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Seattle, Wa, Us

Provide advocacy and strategic technical guidance to help plan and build solutions using best pactices, and proactively keep customers’ AWS environments operationally healthy. Craft and execute strategies to drive customers’ adoption and use of AWS services, including EC2, S3, DynamoDB & RDS databases, Lambda, CloudFront CDN, IoT, and many more. Represent AWS within a customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior leaderships regarding incidents, trade-offs, support and risk management.Establish close relationships with the customer, understand the business/operational needs and technical challenges and suggest solutions that would help them achieve greatest value from AWS.Become customers Trusted advisor and Provide 24x7 operational services or support for the customers and their environments.Support customers’ creative and transformative spirit of innovation across all technologies, including Compute, Storage, Database, Big Data, Application-level services, Networking, Serverless and more

Washington, Dc, Us

Key member of infrastructure team which owns the design, architecture and maintenance of 600+ APA’s AWS Cloud and on-prem servers.Owned cloud and data migration of critical apps from on-premise servers to AWS with zero downtime.Architected and deployed multiple Serverless and containerized(ECS) Applications in AWS by working closely with Dev teams on the build process.Defined roadmaps to evolve the existing cloud platform to drive cost optimization and process efficiency.Member of the highly respected DevOps Guild established to promote DevOps culture in the organization.Provided 24/7 production support and Participated in incident management and communication, including follow-up with problem solving and port-mortem.Performed deployment planning by creating change requests, deployment and rollback strategy to ensure successful deployments to production environments.Collaborated with agile development teams to provide day-to-day support for complex and cross-functional efforts in AWS/Azure.Established standard procedures in the cloud to ensure high availability, business continuity, security assessment and backup retention.Participated in design and implementation of AWS Account strategy for landing zone project using automated infrastructure deployment tools.Designed, Developed, established and enforced configuration management processes. Served as subject matter expert (SME) in documenting hardware and software configuration management / asset management processes and procedures.Played a key role in evaluating, establishing and conducting proof of concepts of various applications starting with web, on-premises to AWS.Provided architectural guidance and recommendations as part of application refactoring/migration to the cloudImplemented various event-driven architectural solutions as part of infrastructure management and to meet application and business requirements.

Washington, Dc, Us

Built, managed and maintained NoSQL database systems and integration points to other databases and applications.Responsible for entire NoSQL MarkLogic database infrastructure while supporting core mission critical applications utilizing advanced NoSQL features such as data rebalancing, Failover clustering, Replication (Database and Flexible) for HA/DRLead and handled entire cloud migration effort of SQL/NoSQL database infrastructure from on-prem to AWS cloud which includes resource planning,re-architecture, server upgrades and data migration.Involved in product scope evaluation by owning cloud resource planning and deployment, with emphasis on database monitoring, operations management, security, maintenance and utilization.Ensured strict adherence to ITS standards and maintained system integrity by following DB best practices.Performed database administration duties including configuring, upgrading and maintaining NoSQL database Servers in a physical, virtual and cloud environment.Implemented processes to evaluate ongoing database performance and made tuning recommendations.Built lambda proxies to interact with internal database servers using modern serverless architectures.

Bethesda, Md, Us

1) Landing Zone: Migration of Historical Click stream data present in Netezza TF12 to IBM Big Insights Hadoop Environment. Wrote ETL scripts that extracts data from Netezza DWH and load it into the IBM Big Insights as Apache Parquet files. The Size of data is 3.65TB.2)Maintaining the existing data migration program between Netezza TF12 and IBM Big Insights with occasional upgrades and enhancements.3)Responsible for validating the data migration in coordination with technical services personnel and maintaining test protocols.4) Big SQL (SQL on Hadoop) is primarily used to access the data on Big Insights platform.5) Operational Reporting: Developed a Multi-threaded Java application which connects to the Cognos Server and downloads reports based on the Cognos URL’s passed to the application. This is performed as part of Load Testing.6) URL’s of Cognos Reports are stored in Oracle DB. Application fetches the Cognos URL’s from Oracle DB.

79409, Tx, Us

1)Developed and Maintained Jump2health.com and jump2health.com/military websites using PHP and MySQL.2)Responsible for implementing and hosting of systems (web applications) on a web server.3)Developed a new responsive version of jump2health.com/military using Twitter Bootstrap and PHP.4)Developed a social networking site called “Nutribook” for Nutrition Department of Texas Tech University.5)Modified stored procedures, design of Fact Book and managed the application.6)Improved user interface of Common data sets and Historical Data for the Fact Book application which includes all the student related information using ASP.Net and CSS.7)Maintained SQL Server database for Employee Clock-in and Clock-out making use of Time Clock Plus.Environment: SQL Server, MySQL, PHP, ASP.NET, Subversion, Qualtrics, LAMP.

79409, Tx, Us

1. Modified stored procedures and design of Fact Book and managed the application.2. Improved user interface of Common data sets and Historical Data for the Fact Book application which includes all the student related information using ASP.Net and CSS.3. Created a new look for IRIM staff.4. Worked on Qualtrics a tool to design,manage and send Surveys. 5. Data Analysis on Survey results.

79409, Tx, Us

Job Responsibilities:1) Asp.Net application development and maintenance2) Setting up Work Repository called Subversion for all the projects.

1)Developed & maintained web sites and applications using PHP, Javascript, jQuery, AngularJS, HTML, and CSS.2)Developed the UI component architecture for developer framework using AngularJS.Websites Developed are:1)http://www.gescorp.org/ (Not Published yet)2)http://teamsanskriti.co.nf/

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

I have worked as a Test analyst for a Telecommunication company, Nokia Siemens Networks. As a test analyst I have been involved in identifying new test scenarios and exploratory testing. Key Practices:1) Agile Methodology 2) Commissioning the Hardware (Manual and BCQ)3) Minor Software Upgrade4) Major Software Upgrade5) Initial Commissioning Mode6) Disk Replication Mode7) Embedded Software Testing - Includes Firmware Upgrades8) Regression Testing 9) Functional Testing 10) Pronto testing 11) Automating test cases 12) Manual testing 13) Hardware support – Includes Hardware Configuration14) Troubleshooting Hardware issuesAs a tester I have worked on basic testing and automation tasks. After being promoted to the role of a Systems Engineer I have been the single point of contact for the client in all the business and technical purposes. I have been involved in devising strategies for project acquisition, resource allocation, resource management and delivery. In this role I have faced many challenges in designing and developing test ware that needed thorough scrutiny and analysis of the entire project and the development in particular.I participated in an Initial Learning process and developed a project for QWE Telecom Company. I was a star performer for the month of February 2013.

Visakhapatnam, Ap, In

Internship Programme at Symbiosys Technologies, Visakhapatnam. The covered various fields like Software Engineering, Data Warehousing and Data Mining, Ethical Hacking, Web Technologies, CMMI, ISO, HR Practices and Corporate practices.

Masters, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Technology (Btech), Computer Science