Innovative Solutions Engineer Advisor Sr offering 11+ years of expertise in Information Technology. Seasoned professional with background in full software development lifecycle. Quickly learns and masters new technologies while working in both team and self-directed settings.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
8
8
Certifications
Work History
Solutions Engineer Advisor Sr
Anthem
Richmond, VA
09.2020 - Current
Perform Pega infinity upgrades to latest versions 8.X with zero-downtime to avoid business impact. Also, develops python/shell scripts for health care framework upgrades.
Design and develop high level architecture for Pega applications following best practices to fulfill business requirements.
Define migration strategy to move Pega applications to AWS cloud and drives project all way to production successful go live.
Develop Hashicorp Terraform modules for various AWS cloud services to deploy infrastructure and platform smoothly.
Build and implement scalable production systems following best practices such as High availability and Fault tolerance.
Develop blue and green systems for seamless deployments and fail overs to support resiliency.
Build and configure CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins with GitHub and Bitbucket web-hooks to automate deployments by trigger actions.
Automate Business Intelligence Exchange reporting jobs to provide required data to users on time.
Develop docker images and YAML files to deploy and build environments in Kubernetes platforms(K8) such as Red Hat OpenShift and AWS EKS.
Perform system tunings, evaluate performance of applications, and address issues proactively.
Integrate and configure single sign on capabilities such as SiteMinder and ping federated servers to allow users login application via secured authentication link.
Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of system development efforts and recommend technologies to optimize cost and systems flexibility.
Collaborate with Technical Support Engineers to transition software features to production environment ensuring that deliverables meet application performance criteria, release standards, and ensures application and system stability.
Troubleshoot and identify root causes in production systems and help with recovery from outages.
Responsible for ensuring quality procedures related to project and following Pega guardrails.
Work with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
Technology Architect
Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S.Corporation
Richmond, VA
01.2016 - 09.2020
Successfully migrated 60+ Pega legacy applications into multiple cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
Upgraded Pega applications into latest versions 8.X with more sophisticated and best practices approach.
Developed terraform infrastructure as code modules to automate infrastructure deployments.
Implemented Jenkins CI/CD pipelines with web-hooks and GitHub actions for DevOps process.
Built scalable production systems following best practices such as high availability and fault tolerance.
Developed docker images and YAML files for deploying Pega applications into Kubernetes platforms such as RED HAT OpenShift, AWS EKS, PKS and AKS.
Integrated and configured single sign on capabilities to allow users login application via secured authentication link.
Provided great effort in diagnosing and identifying root causes in complex production outages and helped with recovery from outages.
Worked closely with customers, internal staff and other stakeholders to determine planning, implementation and integration of system-oriented projects.
Senior Pega Administrator
Vistronix Intelligence & Technology Solutions
Fort Collins, CO
02.2015 - 01.2016
Participated in installation, configuration and up-gradation of PEGA PRPC 4.X, 5.X, 6.X and 7.X.
Provided administration support for various middleware components.
Assisted in application code deployments and conducted performance tuning to maintain system sustainability.
Monitor logs and alerts, then drive actions to correct identified issues.
Configure tomcat application servers, apache web servers and server modules.
Ensure system uptime and scalability through monitoring and identified single point of failure.
Maintained user documentation in support central site for suppliers and address all major releases, minor enhancements or bug fixes.
Worked closely with development teams to ensure application system needs are met.
Software Engineer
Tech Mahindra
Atlanta, GA
03.2010 - 02.2015
Performed installation and up-gradation of PEGA PRPC 4.X, 5.X, 6.X and 7.X
Migrated code and deployed changes to higher environments.
Monitored logs and alerts, then drive actions to correct identified issues.
Tuned system parameters and garbage collection to provide favorable user experience.
Installed, up-graded and configured following application servers and web servers - Jboss & Tomcat & Apache
Evaluated system specifications, input/output processes, and worked on parameters for hardware/software compatibility.
Analyzed all aspects of existing infrastructure and recommended modifications which enhanced system reliability, availability, serviceability and suitability.
Education
Master of Science - Computers
Andhra University
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
05.2008 - 05.2010
Bachelor of Science - Maths, Physics And Computer Science
Andhra University
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
03.2005 - 03.2008
Skills
Pega PRPC
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Certification
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Timeline
PCEP Certified Entry Level Python Programmer
02-2021
Solutions Engineer Advisor Sr
Anthem
09.2020 - Current
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
06-2020
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
05-2020
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
03-2020
LXO-103 CompTIA Linux+ [Powered by LP1]
11-2016
Technology Architect
Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S.Corporation
01.2016 - 09.2020
LPI Linux Essentials
01-2016
Senior Pega Administrator
Vistronix Intelligence & Technology Solutions
02.2015 - 01.2016
Pega CSSA
02-2013
Pega CSA
10-2010
Software Engineer
Tech Mahindra
03.2010 - 02.2015
Master of Science - Computers
Andhra University
05.2008 - 05.2010
Bachelor of Science - Maths, Physics And Computer Science