calls to represent middleware operations team to support very high volume daily activities such as code builds, enterprise release and testing activities

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

Responsibilities:

• Closely work with Sales team a presales solution architect to develop solutions for clients as part of sales cycle
• Work with offshore and USA based staff to ensure high service delivery standards
• Work on data center operations to setup hosting infrastructure and networks specific to customer needs.
• Built & supported dedicated hosting infrastructure to over 75 small/medium scale clients
• Operations managed includes data center components builds (Linux/Windows instances, firewall/router rules, databases, applications servers, web servers etc.), DR build, AWS support for customer’s accounts, 24x7 monitoring.

Confidential, OAKS, PA

Responsibilities:

• UNIX/DNS administration for day to day weblogic issues such as high CPU, runaway processes, library files for external components etc. Owned Unix root access on webserver Unix machines and weblogic Unix machines. Environment build tasks such as firewall requests, IP plumbing (creating Virtual IPs), creating and modifying hosts files & interface files, installing Linux, hardening Linux, setting up Control-M monitoring on it. Implement SAR based resource utilization and participate in capacity planning based on monthly reports.
• Managing LDAP users (create, modify, delete, import/export mass users). Admin access to companywide LDAP installation. Administering LDAP through Softerra LDAP browser.
• Built end-to-end siteminder security infrastructure from the scratch for user access management, auditing, SSO. Built policy server, define security policies, built web agents, creating trusted hosts, integrate apache with siteminder, and define password policies and user/policy stores
• Configured a complex JMS message flow for SOA implementation which would initiate from a weblogic frontend domain to another weblogic domain (weblogic backend domain) using message bridge to Aqualogic Service Bus to IBM MQ to different external components such as Weblogic Tuxedo, Informatica, Real Time Message Hub etc. Weblogic Frontend domain and Weblogic Backend domain communicates through JMS message bridge. Weblogic Backend domain and Aqualogic Service Bus (ALSB) communicates JMS messages using proxy services. ALSB would enrich the message and pass the JMS message to IBM MQ Series using business services. MQ would then distribute the messages to external components using standard Qmanager concepts.
• Build Disaster Recovery data center components for middleware. Participate in the full disaster recovery exercise.
• 24x7 oncall rotation. Vendor case management with Sun, IBM, CA and BEA/Oracle. Patch and service pack management, security alerts, license compliance and proof of concepts (POC) for new versions or tools.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Confidential ’s B2B and B2C applications.
• Supporting very high transaction MyBusiness and MyAccount websites for business and retail customer
• Exposure to VOIP technologies based products and various communication protocols.
• Worked on a complex and highly available Active-Active datacenter architecture. Real time replication of database and other configuration push.
• Deployment, troubleshooting and maintenance of Verizon’s very complex Single Sign On (SSO), Non-SSO, Clustered and non-clustered applications. Oncall admin for production websites.
• Weblogic server builds, Webserver builds, Unix system builds, Webserver integration with Access Manager, Weblogic’s integration with Oracle RAC.
• Infrastructure monitoring using Wily Interoscope. Real time traffic monitoring and analysis.
• Supporting a tight and fast track schedule of daily code deployment. Worked closely with developers, testers, database admins and Unix admins.
• Supported Websphere environments for deployment, environment builds, troubleshooting and monitoring. In access of 25 Websphere based and 30 Weblogic based domains integrated with database, service bus (SOA), Access manager and active-active hardware load balancer modules.

Confidential, Carlsbad CA

Responsibilities:

• Worked on ‘ Confidential Project Planning’ J2EE Application.
• I was responsible for end to end build out of middle ware infrastructure, its deployment, best practices and post deployment troubleshooting.
• Designed the first-time-production-rollout strategy for Confidential app.
• Assisted the customer service representatives and end customers with initial production rollout issues.
• Half infrastructure was Windows based Weblogic servers and half was Confidential -UX based JBOSS application servers
• Built the Weblogic Server 10.0 environments (Development, QA and Production) from the scratch using WLST scripting
• Deploying Static content on frontend MS-IIS webserver.
• Weblogic Server environment upgrades from version 8.1 SP3 to 10.0
• Extensive deployment experience.
• Configuration and troubleshooting for session replication, multicast, load balancing aspects of environments
• Defining security policies within Weblogic server for console access and the application access
• Embedding Active Directory and openLDAP authentication with Weblogic server
• SSL and DNS administration

Confidential, Brea/Irvine, CA

Responsibilities:

• Developed ANT build scripts, Unix shell scripts and auto deployment process.
• Integrated profiling and monitoring tools like JProbe, SiteScope and Confidential Diagnostics with Weblogic 8.1 and 9.2.
• Worked closely with developers, testers and business analysts for production roll out of several new projects.
• Administration & trouble shooting of Batch Jobs, Autosys Jobs and NDM configuration for internal servers.
• Responsible for SSL certificates administration for all the websites of the company which included generating CSR, requesting SSL from the vendor and installing it in different web environments.
• Coordinated external DNS change requests with the vendor hosting DNS servers for Confidential Companies.
• Coordinated the disaster recovery data center development and disaster recovery action plan documentation from the scratch. Built the Active-Passive datacenter architecture. Participated heavily in production datacenter failover and recovery exercises. Built disaster recovery environment for the existing production websites.
• Used and maintained several industry standard tools like Clear Case/Clear Quest (code repository and deployment system), Confidential (code repository and deployment system), Remedy Action Request System (problem/support ticket tracking system to be used by developers and testers), Ultraseek (search engine for website), Batch Jobs, Autosys Jobs, Lotus Notes data base, Eroom etc.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed framework classes for Advisor and designed HTML, JSP’s for front-end templates.
• Set up environments on Unix and Linux machines. Set up users, groups, roles and filesystem permissions.
• Administer basic Unix functions including LDAP integration with
• Business validations are performed using JavaScript and developed Servlets for main business logic implementation.
• Designed and developed two types of Session EJBs.
• Designed and developed Persistent Entity EJBs.
• Developed JDBC code for accessing DATA from the database.
• B2B interaction was developed using XML. The XML Parser was coded by using DOM and SAX API’s.