1. ARJUN PRATHAPARJUN PRATHAP
+1 919 931 8098 |+1 919 931 8098 |arjunprathap@gmail.com || LinkedIn
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY :
♦ 10 years of IT experience with strong DevOps, Infrastructure operations, and project management skills
balanced with a strong foothold in Finance and Retail domains.
♦ DevOps enthusiast with deep expertise in designing and architecting solutions for Software Configuration
Management (Build, Release and Deployment Management, CI/CD, Application Environment
Management ) and Incident Management.
♦ Excellent exposure to SCM, Networking, Storage, Scheduler concepts, Middle tier services and rest client
applications.
♦ Exposure to various cloud technology frameworks like Openstack, Ansible, Cloudfoundry, Docker and
Kubernetes
♦ Extensive experience in supporting high availability web applications infrastructure and DR strategies.
♦ Specialist in Datacenter migration, Linux hardware migration and SCM migration.
♦ Extensive experience with analysis, design, development, customizations and implementation of software
applications.
♦ Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements to technical requirements and architecture.
♦ Proven ability to work in a team, whilst being resourceful, self-directed and self-motivated.
♦ Well versed in ITIL best practices with demonstrated experience in delivering strategic & tactical solutions
with strong focus on continuous improvement and operational excellence.
♦ Well versed with supporting all phases of Waterfall and Agile - SCRUM methodologies.
COMPETENCIES :
Cloud technologies : Openstack, cloudfoundry, Ansible
Web Technologies : Apache, Tomcat, Pivotal webserver, Java
Programming Languages: Shell script, Pro *C, Python, Oracle PL/SQL, VBA script, C
Database : Oracle 11g
Tools and Utilities :
Datadog, Nagios, Kibana, logstash, Monit, collectd, Elastic search ,SQL Developer, TOAD,
Eclipse, VI Editor, Sitescope, Jenkins, edit plus, Beyond compare, RTC, JIRA, HP Service
manager, Clarify, Anthill Pro, Udeploy, ApplyIM, Informatica , ActiveMQ, TIBCO JMS,
Dynatrace
ACADEMICS :
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2. ♦ Bachelor of engineering – Telecommunication 2002 -2006
Visveshwaraya Technological University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
DevOps Engineer – CISCO Jan 2016 – Current
Client – Telstra / Verizon – Devops Team member
Project: Virtual Managed Services [VMS]
Responsibilities :
• Managed the creation of various test beds and environments using Openstack for clients such as Verizon
and Telstra.
• Implemented service assurance tools and technologies like Nagios, Collectd and Monit for effective
monitoring of platform health.
• Successfully built a scalable logging pipeline using tools such as Elastic search, logstash and Kibana
[ELK], enabling us with a consolidated logging architecture thus, providing a single point for the
Operations team to query and capture the errors generated across various logs.
• Actively participated in POC of various tools like Sensu, CheckMK and Datadog.
• Successfully built DATADOG monitoring solution allowing the DevOps team to have a single pane view to
monitor the health of various environments which significantly improved the monitoring efficiency.
• Played a pivotal role in Production implementation of VMS 2.2 and VMS 2.3, therefore enabling the
cloud based virtual networking function to our clients.
• Coordinated the migration from Gerrit to GITHUB.
• Responsible for building the framework to successfully complete the tools deployment, without any
inter dependency between other components.
• Built the foundation to use Ansible for automation of Deployments of VMS as a solution
• Quickly learnt and built reports on Service metrics engine to collect the metrics from VNF’s [Virtualized
Network function] devices and CPE [Customer premises equipment] devices and provide the status to
the customer.
• Responsible for building good working relationships with multiple teams following different perspective,
located across different geographical locations to efficiently plan and manage major product releases
and upgrades.
Assistant Consultant – Tata Consultancy Service May 2011 – Jan 2016
Client – Fidelity Investments – Technical Lead
Project - Strategic Master Security Vision
Responsibilities :
• Involved in procurement of servers and translate the architectural design in to Infrastructure design.
• Drove the Datacenter Migration project with perfection and saved 54K$ in efficient planning.
• Managed the capacity planning activity of allocation and usage of various servers, based on the weightage
of the application leading to a significant improvement in performance.
• Implemented a robust Continuous Integration and continuous deployment model using Jenkins, resulting
in higher productivity of the development team to better capitalize the advantages offered by agile
development life cycle.
• Efficiently managed the role of Patching coordinator and Release manager for approximately 150 Virtual
machines and servers.
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3. • Played a pivotal role in seamless migration of VNX to Netapp migration of NFS volumes without any data
loss.
• Architected the migration activities of GITHUB to STASH migration, TIBCO JMS to Active MQ migration.
• Managed parallel development with clean branching models and strategies.
• Actively participated in POC on Orchestration tools such as UDeploy.
• Scrum master for the complete iteration working under agile methodology.
• Built proactive application and infrastructure monitoring system by integrating tools such as Sitescope,
Dynatrace, Splunk, Hawtio.
Project - Intrepid
Responsibilities :
• Actively participated in POC on various build and deployment products and implementation of Anthill Pro
and Jenkins.
• Solely introduced Monitoring tools such as Sitescope, Hyperic for efficient application support.
• Accomplished and lead the effort of Setting up of over 30 Middle tier applications and manage multiple
Non Prod environments
• As a Release manager, Coordinated with various technology partners for major releases and do release
management activities
Project - Compliance
Responsibilities :
• Played an Instrumental part in the successful migration of Linux hardware and setup COMET application
into a new infrastructure.
• Learnt Informatica and successfully migrated over 50K workflows from versions 8.1 to 9.1.
• Built installation script for releases in both Prod and Non Prod environment.
• Performed an important role in release Management activities for COMET 5.0 to 5.6 releases.
• Mentored and exponentially ramped up an offshore team, to provide application support to the
Compliance business unit.
• Developed expertise in identifying and resolving Autosys batch cycle issues.
Software Engineer - Mphasis, an EDS company Feb 2007 –Apr 2011
Client – 7 Eleven USA – Software Developer
Project : WSAE – Vendor Performance system and IA extracts Project
Responsibilities :
• Built algorithm to precisely rank the vendors performance based on various attributes.
• Involved in successfully translating the BRD to programs for extracting data from multiple sources to
generate and feed data to a new subsystem called Web methods.
Project : RIS HOST REFRESH Project – Onsite Assignment
Responsibilities :
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4. • Compiled over 600 modules of Pro*C and C in ITANIUM architecture and resolved all the warnings and
compilation errors in an effort to successfully complete the linux server migration from PA RISC
Architecture of HP UX to ITANIUM architecture.
• Co-ordinated and mentored the offshore team to Build and deploy strategies to provide continued
support.
• Undertook the complete responsibility of migrating the legacy Centura application to point to a new
database in a new server.
• Learnt Autosys scheduling concepts and successfully migrated the complex configuration of jobs in TNG to
Autosys, and efficiently strategized a new approach using outer box concept to improve the monitoring
aspect of the batch cycle.
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS:
• Awarded Beyond Excellence award for successful implementation of SMSV in the year 2015.
• Recognized for continued commitment towards the business and awarded the Service and commitment
award in the year 2014.
• Star of the month award for implementing the environment monitoring strategies the year 2013.
• Star of the month award for being the key player of the team in the year 2012.
• Awarded with the Apex award for playing a pivotal role in one of the most critical and fortune changing
project for my client – 7 Eleven USA.
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