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Education
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Received Star of the Month, Best Performer and Best Team awards from the client for Deliverables
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Venkata Ravi Teja Sunkara

Irving,TX

Summary

Accomplished IT professional with over 14 years of experience specializing in TIBCO and Kafka administration, currently serving as a Solution Architect at WIPRO. Recognized for a strong ability to innovate and tackle complex technical challenges, consistently delivering high-quality solutions that enhance operational efficiency. Expertise in systems analysis, project management, and technical troubleshooting drives team success through effective collaboration and adaptability. Committed to leveraging technical skills and industry knowledge to contribute to organizational goals and foster continuous improvement.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Kafka Engineer

WIPRO Limited
04.2023 - Current
  • Designing the outline and analyzing the inputs required for any automation task.
  • Ensuring security in Kafka Cluster.
  • Onboarding customers into Kafka POC server.
  • Granting access, creating topics and helping customers to access the Kafka Cluster.
  • Certifying new versions of confluent product.
  • Imposing encryption techniques in confluent enterprise.
  • Ansible playbooks development for automation of confluent Kafka products.
  • Worked on certifying new features of Confluent Kafka like MRC and Cluster Linking.
  • Designed and implemented Confluent Kafka multi-region clusters MRC to support high availability, disaster recovery, and geo-redundant data streaming across global data centers.
  • Configured Cluster Linking to enable seamless replication of topics across regions, ensuring data consistency and reducing latency for cross-border applications.
  • Collaborated with clients to identify needs and deliver tailored engineering solutions effectively.
  • Attended team meetings to resolve technical and project issues and review project schedules.

Specialist

WIPRO Limited
11.2017 - 03.2023
  • Providing End-to-End support for all Lower environments [DIT/SIT/UAT].
  • Building new environments and Tuning Middleware products [TIBCO] to adapt and perform as per the transaction load. This includes tuning and configuring Load Balanced and Fault Tolerant servers/services.
  • Providing support for testing activities (Unit/Integration/UAT).
  • Creating new EMS instances and configure queues, users, connection factories, bridges, routers and topics.
  • Developing shell scripts and automating tasks and reduce manual efforts/errors and dependency.
  • Provided End-to-End support on Kafka Operation activities like monitoring the Confluent Kafka cluster components, creation/alter of Kafka objects, granting ACLs/RBACs on Kafka objects and troubleshooting the issues reported on the Kafka cluster.
  • Worked on major code drops and delivered the environments to customers in a smooth manner within the window.
  • Built and deployed multi-region Kafka clusters using Confluent Platform, enabling geo-redundant data replication, high availability, and disaster recovery across multi data centers
  • Led cross-functional teams to implement process improvements, enhancing operational efficiency across multiple projects.

Technical Lead

Cognizant Technological Services
02.2015 - 11.2017


  • End-to-End deployment management from development environment to production environment.
  • Performing EAR & WAR code deployments through Administrator console and backend scripts. EAR codes are developed through Business Works and Business Events.
  • Providing support for testing activities (Unit/Integration/UAT/PROD).
  • Creating new EMS instances and configure queues, users, connection factories, bridges, routers and topics.
  • Building new environments and Tuning Middleware products [TIBCO/JBoss] to adapt and perform as per the transaction load. This includes tuning and configuring Load Balanced and Fault Tolerant servers/services.
  • Performing code upgrades and technical upgrades in respective environments where TIBCO/JBoss suite is implemented.
  • Worked on Data Center Migration with ZERO downtime.
  • Written couple of scripts for deployments which reduced the Human effort to 80%.

Team Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2011 - 01.2015


  • Performing code upgrades and technical upgrades in the AIX and Linux environments where TIBCO suite is implemented.
  • End-to-End deployment management from development environment to production environment.
  • Performing EAR code deployments through AppManage script and through Administrator console. EAR codes are developed through Business Works and Business Events.
  • Administering 15 environments where each environment is a cluster of two Linux and one AIX system for the TIBCO Business Works, TIBCO Business Events and TIBCO iProcess software deployed in the clustered machines which are all connected to a dedicated EMS Server having multiple instances for each environment. Totally maintain 70+ servers in TIBCO environment for PROD and NON-PROD.
  • Providing support for testing activities (Unit/Integration/UAT/OAT/Performance Testing).
  • Creating new EMS instances and configure queues, users, connection factories, bridges, routers and topics.
  • Deploying iProcess Queue definitions, procedures and audit trail messages, creating iprocess users.
  • Building new environments and Tuning TIBCO products to adapt and perform as per the transaction load. This includes tuning and configuring Load Balanced and Fault Tolerant servers/services.
  • Developing shell scripts and automating tasks and reduce manual efforts/errors and dependency.
  • TIBCO environment lead in TRIO Enhancement activity, which includes EMS FT implementation and TIBCO products upgrade.
  • Worked on AIX p780 migration activity.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Alfa College of Engineering And Technology, JNTUA
Allagadda, Kurnool, ANdhra Pradesh, India
05-2010

Skills

  • TIBCO software: TIBCO Products [ Enterprise Message Service, Business Works(5x & 6x), Business Events, iProcess, AMX BPM, Hawk, ActiveSpaces], JBoss7, Jenkins, Apache, Confluent Kafka, Apache Kafka
  • Tools: Enterprise Message Manager(EMM), Bugzilla, Remedy, SNOW, BitBucket, Artifactory (JFROG)
  • Operating System: UNIX, LINUX, AIX, Windows XP / 2000
  • Languages: Unix shell scripting, Python (Beginner)

Accomplishments

  • Received Best Performer and Best Team awards from client for delivering the environments within the SLA with a smart work and in a stable manner.
  • Received On the spot and Start of the month awards from project.

Certification

  • Certified Data Streaming Engineer, Confluent - Sep'25 to Sep'27

Personal Profile

  • Date of Birth: 1989-06-14
  • Qualification: B. Tech, MBA
  • College, University: ACET, JNTUniversity, Anantapur.
  • Total Experience: 14 Years 5 Months
  • Designation & Employer: Solution Architect, WIPRO Limited
  • Marital Status: Married

Received Star of the Month, Best Performer and Best Team awards from the client for Deliverables

Received Star of the Month from the project on Automation by reducing the manual efficiency to 80% on daily routine works in the team.

Received Best Performer and Best Team awards from the Client on delivering the critical projects with 0% escalation and withing the SLA. 

Languages

English
Full Professional
Hindi
Limited Working
Telugu
Native or Bilingual
Tamil
Professional Working

Timeline

Kafka Engineer

WIPRO Limited
04.2023 - Current

Specialist

WIPRO Limited
11.2017 - 03.2023

Technical Lead

Cognizant Technological Services
02.2015 - 11.2017

Team Lead

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2011 - 01.2015

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

Alfa College of Engineering And Technology, JNTUA

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