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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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