Akshatha Ramachandra

Integration Project Overview:

1. Integrated Vocalink services (acquired by Mastercard) into Mastercard's ecosystem, aligning with its standards.
2. The project involves deploying five different products globally for banking clients.

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Collaborated with the product-building team to deploy products on Bare Metal VMs.
2. Utilized tools like Chef Objects, Chef Habitat, and Chef Automate for configuration management.
3. Managed Jenkins pipelines for building and deploying applications.
4. Migrated and configured code from Vocalink GitHub to Mastercard’s Bitbucket environment, ensuring compatibility.
5. Automated deployments using Jenkins, Maven, SonarQube, Checkmarx, and Flyway for quality and security checks.
6. Built and updated Chef Habitat packages for deployments using Jenkins jobs.
7. Performed smoke and regression testing post-deployment to ensure application stability.

Administered Linux systems across Ubuntu, CentOS, and SuSE environments with a focus on scripting in Bash and Python.

Scrum Master and Release Management:

1. Played an additional role as Scrum Master, conducting stand-ups and managing Agile ceremonies.
2. Created and reviewed features and epics in Rally, ensuring alignment with release plans.
3. Coordinated with stakeholders for release management and maintenance activities.

• Engineered and sustained highly available cloud services on AWS with Terraform, Chef, Jenkins.
• Configured, upgraded, installed, and troubleshot WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Application Server.
• Adopted new technologies to contribute to all phases of story tasks including design, coding, testing, CI/CD, and deployment.
• Increased transparency across teams through JIRA and Confluence integration.
• Hands-on expertise with K8s/container networking, including CNIs and network policies.
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Specialized in Python, Linux, and Tomcat with a focus on building highly scalable and available systems.

Proficient in log analysis, error debugging, security management, and configuring databases including SQL and NoSQL.

Experienced with testing automation frameworks in Agile development using Scrum practices.