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Pradeep Kulkarni

Herndon,VA

Summary

Accomplished DevOps and Application Support engineer with over 25 years of experience in application management and development. Possesses skills in team leadership, problem solving, and technical reporting. Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience

Work History

DevOps Engineer – Platform and Infrastructure

Freddie Mac
McLean, VA
01.2022 - Current
  • Responsible for review and approval of all deployments for AWS Platform and Infrastructure changes
  • Established Quality Gates review process to ensure Security vulnerabilities and risk are addressed timely.
  • Established goals for the organization on operational quality metrics and generated reports to management on monthly basis
  • Configured, managed, and monitored cloud-based services such as AWS EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS using Terraform and Ansible.
  • Established SOPs for the cloud based application change review and CI/CD pipeline to address any compliancy issues
  • Member of the Resiliency and Major Incident management.

L3 Lead, Multifamily

Freddie Mac
McLean, VA
09.2013 - 01.2022
  • Support lead Multifamily Legacy and Cloud Native Applications
  • Lead a team of 14 L3 support team for the operational support for the Multifamily applications
  • Automation of monitoring and alerting to improve the quality of application support
  • Identified recurring incidents and worked on break fixes, infrastructure improvements, redesign of the systems for improved availability
  • Reduction of major incidents for both Digital and Legacy applications by analysis (RCA)
  • Developed DevOps framework for the Digital teams to follow, backlog items tracking
  • Conducted daily Agile stand-up meetings to plan and prioritize incident resolution to effectively reduced MTTR and MTTE for Multifamily applications
  • Worked with Digital teams for the Digital Transformation effort by providing Operational support and SOPs for day-to-day operations

QRM Project Implementation

Freddie Mac
McLean, VA
02.2011 - 08.2013
  • Provided day-to-day project contact/interactions for the client (expectations, communications, escalation of production issues, etc.) via status calls and email notifications
  • Worked closely with business domain experts to assess various business problems and patterns, defining, both broadly and specifically, technology enablement appropriate to the scope and scale of the business problem
  • Worked on development of interfaces, scheduling and vendor installation of Quantitative Risk Management (QRM) product and maintained processes to manage scope throughout the project life cycle
  • Worked on the design and development of Pipeline QRM jobs scheduling in production which resulted in automation of the scripted processes.
  • Analyzed data to identify potential risks and opportunities for improvement.

Production Support for IC&M Cash Desk Applications

Freddie Mac
McLean, VA
09.2004 - 08.2012
  • SME for CashDesk applications, Net Position Monitor and Centralized Pooling System
  • Provided technical support for production operations, troubleshooting issues with existing systems.
  • Proactive in identifying problems and providing resolutions to issues on time
  • Implemented enhancements to NPM application as per business requirements.

Sr. Consultant (Acquisition Reporting Database System)

Fannie Mae
Herndon, VA
01.2002 - 01.2004
  • Involved in development of reporting tools functional enhancements, back-end process changes, scheduling and production support for Acquisitions Reporting Database (ARDB) system
  • Production Support for acquisitions cash delivery and reporting class-I systems
  • Developed Portfolio Investment Business (PIB) application to extract daily contract information from ARDB and transmit to portfolio system for processing
  • Modified C and C++ code and related stored procedures to handle additional MBS Pool information to process in ARDB
  • Developed stored procedures to query the database and generate reports for the business users using contracts information from CATS database and ARDB.

Senior Software Engineer (Back Office)

FolioFn
VA
01.2001 - 01.2002
  • Responsible for back-office application support troubleshooting and maintenance
  • Primary resource for eGPS (Global Portfolio System) application development and functional enhancements
  • Designed and Developed fail over logic across systems to ensure reliability and continuity of operation in processing transactions in production using eGPS for folios (Basket of stocks)
  • Proactive analysis and troubleshooting of production issues for the back office related system
  • Coordinated development effort involving different development teams to automate DTC security reconciliation and transaction processing system.

Senior Systems Engineer (Mail Gateway Operations)

America Online
Reston, VA
01.1999 - 01.2001
  • Developed software package to mail traffic across all the mail relays and store data in a table per minute basis and also to use sum the data per hour for graphically displaying mail traffic for analyzing load on each relay
  • Production Support of Mail gateway servers applications, spam filtering applications and monitoring applications
  • Developed PERL application to detect bulk mails on the Internet mail relays and developed tools to analyze using SMTP protocols
  • Used mail heuristics to analyze mail to detect Spam mail and reroute mail to relays in real time
  • This application effectively controlled Spam mail being delivered to members and saved system resources and cost of delivery

Senior Programmer/Analyst (Investment Accounting System)

T Rowe Price Investments
Baltimore, MD
01.1997 - 01.1999
  • Developed Web based Online Error Logs/Data display for the users and production support group to analyze Closed Market Processing (CMP), which is used as Record Keeping System in T Rowe Price
  • Involved in Data Migration from Legacy system to new accounting system using Business Objects, custom code developed in C , C++ and Perl
  • Responsible for performance tuning of database scripts, load balancing and replication steps.
  • Responsible for supporting the production jobs during overnight processing for $160 billion record keeping system called Global Portfolio System (GPS).

Tech Lead (Communication Services)

Hughes Information Tech. System
MD
01.1995 - 01.1997
  • Designed and implemented Directory Naming Services Framework using DCE/OODCE on Sun Solaris using C++ language
  • Developed Client/Server security framework using Kerberos Security APIs as part of Infrastructure services reuse group
  • Responsible for defining the architecture using DFS as distributed file system infrastructure for the project
  • As lead, I was involved in various aspects of project in design and implementation using Rational tools, C++ and Rogue Wave template classes.

Gold Cash Pricing: Re-engineering Project

Freddie Mac
McLean, VA
  • Provided day-to-day project contact/interactions for the development team (outsourced) (requirement walk thru session, design reviews and communications etc.) via status calls and email notifications
  • Worked on development for interfaces, scheduling and vendor installation of GCP product and maintained processes to manage scope throughout the project life cycle
  • Provided production support for the GCP application run on clustered Web logic 10.3 servers using Big IP and entity beans used for processing the requests in real time.

Education

Masters - Electrical Engineering -

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Bachelors- Electrical Engineering -

Karnataka University

Skills

  • ServiceNow
  • Cloud Platform Support (AWS)
  • CI/CD, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins
  • Kubernetes, Platform Security
  • JAVA
  • Sybase
  • Autosys
  • J2EE
  • Weblogic 61
  • XML
  • EJB
  • CGI
  • OMT
  • Rational tools
  • TCP/IP
  • Sybase Adaptive Server

Publications

SOFTTEST: Verification Tool for Fault Tolerant Systems, Pradeep Kulkarni, KN Narahari and Dr. K Karunakar, CONSEG’91: International Conference on Software Engineering, Bangalore, India, October 1991

Timeline

DevOps Engineer – Platform and Infrastructure

Freddie Mac
01.2022 - Current

L3 Lead, Multifamily

Freddie Mac
09.2013 - 01.2022

QRM Project Implementation

Freddie Mac
02.2011 - 08.2013

Production Support for IC&M Cash Desk Applications

Freddie Mac
09.2004 - 08.2012

Sr. Consultant (Acquisition Reporting Database System)

Fannie Mae
01.2002 - 01.2004

Senior Software Engineer (Back Office)

FolioFn
01.2001 - 01.2002

Senior Systems Engineer (Mail Gateway Operations)

America Online
01.1999 - 01.2001

Senior Programmer/Analyst (Investment Accounting System)

T Rowe Price Investments
01.1997 - 01.1999

Tech Lead (Communication Services)

Hughes Information Tech. System
01.1995 - 01.1997

Gold Cash Pricing: Re-engineering Project

Freddie Mac

Masters - Electrical Engineering -

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Bachelors- Electrical Engineering -

Karnataka University

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