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Avinash Nathani

Toronto,Canada

Summary

To work in a challenging technical position and a progressive environment, which would permit me to grow in leadership and knowledge, excel in innovative thinking and implementation, share with team members and work on world-class solutions to real world challenges.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Infrastructure Associate

Cognizant technologies
07.2022 - Current
  • Working with teams like UNIX, Database, Firewall, MQ, and Application support teams in resolving the issues
  • Working on server setup for the QE teams to test various code releases and projects
  • Setting up Database, Installing MQ and various micro services that are required to test the environment
  • Restoring the Production DB to the lower environments by masking the data on both DB2 and Informix
  • Application deployments and maintenance over tomcat
  • Problem determination by analyzing application and webserver log files
  • Installed fix packs to overcome Application server problems
  • Ensuring that all the requests (E-mail, Instant messaging and Tickets) are addressed with in SLA
  • Attending daily stand-ups and meetings to update status of middleware projects and issues.

Build Analyst

TD Bank
05.2022 - 07.2022

• Worked on Open-stack cloud with Jboss administration along with customization of blueprints using YAML scripts.

• Worked on Migration of legacy WAS applications into cloud with Jboss platform on open-stack private cloud.

• Uploading and deploying the blueprints of Jboss instances with APIs through storm UI through Day 1 and Day 2 deployment activities.

• Ensuring that all the requests (E-mail, Instant messaging and Tickets) are addressed with in SLA.

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• Working with various other teams UNIX, Database, Firewall, MQ, and Application support teams in resolving the issues.

• Creating and Managing the Nodes, Application Server’s, Cluster’s, Virtual Hosts and generating and propagating plug-in.

• Configuration of WebSphere Application Server resources like Data Sources, JDBC, JNDI and Connection Pooling to connect to the databases.

• Problem determination by analyzing application and webserver log files.

• Deployment of EAR & WAR files on WebSphere Application Server 8.0 using admin console.

• Installed fix packs to overcome Application server problems.

• Analyzing Heap and Thread dumps.

• Involved in Raising and working on PMR's.

• Provided support 24x7 on shift rotational basis and on-call.


Technical Subject Matter Expert

IBM India Pvt Ltd
07.2016 - 05.2022

• Worked on Open-stack cloud with Jboss administration along with customization of blueprints using YAML scripts.

• Worked on Migration of legacy WAS applications into cloud with Jboss platform on open-stack private cloud.

• Uploading and deploying the blueprints of Jboss instances with APIs through storm UI through Day 1 and Day 2 deployment activities.

• Ensuring that all the requests (E-mail, Instant messaging and Tickets) are addressed with in SLA.

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• Working with various other teams UNIX, Database, Firewall, MQ, and Application support teams in resolving the issues.

• Creating and Managing the Nodes, Application Server’s, Cluster’s, Virtual Hosts and generating and propagating plug-in.

• Configuration of WebSphere Application Server resources like Data Sources, JDBC, JNDI and Connection Pooling to connect to the databases.

• Problem determination by analyzing application and webserver log files.

• Deployment of EAR & WAR files on WebSphere Application Server 8.0 using admin console.

• Installed fix packs to overcome Application server problems.

• Analyzing Heap and Thread dumps.

• Involved in Raising and working on PMR's.

• Provided support 24x7 on shift rotational basis and on-call.


Sr. Software Engineer

Cryptograph technologies
02.2014 - 07.2016

• Installed, Configured and Administered IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.x,6.x,7.x, and 8.x Network Deployment, IHS and Plugin on Linux.

• Worked on various tickets (problem, incident and change management) issued by clients.

• Configuration of WebSphere Application Server resources like Data Sources, JDBC, JNDI and Connection Pooling in order to connect to the databases.

• Involved in raising and working on PMR’s with IBM to solve various issues related to the Environment. Enabled trace as part of trouble shooting and used collector tool to submit the logs and traces of IBM WebSphere Application Server.

• Problem determination by analyzing application and webserver log files.

• Configuring Cluster setup both Horizontal and Vertical for workload management and high availability.

• Deployment of EAR & WAR files on WebSphere Application Server 6.1 using admin console and Urban Deployer.

• Worked with Service Integration Bus.

• Installed fix packs to overcome Application server problems.

• Enabling and disabling Global Security and creating various user roles to access the WebSphere application server environment.

Education

Master of Science - Data Telecommunication And Networking

University of Salford
Manchester
08.2010

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Anna University
Chennai
05.2007

Skills

  • IBM Websphere 610xx,70xx,80xx,85
  • IBM HTTP Server
  • Apache Tomcat
  • Jboss
  • IBM MQ
  • Azure
  • Linux(Red hat)
  • Jenkins
  • Git Lab
  • Unix
  • Windows95/2000/NT
  • AIX
  • SFTP/FTP
  • DB2
  • CI/CD
  • Azure
  • Sybase
  • TCP/IP
  • Pipeline Deployments

Education Qualification

  • B.Tech (Electronics and communication Engineering)-2007 from Anna University , Chennai.
  • M.SC(Data Telecommunication and Networks)-2010 from University of Salford, UK.

Technical Summary

  • Over 9 Years of IT experience in planning, installing, configuring, administering, tuning and troubleshooting of IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0,5.1,6.0, 6.1,7.0,8.0,8.5 and 9.0 on different platforms like Linux and windows.
  • Experienced in installing ,configuring and administering other middleware application server suites like Jboss and Tomcat.
  • Proficient in messaging middleware technology IBM MQ .
  • Have a good understanding and knowledge of Networking concepts in Linux environments.
  • Performed code deployments using Jenkins and Git Lab using CI/CD Pipelines.
  • Installed and configured middleware components based on client business requirements.
  • Dealt with troubleshooting issues like Server hang, HTTP threads, Application Deadlock, Out of Memory Issue, High memory usage and High CPU.
  • Sound knowledge in system health monitoring tools like Splunk and Dynatrace.
  • Experienced in Administering, Deploying J2EE applications on WAS 6.0, 6.1 and 8.0 versions using Admin console and WSADMIN scripting tool.
  • Involved in Configuring WebSphere resources such as JDBC Provider, Data Sources and Connection Pooling for connecting ORACLE, DB2 and SYBASE database.
  • Successful implementations of Workload Management (WLM) using clustering techniques including Horizontal and Vertical Clustering for failover and backup/recovery processes.
  • Experienced in Collection of JVM Statistics, Garbage Collection data for monitoring the heap memory and generating Heap dumps & Thread dumps.
  • Experienced in performance monitoring and tuning by enabling PMI at different levels and involved in tuning of different components.
  • Applied Fix Packs & Refresh Packs for WebSphere Application Server, IBM Http Server and Plugins using Update Installer.
  • Experienced in installing Java, startup scripts and log rotation scripts.
  • Possess sound communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills.

Languages

English
Full Professional
Telugu
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Professional Working

Certification

Azure Fundamentals- Microsoft Certification ID - 990570014

Timeline

Senior Infrastructure Associate

Cognizant technologies
07.2022 - Current

Build Analyst

TD Bank
05.2022 - 07.2022

Technical Subject Matter Expert

IBM India Pvt Ltd
07.2016 - 05.2022

Sr. Software Engineer

Cryptograph technologies
02.2014 - 07.2016

Master of Science - Data Telecommunication And Networking

University of Salford

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Anna University
Avinash Nathani