PUNEETH KUMAR PADMANABHA
Valley Center,USA
Summary
Results-driven Full-Time Staff Systems Engineer with a strong background in supporting organizational operations and optimizing team efficiency. Proven track record in managing daily tasks and contributing to strategic initiatives. Skilled in effective communication and problem-solving. Seeking a position where I can leverage my interpersonal, experience, organizational, and management skills, along with my educational background, to collaborate effectively with diverse individuals possessing unique expertise and skills.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Staff Systems Engineer/Application Operations Engineer
Intuit
01.2014 - Current
- Help to design, implement, and maintain ~15k servers for Intuit’s leading commercial software products (includes both VMs and Bare metals)
- Work with internal infrastructure support teams and application teams to keep applications running, open ACLs, add storage, and interface with the virtualization layer
- Provide access to servers, assist in patching servers, fixing vulnerabilities, and addressing hardware failures
- Contribute to the improvement of service delivery methods and tools
- Experience with Chef -Automation which includes writing cookbooks for OS/App Layers
- Monitoring of servers using site scope, spectrum and Wavefront (AWS)
- Automation of internal projects (On call automation tool, swap file creation, Alerting, SSL Renewals/creation across the BU etc) using Python and Bash scripting Languages
- Working closely with cross platforms teams (Database, Developers) to address the existing Pre-Production and Production issues
- Experience with FS networks, VMware Virtualization (vSphere5.5), Venafi SSL certs renewal/creation helps me to solve day-to-day work duties
- On-call rotation (12/7) for identifying/solving/RCA production server issues
- Working with cross team platforms to design, implement, provisioning of servers that involves end-to-end delivery including monitoring the newly developed application servers
- Migrated the existing company hosting servers/applications to the AWS Cloud using automated CloudFormation templates
- Experience with the LAMP stack installation/configuration on Linux systems
- Experience with windows Active Directory and GPO to create a security level to access the servers
- Work with Intuit Cloud Operations team to address and help Intuit Developers AWS issues
- Handle Intuit wide Incidents, Change and Problem Management principles as part of Intuit Operations Center (IOC) team
- Automation within IOC team to help internal team during P1/P2 escalations by creating internal Slack channel to collaborate effectively
- Conduct sessions within team and outside other Business units on the AWS and Incident management topics
Systems Engineer Intern
The Walt Disney Company
01.2013 - 01.2014
- Designing and implementing computer systems, software and networks includes defining complex system requirements, determining system specifications, processes and working parameters
- Working with Architects to determine the system flow and Determining the VM's and Physical servers required for new projects including SAN requirements
- Experience with Bootstrapping and Patching new servers (VM’s and Physical) and VIP’s
- Experience with postfix, NFS, SAN, IMAP, SMTP server configuration
- Experience with Linux commands (ps, grep, ssh, nmap), helps in server build and configuration
- Experience with Custom software development, automation and troubleshooting
- Experience with CHEF -Automation which includes writing cookbooks for Apache Traffic Server (ATS), Active MQ, Apache Tomcat and other tools which builds and configure with a single command
- Experience with service desk manager processing requests like firewall, DB rollout, server builds
- Experience with creation of Architecture Diagram (AID) using Microsoft VISIO
- Handling internal projects for WDPRO (Disney) using Python, PHP, Bash scripting
- Troubleshooting and coordinating with Senior System Engineer's to solve the issues
- Installation and configuration of SMTP, IMAP, ATS, SiteMinder and other variety of servers
- Experience with Big F5 networks which includes pool creation for VIP’s and irule configuration
Web Developer Intern
Geoffiti
07.2012 - 12.2012
- Develops, designs, produces and codes new web pages for individual departments and/or programs Using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP
- Worked on Word press to develop and modify certain pages based on client requirements
- Develop a module which includes accepting a CVS file from the user desktop and separating a certain domain name, allowing user to download a file
- Testing all web page modules before releasing into the market
- Developed many websites including mayor “Bob Foster” and downtown websites of Long Beach which received highest rank in Long Beach
Software Engineer/Project Trainee
Infosys Technologies Limited
09.2008 - 03.2009
- Assigned as a Mainframe developer for a project called ‘Automation of Infy Bank’
- The project was based on the process involved in creating and managing customer accounts
- Worked on CICS for the front end and on DB2for the back end
- Developed front end using COBOL language
- Developed a Balance Enquiry and Mini statement using COBOL- CICS language
- Written DB2 queries to fetch details of Balance Enquiry and Mini statement modules
- Generated test cases along with having the responsibility for the testing of a part of ‘Automation of Infy Bank project
Education
Master’s - Computer Science
California State University, Long Beach
Long Beach, California05.2014
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science
VidyaVardhaka College of Engineering
02.2009
Skills
- Cloud Technologies: AWS, Azure (Basic), GCP
- Container Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes
- Database Programming Languages: SQL, MYSQL2019, DynamoDB
- Database Systems: SQL Server2012/2019
- Virtualization: VMware vSphere55, vSphere60
- Hardware: Dell, HP, MAC
- Web Languages: HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, PHP, Python (intermediate)
- Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment tool: Jenkins
- Infrastructure as a service: Chef, Ansible, Terraform
- Monitoring Tools: SiteScope, Spectrum, Graphite, Nagios, Splunk, Wavefront
- Operating Systems: RHEL7/8, MS Windows98/2000/XP/Vista/7/2012/2019
- Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, NAT, DHCP, HTTP, Ethernet, FTP, SMTP/POP3, IMAP, SNMP, Telnet, OSPF, DNS, VIP etc
- Self motivation
Training
- Sap ABAP Training, Sap tree Technologies PVT LTD, India – July2010- Aug2010
- Python Specialization from Michigan University – July2016
- Docker and Kubernetes Training (Linux Academy) – Jan2019
- VSphere5.5 virtualization training – Jan2017
- Apache Cassandra, Feb2016
- Veritas Training – Feb2016
- Red Hat JBoss Application Administration I(JB248) – Sept2017
- Microsoft SQL Server2014/2019 Clustering Training – August2020
Hobbies and Interests
Photography., Watching/playing cricket on weekends., Playing around with lab setups like VMware, RHEL6/7/8 etc, Learning new technologies with the help of acloud guru subscription.
Certification
- AWS Solution Architect Associate certification – Feb2017
- AWS Sysops Associate Certification – Feb2018
- AWS Certified Developer – May2018
- AWS Certified Devops Engineer – Professional – Feb2019
- VSphere5.5 virtualization – Jan2017
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator RHCSA (RHEL7) – May2016
- Red Hat Certified Engineer RHCE (RHEL7) – Dec2016
- AWS Security Specialty – July2020
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ900 – Dec2020
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) – April2021
- Microsoft Azure Administrator AZ104 – ETA: August2021
- Data Science Program using Python (6 months) – September2023
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) – January2024
Accomplishments
Achieved 5/10 exceeded ratings from the past working experience within Intuit
Languages
English
Full Professional
Interests
- Cooking
- Team Sports
- Camping
- Road Trips
Timeline
Staff Systems Engineer/Application Operations Engineer
Intuit
01.2014 - Current
Systems Engineer Intern
The Walt Disney Company
01.2013 - 01.2014
Web Developer Intern
Geoffiti
07.2012 - 12.2012
Software Engineer/Project Trainee
Infosys Technologies Limited
09.2008 - 03.2009
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science
VidyaVardhaka College of Engineering
Master’s - Computer Science
California State University, Long Beach
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