CAREER SUMMARY

• 7 years of professional experience as AWS Solution Architect, Network support and application development of Cisco content delivery networks and Cisco content management systems.
• Extensive experience in various IT disciplines with significant expertise in Development Operations, Systems Administration, and Technical Support Services within the telecommunications and banking industries.
• Designed, configured and managed cloud infrastructure utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS), including EC2, Elastic Container Service (Docker Containers), Elastic Beanstalk, S3, CloudFront, Elastic Filesystem, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, DirectConnect, Route53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation and IAM which allowed automated operations using Chef.
• Created AWS RDS database instances consisting of PostgreSQL, SQL Server and AWS RDS Aurora database clusters.
• Performed configuration, deployment and support of cloud services including Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience in administration of web servers and Http servers.
• Expertise in providing technical and network administrative assistance to Cisco customers.
• Experience in installation, configuration, migration and maintenance of Linux, Tomcat, HTTP server (IBM v8.0/7.x/6.x/2.x, Apache v2.x/1.3x/ and IIS 6.x Web Servers.
• Experience in programming in C and scripting (Shell, TCL/tk).
• Experience in release engineering activities and development of virtual platform using VSphere for Cisco Confidential, ACNS and Confidential .
• Experience in running network scanner tools to detect vulnerability issues.
• Expertise in handling security and vulnerability issues in tomcat servers and cisco ACNS.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

OS: Linux, Windows, OS X

Scripting: Shell, TCL, JSON

Certifications: CCNA

App Server: Tomcat 5.x,6.x, JBoss, OAS 10g

Web server: Apache 1.3.4/2.2.4/2.2.6/2.2.8, IBM Http Server 8/7/6/2.x/1.3,Oracle HTTP server, Oracle web cache

Protocols: HTTP, TCP/IP, WCCP, RTSP, RTP, LDAP, NFS, CIFS

DBMS: PostgreSQL

AWS tools: AWS CLI, VPC, EC2, Route 53, Amazon S3, AWS RDS, IAM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, configured and deployed Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a multitude of applications utilizing the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Cloud Formation, Cloud Watch, SQS, IAM), focusing on high - availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
• Configured AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Groups and Users for improved login authentication.
• Handled content distribution and data transfer and implementing content delivery network over Amazon CloudFront using Amazon WAF.
• Handled streaming and live content over Amazon CloudFront.
• Used Chef to automate deployment of applications on Amazon EC2.
• Handled configuration management of servers using Chef.
• Expertise in running applications using Elastic Bean Stalk.
• Created a AWS RDS Aurora DB cluster and connected to the database through an Amazon RDS Aurora DB Instance using the Amazon RDS Console.
• Configured an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Database Subnet Group for isolation of resources within the Amazon RDS Aurora DB cluster.
• Performed database SQL queries to address connectivity and integration activities.
• Configured AWS RDS Aurora database users to allow each individual user privileges to perform their related tasks.
• Migrated the production MySQL schema to the new AWS RDS Aurora instance.
• Enhanced the overall performance of AWS RDS Aurora database instances, by increasing the architectural class definition of specific instances.
• Implemented AWS High-Availability using AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), which performed a balance across instances in multiple Availability Zones.
• Assigned AWS Elastic IP Addresses used to work around host or availability zone failures by quickly remapping the address to another running instance or a replacement instance that was just started.
• Defined AWS Security Groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed to reach one or more AWS EC2 instances

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Handled development of ACNS versions 5.5.19 to 5.5.31 (debugging, bug fixing, unit testing and product feature enhancements).
• Programming in UNIX in developing Cisco ACNS.
• Involved in customer support at the technical level to the clients using ACNS --analyzing network traffic, analyzing system logs and on-line troubleshooting, bug filing, providing scripts, debugging core dumps or any other issues related to the ACNS product.
• Handled all vulnerability bugs related to apache tomcat and OpenSSL,
• Handled bugs related to DNS, SNMP, DHCP, WCCP and NTS.
• Maintaining Lab network and development test-bed for ACNS.
• Handling network administration issues of customers using cisco ACNS.
• Handled release engineering tasks for ACNS build versions 5.5.25 to 5.5.31.
• Developed VACNS (Virtual ACNS). VACNS have the capabilities to be able to run on Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) through VSphere (VMWARE) client.
• Handled all the bugs related to VACNS software development like booting of software on ESX, recognition of ESX interfaces on ACNS.
• Creating and cloning virtual ACNS using VSphere.
• Handled firmware upgrade.
• Handled software migration from Cisco ACNS to Cisco Confidential and developed scripts to eliminate configuration issues.
• Developed scripts to check performance related to handling of web traffic and to clean up cache.
• Providing technical training to new team members in networking, C, UNIX and video streaming in ACNS.
• CCO posting of the ACNS software image on the Cisco website for the customers.
• Handled migration of ACNS software from version 5.5.19 to version 5.5.21, 5.5.21 to 5.5.25, 5.5.25 to 5.5.31

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Handled development of Confidential versions 2.5.3 to 2.5.9 (debugging, bug fixing, unit testing and product feature enhancements).
• Feature enhancements include working on video streaming, caching application and platform development.
• Handled vulnerability and security issues related to Open SSL.
• Maintaining Lab network and development test-bed for Confidential .
• Involved in handling release engineering tasks for Confidential build versions.
• Worked on the development of Virtual Confidential . Virtual Confidential will have the capabilities to be able to run on Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) through VSphere (VMWARE) client.
• Providing technical training to new team members in networking, C, UNIX and streaming in Confidential .

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in development of platform module in Confidential versions Roseville to Tahoe.
• Involved in unit testing network interface module.
• Involved in development of VWAAS (Virtual Confidential ). VWAAS have the capabilities to be able to run on Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) through VSphere (VMWARE) client.
• Fixed bugs related to port channel interface and running configuration.
• Involved in writing automated scripts for porting in WCCP module.
• Maintaining Lab network and development test-bed for Confidential .