Prasad Gundlapalli

Having 11+ years of IT experience, to work in a globally competitive environment that would yield the twin benefits of job satisfaction and a steady professional growth

Around 12 years of Experience as a Middleware and DevOps Engineer with tools like IBM WebSphere Application Server, JBoss Application Server, Tomcat, Internet Information Services, IBM MQ and IBM BPM Administration at the expert level in DEV, QA,STG,TRN,PROD & DR Environments and Enhancement on UNIX (LINUX, AIX) and Windows Platforms. Good experience with Apache, IHS, HAproxy and IBM Integration Service Bus Also have good experience on DevOps tools like Jenkins, Docker, Git, Git Hub and monitoring tools like Splunk. Having good exposure in IBM Security Access Management Tool & F5 Load Balancer Having good exposure in Docker admin activities Setting up the Jenkins pipeline Performed GitHub admin activities Having good experience as Windows administrator Installed, configured, and administered Microsoft IIS (6/7/8/10) on Windows Server environments. Managed websites, application pools, virtual directories, and bindings (HTTP/HTTPS). Configured and maintained SSL certificates (CSR creation, installation, renewal). Monitored IIS performance using Event Viewer, Performance Monitor, and IIS logs. Troubleshot web application issues related to 503/500 errors, application pool crashes, and authentication failures. Implemented and managed authentication and authorization (Windows, Basic, Anonymous). Performed application pool recycling, tuning memory limits, and timeout settings for optimal performance. Deployed and supported ASP.NET and .NET Core applications on IIS. Configured URL Rewrite, Request Filtering, and IP Restrictions for security. Managed backup and restore of IIS configurations using AppCmd and IIS Manager. Coordinated with developers for application deployments, configuration changes, and issue resolution. Applied Windows updates and security patches related to IIS servers. Ensured compliance with security best practices and organizational standards. Supported production, staging, and development environments. Documented IIS configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps. Responsibilities included Installation, Configuration, Integration and Maintenance in WebSphere MQ. Automated IIS website, application pool, and server management using PowerShell (WebAdministration module). Developed PowerShell scripts to start, stop, recycle, and monitor IIS application pools to ensure high availability. Created automated scripts for IIS health checks, including website status, app pool state, and service monitoring. Implemented scheduled PowerShell jobs to recycle application pools during off-peak hours, reducing downtime. Built PowerShell scripts to detect and auto-restart failed IIS services and application pools. Used PowerShell to create, configure, and deploy IIS websites and web applications. Automated binding, port assignment, and SSL certificate verification using PowerShell. Scripted physical path, authentication, and app pool mapping for multiple IIS websites. Performed bulk website and app pool operations across multiple IIS servers. Used PowerShell to perform mass IIS administration across production and non-production servers. Created standardized IIS build and configuration scripts for new servers. Reduced manual work by automating repetitive IIS administrative tasks using PowerShell. Managed application pool identities and service accounts using PowerShell. Automated permission validation on website folders and IIS components. Verified and managed SSL bindings and HTTPS configurations via Power Used PowerShell to perform mass IIS administration across production and non-production servers. Created standardized IIS build and configuration scripts for new servers. Reduced manual work by automating repetitive IIS administrative tasks using PowerShell. Installed MQ V7 and V8 on various UNIX based Servers (AIX, Solaris and HP-UX) and Windows based Operating Systems. Applied Refresh Packs and Fix Packs to upgrade MQ Versions. Maintained over 300 Queue Managers on over 200 Servers. Having good exposure in writing the Shell scripts. Built DEV Environments from scratch and followed through to TEST and Successful PRODUCTION Deployment. Developed complex build, test, provision, secure and deployment systems and providing support to a large community of developers and testers Expertise Knowledge in version control system such as GitHub,SVN Worked exclusively on making applications more scalable and highly available system Managing Integration Nodes, Integration Servers, Queue Managers and it’s objects on all Environments(DEV,QA, UAT & PROD) Involved on deploying the EAR Files in DEV,SIT & UAT Environments Taking care of all the release and deployment activity on different environment for all the Banking applications. Configured and Enabled the Global Security System WAS Administration for console users and console Groups using Active Directory Server as a LDAP and Tivoli Directory User Registry. Enabled the Single Sign on for the WebSphere Application Servers Configuring the Docker Containers and creating Docker files for different Environments. Experience with Apache/Tomcat, Load Balancer (Apache, Nginx, and HAproxy) and expertise in making configuration changes. Exposed to all aspects of Software development life cycle (SDLC) such as Analysis, Planning, and Developing, Testing and Implementing post production analysis of the projects. Installed and Configured Jenkins for automation implementation in all the application environments and making sure it follows all the standard procedures of the Application SDLC. Created a pipeline builds in Jenkins to automate the CI/CD. Monitoring each service deployment and validating the services across all environments. Create and Maintain GIT Branching, Merging and tagging across each production releases and perform builds using Jenkins Continuous Integration. Setting up the automation environment for Application team if necessary and help them through the process of build and release automation. Manage the Source code to have latest version of code available from production releases. Started with Agile transformation and took it up to Continuous Integration, with great focus on Automate from Commit to Cloud. Experience on installing Fix packs for WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.x/8.x on multiple Operating Systems. Experienced in deploying applications in WAR, JAR and EAR formats on WebSphere, Liberty standalone servers and clusters. Experience in implementing Load balancing to support high availability and scalable web farms involving large-scale enterprise applications. Configured database resources like JDBC providers, Data sources and security resources like JAAS authentication (J2C) aliases in order to provide connectivity to oracle, DB2. Proficiency in creating, configuring and administrating profiles, clusters, nodes, node agents and node groups for WebSphere Application Server. Experienced in defining WebSphere resources such as JDBC providers, data sources, MQ Queue connection factories, Queue destinations and Message driven bean listeners Involved in troubleshooting at of Development, Testing, UAT and Production Environment Strong Administration Skills on IBM WebSphere Application Server Scheduling System-Monitoring activities in CRON daemon on UNIX for web applications. Analyzing the Thread and Heap dumps and provide assistance to application team. Provided 24/7 support for all applications.

• IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.0 Network Deployment, Core Administration
• ITIL Foundation 2011
• IBM Websphere MQ V8.0
• Splunk Administrator
• JBOSS EAP7.1 Administrator

• IBM Websphere MQ
• IBM BPM
• DevOps
• IVR Genesys Technologies
• JBOSS Application Server
• IIS