Experience

Bluestem Brands

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Manager (Cloud Data and Platform Engineering)

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  • Building exciting tools for Customer journey, segmentation and Data Governance. • Motivating and driving the initiative to transform the existing team in the Data domain to embrace modern software principles - TDD, ATTD, CICD, DevOps, Agile and pair-programming. • Building solutions in AWS, Azure • Building exciting tools for Customer journey, segmentation and Data Governance. • Motivating and driving the initiative to transform the existing team in the Data domain to embrace modern software principles - TDD, ATTD, CICD, DevOps, Agile and pair-programming. • Building solutions in AWS, Azure



HealthPartners

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal ( DevOps , Big data and Cloud Platform services)

  • Jul 2017 - Aug 2021

  • Led major initiatives providing technical solutions and application architecture standards for Infrastructure, Big data, Database and Cloud Platform services. • DevOps tooling and framework for IS&T infrastructure services. • Implement Platform as a Service (PaaS) using Openshift and developed CI/CD pipeline library • Oracle database management automation solution • Lead hadoop team in implementing data platforms and pipelines to provide insights for web analytics, health informatics and research.



Adobe

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Engineer (DevOps & Cloud)

  • Jun 2016 - Jul 2017

  Part of Adobe I/O ,www.adobe.io, the definitive destination for developers looking to learn about, engage with and integrate Adobe cloud, mobile, and web technologies. Accelerate innovation and enable application developers to leverage the power of adobe creative tools. Crafting tools for platform engineering & micro services operations , create and orchestrate processes, design and develop infrastructure build pipelines for multi-cloud technologies (AWS, Azure & On-prem) using Linux, Packer, Vagrant, Chef, Test Kitchen, rSpec, ServerSpec, Jenkins architecture, enabling Containerization microservices using Docker, customized event management solution using Kafka and Zookeeper, Clusterization Mesos and Marathon, and Continuous Integration,Testing and Deployment. Data science platform implementation using Kinesis, Spark and Elasticsearch.



Bluestem Brands

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. DevOps Engineer

  • Mar 2016 - Jun 2016

  o Responsible for design, use and management of build data pipeline engineering in AWS. o Contributed to Infrastructure automation using Chef. o Responsible for design, use and management of build data pipeline engineering in AWS. o Contributed to Infrastructure automation using Chef.



Pearson VUE

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Engineer (DevOps and Cloud)

  • Aug 2015 - Mar 2016

  OS , Network , Storage & Backups , Apps and Cloud Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration Self-healing and immutable infrastructure with AWS Containerizing Java based applications with Docker and Kubernetes Infrastructure as code with Puppet , Packer, Ruby etc... Test-Driven Development with Rspec & Cucumber Continuous Integration ,Testing, Delivery and Monitoring. Fast Feedback using DevOps & Agile methodologies OS , Network , Storage & Backups , Apps and Cloud Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration Self-healing and immutable infrastructure with AWS Containerizing Java based applications with Docker and Kubernetes Infrastructure as code with Puppet , Packer, Ruby etc... Test-Driven Development with Rspec & Cucumber Continuous Integration ,Testing, Delivery and Monitoring. Fast Feedback using DevOps & Agile methodologies



HealthPartners UnityPoint Health

• United States
• Insurance
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Engineer. - Systems & Database

  • Aug 2007 - Jul 2015

  Enterprise Server deployment & capacity Planning - AIX / RedHat & SUSE Linux Enterprise backup and storage management - TSM, DS8K & VTL Automation and Orchestration of Server and Application environment - Shell , Perl, Ruby & Puppet Database management & Directory services - IBM DB2 and TDS (LDAP) Disaster recovery and Business continuity - IBM HA cluster & Storage replication (Hitachi HUR), Cross-site Mirror and TSM (Backup/Restore) Datacenter and workload migration - Live partition mobility / SAN & Storage replication Server Virtualization (Hypervisor, CPU & Memory, Storage Pools, vSCSI, NPIV SEA,IVE & SR-IOV) & Cloud computing Application Integration and Infrastructure support : Lawson, Cloverleaf and EPIC Project management, Vendor management and Procurement POC Big data using Hadoop



VED Software Services, Inc.

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Systems Engineer

  • Feb 2006 - Sep 2007

  Deploying Applications : WebSphere & Java framework Server Virtualization : AIX & Linux Storage and Backup engineering : DS8K , VTL & Tivoli Storage Manager Database management : DB2 Deploying Applications : WebSphere & Java framework Server Virtualization : AIX & Linux Storage and Backup engineering : DS8K , VTL & Tivoli Storage Manager Database management : DB2



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Advisory IT Specialist

  • 2001 - 2006

  Large scale AIX & LINUX Server and OS Engineering Storage & Network management : IBM ESS , DS4500 , SSA and Cisco Data center operations : Load balancing , High availability , Cross-site replication (FC & IP) Backup solutions : TSM Application deployment : IBM WebSphere and Java Database support : DB2 Enterprise Monitoring : ITM Automation, Service and Support. Large scale AIX & LINUX Server and OS Engineering Storage & Network management : IBM ESS , DS4500 , SSA and Cisco Data center operations : Load balancing , High availability , Cross-site replication (FC & IP) Backup solutions : TSM Application deployment : IBM WebSphere and Java Database support : DB2 Enterprise Monitoring : ITM Automation, Service and Support.



Kirby Building Systems - A group company of Alghanim Industries

• Kuwait
• Construction
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Support Executive / Network Administrator

  • 2000 - Jan 2001

  ORACLE ERP Implementation Network infrastructure : Cisco Switching and Routing Windows & Linux solutions ORACLE ERP Implementation Network infrastructure : Cisco Switching and Routing Windows & Linux solutions



DCM Data Systems

• IT Specialist

  • 2000 - 2000

  AIX , Storage & TSM consulting AIX , Storage & TSM consulting



GTN Industries Ltd

• IT Incharge

  • 1996 - 2000

  IT Operations Campus network design using Cisco UNIX and Windows systems administration SAP R/3 Material Management Implementation (Technical) ABAP development IT Operations Campus network design using Cisco UNIX and Windows systems administration SAP R/3 Material Management Implementation (Technical) ABAP development