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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Remote (Atlanta)

• Leading the platform/cloud engineering team to build and optimize cloud infrastructure, self-serve tooling, and continuous delivery pipelines, driving efficiency and scalability across the organization• Designed and managed scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS, utilizing services such as AWS EKS, AWS Elasticashe/Redis, and AWS Aurora to support high-availability applications (Blue/Green & Disaster Recovery)• Infrastructure as code IaC, automated the creation and configuration of essential AWS resources—including VPCs, subnets, IAM roles, security groups, Route53, Amazon MQ, AWS EKS and AWS RDS/Aurora/Redis. Using Terraform, OpenTofu and Terragrunt. So that Establish modular templates to streamline provisioning, ensure compliance, and enable reproducibility across environments• Policy as Code PaC, automated policy validation processes, reducing manual review effort and improving deployment reliability by Implemented Kyverno Cluster Governance Policies to enforce compliance and best practices across Kubernetes • Set up and managed Canary Deployments (including Dark-Release approach) on AWS EKS using Kubernetes manifests, Istio mesh and ArgoCD/GitOps approach for intelligent traffic routing. Configured Istio routing to shift a percentage of production traffic to new releases, ensuring safe and incremental rollouts with minimal impact on users.• In the process of developing Internal Developer Platform (IDP), a self-service portal to automate repetitive infrastructure tasks, empowering developers to deploy and manage resources independently, reducing dependency on DevOps/Cloud/platform teams.• A Leveraged AWS Lambda to build and deploy serverless, event-driven solutions, optimizing for performance and reducing operational cost

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Designed and developed an API SDLC framework using GitLab Pipelines, creating an API DevOps process that minimizes manual intervention. Automated processes include OpenAPI/AsyncAPI contract creation and linting, API generation, deployment to Apigee Gateway, and contract publishing to the developer portal.• Defined API KPIs and DORA-based metrics, establishing an automated reporting process to provide data-driven insights for the CTO group (focus on DORA metrics).• Collaborated closely with stakeholders and the CTO group to design and implement automation solutions that align with business needs and architectural goals.• Delivered out-of-the-box automated solutions for reporting and dashboards, enhancing visibility for the CTO group, business partners, and stakeholders.• Developed self-service tools and pipelines to streamline enterprise application administration, build and packaging, deployment, and monitoring.• Created automated trigger pipelines to respond to user actions, improving operational efficiency.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Led a team of 5 engineers, overseeing daily operations and technical direction.• Administered and supported Apigee Edge Gateway, IBM DataPower, and F5 load balancers.• Developed and deployed three Java-based dynamic web applications with user-friendly UI, streamlining administrative and developer tasks. These automation tools continue to be in use until this day, improving self-service capabilities, efficiency, and reducing dependencies across enterprise application administration, deployment, and monitoring.• Led large-scale migrations of data center infrastructure between two on-premises co-location facilities.• Spearheaded the migration of on-premises infrastructure to AWS cloud, enhancing scalability and reducing costs.• Provided ongoing support for on-prem, private cloud, and AWS cloud environments.• Delivered proof-of-concept presentations for emerging technologies to stakeholders, senior management, and VPs.• Designed and developed an in-house automation tool for IBM DataPower and IBM WebSphere Application Server deployment administration, utilizing Java 7, Jython, Servlet & JSP technologies, and Tomcat v7.• Conducted training sessions and workshops on a variety of technologies, creating custom labs and mentoring junior team members.

Johns Creeks, Ga

• Led capacity planning, licensing, and performance tuning to optimize IT assets and forecast growth.• Developed data center strategies for migration, consolidation, and cost reduction.• Created long-term technology roadmaps aligned with business goals.• Designed and implemented scalable IT solutions for efficiency.• Ensured systems and projects aligned with enterprise vision.• Architected high-availability solutions for continuous service delivery.• Expertise in middleware, web servers, messaging systems, databases, SAN, and networking hardware, including IBM, Dell, and Cisco.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Site Reliability Engineer: Responsible for IBM DataPower XI52, WebSphere Application Server ND and IBM MQ (more than 100++ instances). Tasks Includes but not limited to architecture design, high availability setup, fault tolerant setup, capacity planning, installation & upgrade, deployment, applying security best practices, monitoring, and alerting.• Leading IT infrastructure projects (end-to-end) through software development life cycle (SDLC) based on Agile methodology and toolsets.• Automating of installation and deployment process (WSadmin/Jython/ANT/Bash)• Hands-on troubleshooting, issue-resolution, performance tuning, root-cause analysis and Networking and TCP/IP troubleshooting for supported platforms.

Duluth, Ga

• Played a major part in implement Macy’s infrastructure private cloud using VMware, vSphere 5.1 and Lab Manager. Exposing Self-Serve Web GUI for developers to request fully functioning infrastructure environment (WebSphere application server ND infrastructure as a service)• Automation of the entire process of WebSphere Application Server ND v6.1/v7.0 installation, configurations, environment build and setup, integration with LDAP, setup horizontal clustering, code deployment and Server control tasks using wsadmin, Jython, ANT and Anthill Pro.• Automation of blue/green (Cell A, Cell B) cluster setup to avoid downtime during deployment, controlling of traffic routing.• Migration/Rehosting of WebSphere Application Server ND environments (over 30 instances) from AIX 64 bits to Linux 64bits platform (VMware).• Provided system monitoring using ITCAM, Keynote monitoring tools to ensure system operation health to meet service level agreements (USA nationwide).

Alpharetta, Ga

• Provided 24x7 support to maintain application functionality and minimize disruptions.• Troubleshot JVM issues, including memory, threads, crashes, and performance bottlenecks.• Administered production environments (WebSphere, JBoss, WebLogic, MQ, HTTP Server).• Managed OS/platform upgrades, fix pack installations, and application deployments.

Alpharetta, Ga

• Developed core Java functionality and supported WebSphere and related systems.• Administered and troubleshot WebSphere Application Server, HTTP Server, MQ, and Message Broker.• Automated tasks using WSadmin CLI, Jython, and scripts for configuration and deployment.• Applied updates and automated installation processes to improve reliability and efficiency.

Greater Chicago Area

• Contributed to the design and development of a web-based document processing solution using Java, J2EE, JDBC, JSP, Struts, JSP, Servlets and XML technologies.• Developed web services with SOAP/WSDL and created DTDs/XSD schemas for XML processing.• Built Java-XML parsers and batch processing applications.

Master'S Degree, Cyber Security

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Research/Teaching Scholarship.

B.Sc, Applied Science