Avinash Ibbandi

Leadership Skills:

• Managerial competence: Leading the team, providing clear guidance, support, and motivate to perform at their best ability.
• Leverage: Enabling the team to evolve as tools led, solution driven team. Evaluate the right tech that align with the org goals. Identifying tools that can streamline processes, automate tasks, empower app teams and reduce manual processes.
• Evaluate Roadmap: Meet with the team every quarter. Capture the progress of the projects and prioritize accordingly. Keeping the focus-centered.
• Projects and Priorities: Managing resources, assess, and assigning the right individual to projects. Creating opportunities of learning, exploration.
• One x One: Meet individual team members. Listen, understand their needs, concerns and share constructive feedback to stir them in the right direction.
• Evaluate hiring, firing, and promotions requests.
• Problem Solving Skills + Decision-Making : Ability to identify problems and resolve them quickly. Taking critical decisions turned out to be beneficial for the organization. Empowering the team by delegating such tasks enhances their efficiency.

Team Development:

• Constantly looking for growth and development of the team members. Providing opportunities for learning, skill development, advancement and unlocking their potential.
• Domain Expansion: Encourage team members to discover diverse areas of interest to broaden their knowledge and skill set, fostering a more diverse skill base.
• Preparation and Presentation: Encouraging team members to engage in mock sessions, demos and presentations strengthen their soft skills and confidence while allowing reflection on their work accomplishments.
• Splunk Conf, Splunk for newcomers and Trainings: Leveraging the benefits of the Splunk conference by enrolling in classes that directly supported our infrastructure requirements. This was a valuable learning experience. Organizing sessions on Splunk basics for new team members and other teams aimed to create synergies. Additionally, advocating for team members to enroll in training courses was part of continuous learning and development.

Experiences

• Azure Kubernetes and Istio upgrades.
• Akamai SPA Configurations for Covid Vaccine on Pharmacy - Configuration of Visitor Prioritization Cloudlet for Pharmacy. Due to high traffic, mgmt had required to build SPA for pharmacy pages. VP Policies, Desktop & Mobile, Pharmacy, Covid.
• Spearheaded Torbit Ratelimiting configurations for everyday and event based. Build and tune Rate limiting rules on torbit to support everyday traffic. Based on the event simulation prepare additional versions for higher workloads.
• Expanded experience in Configuration and Implementation of Akamai Property Manager, GTM, Cashing, Redirects and Failover logic.
• Experience in JBOSS, Apache, ATG and Linux administration.
• Experience in build and support for E-commerce infra environment with OneOps.
• Experience in handling multi component infrastructure includes Akamai, F5, Torbit, Aks & Splunk.
• Revamped the Splunk architecture and implemented alterations to ensure seamless operation in a production environment.
• Experience in Administration/Maintenance of Source Control Management Systems such as GIT. Created tags and branches, fixed merge issues and administered software repositories.
• Experience in Network Management like DNS, ftp, SSL, SSH, HTTPS, SFTP, and system troubleshooting skills.
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• Involved in delivering end-to-end integrated platform solutions.
• Domain experience: Comprehensive business knowledge in E-commerce.
• Achieved disaster recovery implementations and participated in 24/7 on-call rotation policy with other team members.
• Ability to lead technical discussions and projects with Atlassian products like JIRA and Confluence.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, proven team player with an analytical bent to problem solving and delivering under high stress environment.
• Good communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and also perform as part of a team
• Provide quick solutions for major outages..

• Configured caching and redirect rules in Akamai configuration manager.
• Installed, configured and administered Jboss Application Server 4.X, Apache webserver 2.X.
• Responsible for administration and monitoring of jboss server across environments on Red Hat Linux 3.4..
• Migrated JBOSS Application Server 4.X to 5.X.
• Performed J2EE application deployment and administration including JAR, WAR, and EAR files.
• Configured and administered of server.xml and web.xml in Jboss Server 4.x.
• Responsible for Load balancing and performance tuning for various app servers.
• Created and Configured Data Sources for database connectivity and JMS resources.
• Installed and configured SSL certificates for Apache web server in various environments..
• Developed shell script to monitor the logs for any exceptions or errors performing regular health checks in production environments.
• Prepared and maintained detailed design and operational documentation for production systems.
• Coordinated and worked closely with Red Hat Jboss support team to diagnosis and issue resolution.

• Installed and configured IBM WebSphere Application Server and Oracle WebLogic Server to host banking applications and services.
• Configured JMS (Java Message Service) queues and topics for reliable messaging between applications.
• Manage deployment of new versions of banking applications and updates to middleware components.
• Coordinated with development teams to schedule deployment windows and perform testing to ensure compatibility and stability.
• Monitor CPU, memory, and disk usage on middleware servers using monitoring tools like Nagios.
• Optimize JVM settings and thread pools to improve application performance and responsiveness.
• Configured SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption for communication between middleware components and external systems.
• Implemented access controls and user authentication mechanisms using LDAP integration for centralized user management.
• Set up alerts for abnormal resource usage, application errors, and performance degradation using monitoring tools like Nagios.
• Implemented backup policies for middleware configurations, application deployments.
• Stay informed about security vulnerabilities and patches released by middleware vendors like IBM and Oracle.
• Schedule and apply patches to middleware servers during maintenance windows to address security vulnerabilities and software bugs.
• Document middleware configurations, deployment procedures, and troubleshooting guides using tools.
• Share knowledge and best practices with team members through internal wikis, training sessions, and knowledge sharing meetings.
• Forecast resource requirements based on historical usage patterns and projected growth of banking transactions.
• Scale middleware infrastructure by adding additional servers and storage resources to accommodate increased demand during peak periods.