Prasanna Narmeta

Blockchain: Commercializing digital applications on a proven tokenization platform*, delivering the components to create a scalable solution as needed.•

Identify, gather, analyze, and automate responses to key performance metrics, logs, and alerts.

• Helped clients with onboarding.

• Deployments on blockchains, post UAT migrations testing prior to prod.

• Handling communication and providing transparency on major site issues to the management team and the rest of the organization.

• Manage on-call rotations and provide inputs to your team and partners to sustain SLAs.

• Document root cause analysis reports and develop standard operating procedures.

• Cultivate a culture of feedback to ensure that teams and individuals are collaborative, purposeful, and high performing

• Perform application and stripes across troubleshooting to quickly resolve the issues per documented procedures.

• Collaborate with other leaders in the organization to ensure that daily production issues are addressed directly and implement timely metrics, and alerts.

• We have built all monitoring/alers from scratch to reflect new cloud migration .

• Reviewed monitoring components’ quality to assess conformance with tolerances and remove unacceptable products.

Environment: AWS , Opensearch, Dynatrace, Grafana, kubernetes, Jenkins, Github, Jiira,Confulence.

• Prepared detailed reports on updates to project specifications, progress, identify conflicts, and team activities
• Identify, gather, analyze, and automate responses to key performance metrics, logs, and alerts
• Handling communication and providing transparency on major site issues to the management team and the rest of the organization
• Manage on-call rotations and provide inputs to your team and partners to sustain SLAs
• Document root cause analysis reports and develop standard operating procedures
• Cultivate a culture of feedback to ensure that teams and individuals are collaborative, purposeful, and high performing
• Perform application and website troubleshooting to quickly resolve the issues per documented procedures
• Collaborate with other leaders in the organization to ensure that daily production issues are addressed directly and implement timely metrics, and alerts
• Established open and professional relationships with team members which helped resolve issues and conflicts quickly
• Reviewed monitoring components’ quality to assess conformance with tolerances and remove unacceptable products
• Worked effectively with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that elevated client-side experience and significantly improved overall functionality and performance
• Automated Batch files for Top clients through Streaming Lambda (Python) for watching the scheduler run DynamoDB tables
• Automated Vertical monitoring at all Levels (Security, System/Application health, Business functionalities, Database, Networking from Datadog, AWS CloudWatch
• Install and configured the unified AWS CloudWatch agent to push metrics and logs from an EC2 instance to CloudWatch
• Environment: JDK1.6, JBoss EAP, AWS CloudWatch/Agent, New Relic, Data Dog, Dynatrace, Grafana (Prometheus), Elastic APM, SiteScope, Splunk, Lambdas, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL Jenkins, Bitbucket, aha, Python, Zabbix, Interlink, Service on call, PagerDuty, Barracuda WAF,Kubernetes.

• Optum Financial Services business grew over a few years and their current infrastructure and application were not designed for that growth
• In 2019 the team decided to recreate more modern architecture using the public cloud (Azure), Domain driven architecture, Microservices, and Micro Frontend architecture
• As Part of this modernization effort, we build infrastructure from code using Terraforms, and Ansible
• Each terraform script had remote state storage so that every time we make changes we don't rely on the states of the infrastructure on the local machine
• Responsibilities
• Automate application build and delivery using CICD Pipeline which was deployed in a public cloud
• Created a GIT repository on-premises to store code and configuration
• Troubleshoot build and release job failures, resolve, and work with engineering on resolution
• Develop and maintain application tools that build, deploy, automate, and streamline the CI/CD processes
• Integrated webhooks to auto-trigger the build in Jenkins
• Created Jenkins config and pipelines to build and deploy apps
• Applications were built using docker using the maven plugin and Jenkins we build the docker images and pushed it to ACR
• Used helm charts to manage Kubernetes manifest files to deploy apps to the AKS cluster
• Integrated approval process in the pipeline
• Integrated Flow dock, email notification on success and failures
• Environments: Java, Mavens Ansible, Linux, Azure, OpenStack, Shell/Perl Scripts, Python, GIT, Jenkins, Oracle, Splunk, Sonar, Fortify, Dynatrace, New Relic, ServiceNow, Zabbix, Kubernetes.

• Optum Benefits API is a platform based on microservices for consumer experiences designed to drive health ownership
• It will enable consumers to make better experiences and decisions regarding their benefits, health and wellness, and healthcare finances
• As a Support consultant I lead the projects such as the following
• Keep customers informed of progress during the issue lifecycle and make follow-up calls or communications in a timely manner
• Assist team members and provide support and solutions to customer queries to meet company objectives
• Maintain updated knowledge of company products and services to better provide customer support and service solutions
• Accessed documented procedures tools and manuals to provide support on company-supplied hardware and equipment
• Gathered customer and technology information to determine technical support level; elevated calls to appropriate support level as necessary
• Accurately processed and documented call transactions using tracking software
• Provided first-level technical support to end-users on proprietary software and applications including installation basic usage and appropriate service level to warranty
• Performed troubleshooting techniques over the phone or via web messenger to identify and resolve issues
• Established patterns for reoccurring issues and provides input to development teams
• Used Self containerization and deployed independent microservices using Docker on open shift v3
• Configured the build pipeline Automated all the build, deploy, and security run scripts along with unit testing and integration testing with Jenkins
• Supported the Implemented elastic search caching and search functionality for the API data and integrated the elastic cluster with the transport client
• Used Dynatrace and Splunk to create dashboards and alert system for effective monitoring of live traffic
• Involved in deploying applications using JBoss and Redhat OpenShift(v2/v3) in prod and non-prod environments
• Worked closely with build environments to solve application and build issues
• 1.7, MySQL, Spring 4.x, JBoss EAP, RedHat OpenShift, IBM Web Sphere 6.x, Apache Felix, Eclipse, Hibernate 3.x, JPA, JUnit, Cucumber, Log 4j, Tortoise SVN, Git, Toad, Maven, Apache Kafka, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Grafana (Prometheus), Splunk, Dynatrace,Kubernetes.

• Wrote documentation for requirements analysis, design specifications, user's guides, installation guides, custom training materials, or project work plan Conceptualization of new requirements from customers, user surveys and competitors
• Resolved production defects/errors, root cause analysis, production release deployments, production deployment validations, review service level agreements (SLA's) and deployed applications for end users
• Responsible for performing L1 & L2 activities like troubleshooting of incidents, working trouble tickets and completing escalation management
• Prepared Requirement Specifications for the new features of the products.

• Participated in gathering requirements from clients and analysts
• Participated in creating sequence diagrams, class diagrams and business rules using IBM RSA and RAD tools
• Participated in creating web UI using XHTML, JSF Facelets and Tablibs
• Created and used custom validators for web UI
• Used Spring framework for dependency injection
• Participated in creating EJB entities
• Used Message Queue to send/receive messages
• Used Message Driven Beans to subscribe notifications
• (Security_Acct_Exception_Notification, Batch_Failure, etc)
• Participated in coding JUnit and Selenium scripts for unit testing
• Developed on Selenium IDE and creating scripts in selenium-RC by using java
• Developed Junit Tests in a development environment
• Performed Smoke and Functional testing on every build of the application
• Performed in all phases of Test Life cycle from test planning to defect tracking and managing defect lifecycle
• 3.0, JSF 2.1, Spring3.0, JBoss Seam Framework 2.2, JUnit 4.0, Selenium 2.4API, MQ, Oracle 11g,PL/SQL, POJO, Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS), LDAP/Site Minder, SOA, JBoss, XHTML, Hibernate, Websphere Application server 7.0.0.15, RAD 7.5, J2EE5, IBM Rational Jazz Team Server v1.0 and WebFocus.

• Department of Labor and Industry – Pennsylvania
• Reviewed Use Cases with BAs
• Reviewed user interface specs
• Participated in creating XML documents for the JET tool
• Participated in the mapping of Hibernate XML documents
• Participated in the coding of business objects (BO), data access services(DAS), functional manager (FM), and mediators
• Participated in modifying the Dependency Injection (DI) XML document
• Add User Interface (UI) permissions to the portlets
• Attended training classes to get an overview of the IBM framework
• Participated in coding the HTML, and JSP with accessibility and portlet pages by adhering to
• JSR-168 framework standards
• Participated in writing test scripts for BO, DAS, and FM
• Participated in editing validation XML document and messages properties files for the portlets
• Worked with Rational tools such as ClearCase for version control (VCS) and ClearQuest for defect tracking
• Created consumer for web services using webMethods developer tool
• Created provider services using webMethods developer tool and exposed WSDL to the consumers(Java application)
• Created flow services, documents and mappings
• Created flow services to read XML documents and extracted required information and persisted into Oracle DB using webMethods JDBC adapter services
• Created flow services to put/get messages to/from JMS queues using WmPublic services
• Environment : JDK 1.5, JSP 2.0, SPRING 2.0, Log4j, JSR168 portlets, Hibernate 3.0, Junit, HTML, XML, JavaScript, Oracle 10g, Oracle developer, Rational ClearCase/ClearQuest 7.0, RAD 7.0, IBM CTE, BEA Aqualogic portal v6.5, Websphere Application server v6.0/6.1, webMethods v8.2.