Nagaraj Palacharla

CEO

East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, India15 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led a security team for major client projects.
Expert in application and network security solutions.
Proficient in vulnerability assessment and penetration testing.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Security and Infrastructure Specialist in the Information Technology sector.

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Skills

Core Skills

Application SecurityNetwork SecurityInfrastructure AdministrationServer Architecture

Other Skills

Malware analysisSecurity design solutionsThreat modelingVulnerability assessmentPenetration testingSecurity code reviewIIS managementServer managementApplication architecturePerformance troubleshootingLog analysisRelease managementF5 Load balancingApplication migrationMonitoring systems

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Experienced Subject Matter Expert with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Strong professional knowledge on application security, network security, malware analysis and also Strong business development professional skilled in Server Architecture, Domain Name System (DNS), System Deployment, Team Foundation Server (TFS), and Troubleshooting.

Experience

15 yrs

Total Experience

Average Tenure

9 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

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Subject Matter Expert at IBM India Pvt Ltd

Jun 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 11 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Working for the Client WPP.
Leading Security team of 8 members.
Propose and assist Security design solutions in coordination with client WPP and architects as requested by CHC.
working on Malware analysis.
Follow and maintain process & documentation as defined by compliance & quality standards
First point of escalation: Manage issues raised from WPP client and ensure resolution.
Threat modeling and security risk analysis.
Understanding of security Threat (spoofing, tampering, Dos etc), vulnerability assessment on OS, Middleware, communication interface and application.
Understanding of security breaches like OS command Injection, Network Data sniffing, Forced Browsing, DoS Attacks.
Understanding of techniques to avoid security breaches like Access Control, Secure session, Authorization, Privilege escalation etc
Assess vulnerabilities and impact to the products
Construct Security Technical Designs and Risk control measures
Designing the test cases are inspired from OWASP –Top 10 for Web application
Identifying the security threats by performing black box penetration testing on web application
Proficient in using proxy tools like ZAP, Burpsuite and Wireshark.
Ability to run the security scanning tools like Acunetix, Webinspect and Nessus.
Hands on Information Gathering Kali Linux tools Vulnerability Analysis, Wireless Attacks,
Exploitation Tools, Web Applications, Stress Testing, Sniffing & Spoofing and Password Attacks.
Prepared the reports for each channel and have rated the vulnerabilities, given the severity to the each vulnerability found with recommendations and evidences.
Helping the development team in fixing the issues.
Performing security code review using tools Checkmarx, SonarQube,Bandit.
FTP servers set up and management.
SSL management . Creating CSR's, Acquiring Standalone, Wildcard , SAN certificates.
Working on SSL renewals and managing all Wildcard and SAN certificates on servers and load balancer level installations.

Malware analysisSecurity design solutionsThreat modelingVulnerability assessmentPenetration testingSecurity code review+2

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Infrastructure Administrator

Apr 2014 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Managing multiple web sites hosted on IIS 7.0/7.5/8.5 in different Data Centers.
Managing above 500 servers those are in F5 environment and few servers are in NLB Manager.
Involving in New Applications Architecture discussions.
Hands-on experience in .Net IIS applications performance troubleshoots issues.
Project Management.
Managing Log parser by using scripts, Monitoring IIS App pools, analyzing event logs.
Analyzing IIS Logs by using Log Aggregation tools – ELEK, Google Urchin.
Experience in F5 Load balance LTM.
Effective experience in application Migrations across multiple Data Centers.
Proactive Experience in monitoring Application, Infrastructure with industry standard monitoring tools – Extrahop/AppDynamics/CatchPoint/Solarwinds/SCOM/Ignite.
Release management support on Test, Stage and Production environments through Jenkins.
Dynamic organized experience in resolving P1 issues as well associated MSFT calls.
Working on memory leaks, CPU hung issues due to Code issues along with Dev
Creating automated DebugDiag crash rules to generate Memory dumps to Analyze code leak issues and escalate to associated Dev team to fix the issues as proactively.
Interview panel member for recruiting L1/L2 and L3 engineer role and train them to onboard.
Motivated SPOC/SME for L1 and L2 team for knowledge sessions/Troubleshoot sessions.
Working on different POC’s and onboarding the project from Test/Stage.
Closely work with Release and Build team
Involving in QA Load Tests, Stress/Manual validation escalation process in fixing the issues timely.
Oncall support for weekend Escalation issues.
Configure SNMP service and SMTP services as per application needs.
Detail-Oriented Experience on SQL Server 2005/2008.

IIS managementServer managementApplication architecturePerformance troubleshootingLog analysisRelease management+2

Kantar

IIS Admin

Jun 2012 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Experience in F5 Load balance, Involved in F5 version update and configured new servers in F5, Involved IRules creation in F5.
Involved in Entire application Migration from one environment to another environment.
Experience in SolarWinds Monitoring system, configuring new servers in SolarWinds.
Involved in Application releases, monthly we do 20 releases.
Experience on Keynote monitoring system.
Configure SNMP service and SMTP services.
Experience in SQL Server 2005/2008.

F5 Load balancingApplication migrationMonitoring systemsSQL Server managementInfrastructure Administration