PRASHANT KUMAR
Principle System Platform Architect
PRASHANT KUMAR
Principle System Platform Architect
COLLAGE
BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PILANI (INDIA)
SUBJECT
COMPUTE SYSTEM & INFRASTRUCTURE
COLLAGE
BHILAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, DURG, C.G. (INDIA)
SUBJECT
ELECTRONICS & TELE-COMMUNICATION
SECURITY CERTIFICATES
CLOUD COMPUTE
AZURE SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT EXPERT
AZ-300: Azure Architect Technologies
AZ-301: Azure Acrhitect Design
ISSUER: MICROSOFT
This Certificates are not retired & replaced with AZ-303/AZ-305
ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE 2019 CERTIFIED ARCHITECT PROFESSIONAL
ISSUER: ORACLE
This Certificates are not retired.
KUBERNETES TRAINING
VMware vSphere
F5 TRAINING
CYBER-SECURITY TRAINING
SUMMARY
Qualified Engineering Professional offering 15 years of industrial experience with exposure in Financial and telecommunication domains.
Experience in IT infrastructure design (virtualised & cloud environment), capacity planning and technical implementation for Security Solution (including middleware products like F5, ISAM, Apache, WAS/JBoss/Tomcat, ESB, XmlGW etc..) using DevOps tools.
Led efforts in designing, creating and maintaining IT services and steering the development of a reliable IT service to improve the client's existing IT service infrastructure.
Worked on large-scale business product architecture and design efforts & assisted in resolving integration and interface issues between various systems with focus on optimising performance and scalability.
Managed delivery frameworks and new technology implementation projects for streamlining related activities as per quality standards.
Steered the execution of projects - defining scope, setting timelines, analysing requirements, designing, prioritising tasks, identifying dependencies and evaluating risks & implementing plans.
Excellence in gathering and understanding requirements of clients & other multiple stakeholders (at strategic and tactical levels), followed by translation into functional specifications as well as providing effective solutions to complex problems in collaboration with Business & Technical team.
Research on new technologies and planing proof-of-concept and production implementations.
Evaluating, Analysing, and identify areas of potential risk concentration within Line of Business overall physical and virtual infrastructure, applications and application components.
HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE
Leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale.
Large scale migration experience Data Center to Data Center and Data Center to Cloud.
Guide, support, and recommend Cloud based solutions.
Design and implement simple to complex storage and networking strategies.
Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting.
KEY RESULT AREAS
- Proven acumen in architecting & designing solutions for product and managing process development & driving vision, strategy, roadmap and release plans.
- Administering client-interaction and providing technical assistance to offshore team members along with developing/designing new features, effort estimation and documents management and release management.
- Following the project lifecycle methodology defined under the process framework; ensuring that customer deadlines are met within project budgets.
- Spearheading automation and defining continuous improvement processes.
- Collaborating with clients for analysing and mapping client’s needs / enhancements, customising solutions accordingly and consulting with technical team to provide solutions as per the delivery schedules.
- Hands on experience on Cloud technology, Dev Ops tools.
- Administering the creation of various customised and interactive reports and dashboards in various tools.
- Monitoring team’s adherence to Agile Process during project execution Identify issues and assisting team to resolve the same.
Tools
Tools
Tools
Tools
Tools
SUMMARY
- Working as Principle Infrastructure architect for Security Solution application/products, which offers high end security to the business customer.
- Managing end-to-end service delivery involving team for Web Platform Engineering (build), Project Management & Scrum Masters.
- Designing architecture roadmap for applications on virtualised & cloud infrastructure, to support auto-scaling (for cloud infrastructure), auto/manual failover based on business needs.
- Researched new technologies and develop proof-of-concept for new technologies like Redis, Postgres, Google cloud platform, Cloudera Hadoop etc.
- Involved in capacity planning & Identifying performance bottlenecks and optimise the performance.
- Automate deployments (CI&CD) & other repetitive tasks using shell/Python scripts or tools like Jenkins & CodeDeploy etc.
- Configure centralised configuration management using DevOps tools like Chef/OpsWorks, Puppet, Ansible etc.
- Also, Part of Company’s Internal Trainer and have conducted various In-class training for Cloud technology, SSL & WebSphere Application Server.
- Co-ordinating with various teams across 4 countries to understand business requirements, propose solutions and ensure delivery.
SUMMARY
- Managed team of 18 people of various Middleware Technologies like WAS, MQ, ConnectDirect and Database.
- Providing 24*7 Production Support from Offshore. Responsible for Building & Supporting various applications of Lloyds Banking Group which are running on clustered WebSphere Application Server and Jboss Application Server.
- Implemented DevOps tools in Dev, Pre-Prod & Production environment for automatic build & deployment for various application. (Patched 200 WAS Servers using chef & Ansible)
- Handled and configured certificates for application security on web/app tier.
- Liaised with various teams like customer engineering, development, and operations by aligning their requirements and use cases to the functional capabilities of existing solutions.
- As a On-call Manager, Involved in bridge calls with other team leads and developers for resolving the high priority issues for high availability production systems and also supported deployment into Pre-production and Production Environments.
SUMMARY
- Responsible for installing & managing Middleware product WebSphere application server, Jboss, & MQ on Linux, AIX.
- Involved in IBM WebSphere Application server installation, configuration and management. Worked on horizontal clustering and vertical clustering for Work Load Management (WLM) and Fail over.
- Work with scripting languages for WSADMIN like JYTHON and SHELL scripts.
- Automate new changes in environment for time utilisation by create JYTHON scripting for starting, stopping servers, installing application, creating custom properties, JVM changes, synchronising of nodes etc.
- Involved in troubleshooting and resolving problems encountered and Documentation of all procedures and any other important issue.
- Having good knowledge at configuration of WAS including profiles management.
- Analysed native log files using the Log Analyzer and diagnosed application server problems and interacting with IBM support (PMR services) to solve problems.
- Monitored Applications, Generated thread dumps / Heap dumps to check for system objects using IBM Thread/Heap analyzer.
- Involved in troubleshooting and resolving problems encountered and Documentation of all procedures and any other important issue.
SUMMARY
- Responsible for installing & managing Middleware product WebSphere application server, CA Siteminder & MQ on Linux platform.
- Involved in IBM WebSphere Application server installation, configuration and management. Worked on horizontal clustering and vertical clustering for Work Load Management (WLM) and Fail over.
- Mentored junior team members and trained them for development of various projects.
- Communicated with the client for requirements gathering and daily status updates.
- Provided Technical assistance to team members
- Worked on Agile methodology
- Executed Performed Unit Testing, Performance Tuning, Bug Fixing after System Testing.
- Involved in troubleshooting and resolving problems encountered and Documentation of all procedures and any other important issue.
- Work with scripting languages for WSADMIN like JYTHON and SHELL scripts.- Analysed native log files using the Log Analyzer and diagnosed application server problems and interacting with IBM support (PMR services) to
solve problems.