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SANTOSH DANIEL

Dallas,TX

Summary

Accomplished information technology professional with over 17 years of experience, excelling in leadership, team management, DevOps and the delivery of innovative solutions across a diverse technology landscape. Specialized in AWS and Azure cloud platforms, with a particular emphasis on developing secure Financial, E-commerce and consumer-facing applications. Proficient in software architecture, design, and development, including the establishment of CI/CD pipelines for diverse applications. Expertise lies in Microservices architecture, container technology and Kubernetes.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud Architect

1010data
07.2019 - Current
  • Migration of enterprise customers with several terabytes of data from datacenter to cloud (AWS/AZURE) with 0 downtime migrations
  • Reducing the overall infrastructure cost by 40%
  • Improved performance of the application by design/architecture/implementation of cloud native solutions
  • Cloud cost reporting and governance
  • Automation of Infrastructure as code for Azure env (Terraform), developed python application for single click k8s environment creation/maintenance
  • Re-architecture how application gets build and deployed
  • Moved application from manual build and push to continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline) using bitbucket/Jenkins pipeline with various deployment strategies deploying to Kubernetes clusters saving several resource time and time to verify
  • Development of backup, disaster & recovery, High availability, proving and satisfying the different RPO and RTO for various retails customers
  • Setting up of Express Route in Azure, Direct Connect for transferring several TB for migration and for hybrid architecture
  • Production infrastructure support, hotfixes on production applications, Troubleshooting infrastructure issues
  • Incident management and finding long-term solutions
  • Collaborating with distributed team all over the globe
  • Configured AWS/AZURE account for governance and security and cost/billing reporting
  • Integrated DOME9 and Cloud Health
  • Fixed all critical/high security assessment and improved the security by 20%.

Technology Lead Java / Cloud Engineer

Synapse Group Inc
01.2016 - 07.2019
  • Responsible for delivery and support of ecommerce platforms
  • Incorporated PayPal payment integration into the platform in a short duration which lead to 7% increase in conversation rate
  • Led the migration of online applications to AWS cloud
  • This involved redesign and architecture of consumer facing applications for high availability, low latency and autoscaling using various AWS services
  • Created microservice application with no downtime deployments using Ec2, S3, Jenkins and AWS CodeDeploy
  • Architected ecommerce platform to be highly available, scalable using AWS CloudFront, ELB, EC2, Elastic Cache, SES, Aurora and S3 services
  • Implemented real time monitoring of the consumer sites to minimize impact of any downtimes using New Relic APM and synthetic monitoring
  • Delivered real time integrations with partners like United Airlines, US Airways, Choice hotels and Hilton hotels
  • Led the design and development effort to launch direct to consumer website Magazineoutlet.com
  • Involved in due diligence efforts during acquisitions of the companies Magazinediscountcenter.com and Bizrate Insights to evaluate their technology capabilities
  • Transitioned Magazinediscountcenter.com technology to Synapse from the previous owner
  • Led the migration of Magazinediscountcenter.com platform to AWS.

Software Analyst

Pearson
09.2014 - 12.2015
  • Migration from AWS data center to AWS platform
  • Integration with AppDynamics
  • BDD development with cucumber
  • Responsible for separation of the assessment/assignment services into separate microservice which lead to overall performance and individually scalable microservices
  • Designed and Implemented tools and reports for identifying any problem with the Content
  • The report that was generated was called as PAR(Program Audit Report) used by content editors to see if there are any problem with their programs
  • Worked on production support and have addressed several production support tickets including customer escalation issue as well as tickets from editors
  • Worked on third party software’s like RUMBA(authentication client), Equella (content metadata storage), TestNav (QTI player), SCORM engine (SCO content processor)
  • Worked on memory leak issues and JVM crashes
  • Contributed towards app dynamics/cloud watch monitoring that was used for this application.

Technical Lead

Atlas Systems
01.2008 - 08.2014
  • Perform variance analyses, study historical revenue / expense behaviors, and designs / prepares financial and statistical projections
  • Write reports outlying financial implications of proposed actions including cost benefit and project evaluation analyses
  • Participated in decisions regarding data collection, customer behavior analysis, and tool evaluation
  • Analyze data with advanced statistical methods, including time series methods
  • I have extensively interacted with company's CEO/CFO and other senior level executives to ensure accuracy and resolve issues
  • Understanding the requirement of the Financial report, locating the source tables and finding the feasibility to create the STATS without affecting the real business transactions (as the production sites are high traffic & running on 14 load balanced servers)
  • Sending the request to create the replication of the live tables in STATS server to run the nightly pre-calc
  • Assisting the team to create the pre-calc to store the hourly/daily/weekly/monthly summarized values
  • Creating DAO objects Used complex MYSQL engines (MERGE/FEDERATED) for several reports
  • Planning the scheduled backups of the STATS DB
  • UI design using free marker templates Assisting the team to customize the UI controls (Calendar Control, Tab control) Creating the graphs using jQuery Plot & Google finance charts & Google Visualization API
  • Used Spring modules like Core, Web flow and MVC to design implementation for request processing on bank payment gateways
  • Integrated the sonar plugin to measure the Junit test case coverage.

Software Engineer

Riverstone Technologies
08.2006 - 12.2007
  • REST API for webservice (FOAFER) in PHP with CodeIgniter framework
  • Developed Spring framework with Hibernate for Vergelijk application as n-tier application
  • Reverse engineered DBM objects to HBM files
  • Defined the Approach to the implementation of the design
  • Written Java functions to fetch data Servers
  • Optimizing Fredhopper (search engine) load process.

Education

Skills

    Cloud Platforms

  • AWS, Azure
  • Containers

  • ECS, Docker, Fargate, Kubernetes
  • Programming

  • Java, Python, Groovy, PHP, JSP, JavaScript, PLSQL
  • Cloud Technology

  • EC2, S3, SES, Elastic Cache, CloudFront, CodeDeploy, Auto Scaling, ELB, CloudWatch, ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, App Gateway, EKS, AKS, ECR, ACR
  • Database

  • Query Optimization, RDS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB
  • Frameworks

  • Grails, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, CodeIgniter, Hibernate, REST, SOAP, JMS, Hystrix
  • Web/Application Servers

  • Tomcat, Apache, Nginx
  • Analytics

  • New Relic, AppDynamics, Zabbix
  • Tools

  • Git, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Load Runner, Rally, Jira

Honors Awards

  • Synapse Super Star Award – 2016 and 2017
  • Atlas Employee of the month award

Certification

  • AWS architecture and AWS developer certification
  • Sun Certified JAVA Programmer
  • Client server architecture
  • IBM C Certification

Timeline

Cloud Architect

1010data
07.2019 - Current

Technology Lead Java / Cloud Engineer

Synapse Group Inc
01.2016 - 07.2019

Software Analyst

Pearson
09.2014 - 12.2015

Technical Lead

Atlas Systems
01.2008 - 08.2014

Software Engineer

Riverstone Technologies
08.2006 - 12.2007

SANTOSH DANIEL