Aug 2016 – Dec 2021 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · Remote

• Client Delivery
• Lead Projects, and also own a full implementation or part of an implementation while deploying the product to the customer.
• Participate in the advisory, planning and implementation of financial systems by documenting requirements, mapping processes, gathering system data and converting data into format required for integration.
• Oversee teams to implement solutions by leading the team through requirements, design, build, report development, change management, testing and cutover activities.
• Work with the team members and clients to achieve agreed upon time lines, set deliverable structure and content while producing "client-ready" deliverables
• Anticipate, escalate and propose solutions for service and quality issues
• VMware vRA capabilities
• End to end designing, planning, implementation deployment of VMware vRealize product covering products like vRealize Automation, v Realize Operations, vRealize Orchestrator, vRealize Business Suite, vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Business Standard Business Advanced, vSphere, vCenter etc.
• Hands on experience in planning, designing and developing Infrastructure related Automation Solutions using vRealize Workflows, Developing automation scenarios using vRA, vRO toolset, SDK, APIs, scripting
• Worked with development team and setup mulitle base blueprints and integrated the middleware and database using chef roles
• Migrate the blueprints from LAB to production environments using cloud client
• Setup artifactory server for storing, versioning of the binaries
• Deployed multiple vRealize workflows in the Infrastructure space on RHEL, Windows, SUSE, SQL Server, Web MQ, Tomcat, IIS etc.
• Automated the different monitoring tools like cylance, tanium, tripwire, BESClient etc.. using chef roles and integrated them with vRO workflows
• Hands on design, develop, integrate, testing right from technical requirement gathering OS lifecycle management related automation, using vRealize suite of products

Jan 2016 – Jul 2016 · 6 mos · Bangalore

• Design, Architect, lead and drive the different AWS cloud projects
• Goals
•  Prepare AWS architecture diagrams, POCs, SOW, Effort estimation, design, task allocation, coding and deployment, costing of the AWS infrastructure that is going to be built on AWS.
•  Propose and implement the market best practices and optimizations required for the customer's AWS environment.
• Responsibilities
•  POC (Proof of Concept) and enhancements
•  Technical issue resolution, unit testing and code review
•  Facilitated UAT (User acceptance testing)
•  Maintain and coordinate an effective partnership with customers through senior executive contacts and with those who influence the decision-maker
• Ensures that solutions have been quality assured for a successful implementation and in compliance with Organization's overall strategy.
• Provide inputs to the transition team and Lead the solution team to help develop the transition schedule, plan and staffing.

Mar 2015 – Oct 2015 · 7 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Providing thought leadership to deliver DevOps Automation and enable continuous delivery of distributed applications
• Automate the 3D-Warehouse application for HA/DR
• Automate the deployment for CI/CD using Chef
• Migrate 3D-Warehouse application from percona MySQL to Aurora RDS
• Minimize cost of AWS public cloud infrastructure
• Centralize Devops and COE
• Setup end-to-end monitoring using datadog, pingdom, loggly, Ylastic etc.…
• Cost optimized AWS public cloud by closely working with AWS TAMS, AWS solution architects
• Manage a team of level I/II/III engineers
• Ensure completion of operational and technical documentation prior to the new release for each of the application

Nov 2008 – Jan 2015 · 6 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Key Result Areas
• Accountable for:
• o Designing & delivering highly available and secure hosted applications (Software as a Service - SaaS)
• o Driving automation for most of the manual tasks, this ensuring smoother and easier day-to-day activities
• o Automated all the routine activities for both production and pre-production environment via rundeck
• o Acting as a driver for most of the QBO projects like company migrations, SKU migration, ARAP migration, Obill setup, Wholesale billing setup, Recurring templates migrations
• o Setting-up and maintaining a disaster recovery site, monitoring systems & deployments
• o Evaluating new technology and implement them to improve delivery of services for customers in a cost-efficient manner
• o Fixing the data migration script for Small Business Revenue Index
• o Heading the Global Clusters Setup for QBO end-to-end (AMER, APAC, EMEA and WORLD)
• o Migrating all QBO global cluster databases from US7ASCII to UTF8 character set
• o Spearheading migration of QBO Reporting Database from US7ASCII to UTF8 character set
• o Improving non-production stability and ensure environments are highly available to PD/QA engineers
• o Stabilizing the QBO production environment by reducing the number of JVMs in SD Datacenter
• o Fixing throttling issues on QBO production
• o Executing kick-off new initiatives to proactively avoid various occurring incidents
• o Carrying out improvements in on-going environment to ensure performance, up-time and avoid potential pitfalls over time
• o Heading various critical releases impacting the customers
• o Successfully worked on multiple potential problems to ensure that customers always have positive experience while using company applications
• o Leading, mentoring & guiding the team members in both technical & non-technical skills
• o Organizing monthly Knowledge Sharing Sessions
• o Participating in different innovation forums like CTOF, Techforum, Operations community, etc.

Aug 2006 – Oct 2008 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

• Lead and manage the OTO (iAS) and EBSO (11i), customization as per customer specifications
• Manage identity management and portal
• Lead the Oracle Application Server (9iAS, 10gAS,BPEL, J2EE setup, SOA) cloning activities for all the Oracle customers
• Lead the configuration and management of demantra for different set of customers
• Installing and configuring Hyperion, essbase, shared services
• Configuring and maintaining cluster ready services and real application cluster setups
• Manual cloning of oracle applications from production to development and test instances which involves single node, multi node and RAC and PCP environments
• Maintaining OTO (iAS) and EBSO (11i), customization as per customer specifications
• Application 11i integration with single sign on
• Setting up the Hyperion planning and FDM modules for the different customers

Feb 2005 – Jul 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad

• Upgraded the oracle applications from 11.5.7 to 11.5.10 CU2 on 4 nodes RAC database.
• Applying the maintenance pack on application tier, web tier and configurator tier
• Converting the 4-node RAC database from no archivelog mode to archivelog mode and vice-versa.
• Automated backup and recovery operations using Oracle Recovery Manager on a 3-node RAC environment.
• Created scripts that performs every day hot backup and weekly cold backup for the production 3 nodes RAC environment with the minimum downtime
• Created scripts that restores the database from the latest backup and recovers the database completely (complete and incomplete restoration and recovery).
• In case of disaster recovery issues, created the scripts that restores and recovers the database completely.
• Day to day support activities on oracle application instances as well Oracle databases that running for other applications

Apr 2000 – Feb 2005 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Worked with SQL Star International Ltd., India an ISO 9000:2000 company around 3 years as a Technical Manager. The job is to manage the database in house and impart training on various Oracle products like Oracle 8i, 9i and Oracle Developer 2000, 6i platform to students as well as corporate clients. Handled various corporate assignments for corporate giants like Oracle Software India Ltd. (OSIL), Hyderabad, Wipro Technologies, Hyderabad, General Electric, Hewlett Packard, GECIS, HCL Technologies and HSBC etc.…
• Role: Manager (Technical)
• Handled a team of 14 members, managing of the various scheduled task programs and assigning the different programs to the individual team members
• Effectively implement Quality Management System
• Imparting knowledge based programs related to core Java and java technologies tools like Jdeveloper to the team members
• Establish, review and improve the documented system of the Lab along with the Branch Manager
• Identify Opportunities for Continual Improvement and take effective, corrective and preventive action
• Encouraging and enabling team members to share what they have learned with colleagues.
• Preparing of weekly and monthly MIS reports
• Providing necessary support to the marketing team to generate more business.
• Providing support to the placement division to place the students to the different organizations
• Conducting cross-functional meeting to identify any issues pertaining to the different departments
• Managing project scope and change control and escalating issues where necessary
• Ensure the corporate customers are happy after the completion of the program