Anoop Tej Thotapalli

Product: OpsMx Enterprise for Spinnaker (OES) & Autopilot

• Responsible for CI/CD architecture design, implementation and operations
• Deploy, manage, and monitor various services on multiple cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM Cloud) such as Compute Engine, VPC, DNS, S3, GCR, GKE/AKS/EKS/IKS, etc.,
• Played a key role in planning and setting up Disaster Recovery for Spinnaker
• Worked on setting up blue/green deployments for VM based work loads following principles of Immutable Infrastructure
• Setup pipelines for deploying Kubernetes workloads using blue/green strategy leveraging potential of Ingress controllers
• Coordinate with multiple software development teams helping them streamline software development & delivery process
• Use Hashicorp packer to create Immutable images
• Created and Maintaining helm chart of OES and Autopilot
• Worked on Spinnaker LCM setup to install production grade Spinnaker with a single installation command.
• Write Terraform config files for creating infrastructure in AWS and Azure
• Administer and maintain Kubernetes clusters and unblock developers with k8s related issues
• Help customers onboard their CI/CD process of applications onto Spinnaker and set it up on production
• Setup Prometheus and EFK on k8s clusters so that the data can be used to test/validate the functionality of Autopilot
• Configure GitHub Actions to setup CI for internal applications
• Write Gitlab CI files to setup CI/CD
• Setup mutual TLS for Spinnaker services using cert-manager
• Setup container native load balancing on GCP using NEG with Ingress
• Configure and Integrate Spinnaker with various auth mechanisms like LDAP and SAML

Technologies worked on: Spinnaker, Argo CD, Jenkins, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, OpenStack, Gitlab, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket, Terraform, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, EFK, AWS CloudWatch

Product: FCM Account(Futures Commission Merchant)

Client: Wells Fargo India

• Responsible for managing a team of 120members, ensuring to meet the Support SLA.
• Installation, configuration and administration of Jenkins over Linux build machines in distributed mode over Apache Tomcat and configure job along with various plug-in for continuous integration, release builds for AGILE and production branches.
• Deployed the code to various environments using the specific jobs like DEV, SIT, QA, Pre-Prod and performance environment deployments.
• Implement, maintain and improve Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery services with AWS.
• Perform DevOps for Linux with MobaXterm and Windows platforms.
• Bug tracking, Issue tracking and project management through JIRA, Kanban board
• Code quality analysis in SonarQube, review in Crowd & Store artifact, build information in JFrog Artifactory
• Provided 24x7 support for Applications running on Jboss Application Server for production and lower environments
• Led the installation, configuration and administration of Jboss Application Server 7.0EAP. Migrated to Jboss Application Server 7.0EAP from 7.2GA, configured JNDI Using Jboss Connection Pool

Technologies worked on: Apache 2.4.23, Jboss 7.0 EAP & 7.2GA, LDAP, Oracle 11G & 12c (Exadata), HP LoadRunner

Product: MetricStream GRC(Governance Risk & Compliance)

Projects: Bank of America, Lowes (USA), Johnson & Johnson (J&J) (USA), Cummins, StateStreet Bank, Target, JCI (Johnson Controls Inc.), Conselation Energy (Exelon)

• Responsible to Provide Technical Expertise for Web Applications running on Application Servers like WebSphere (6.X,7.x, 8.5), WebLogic (10.3, 12c), Jboss Application Server (5.x, 6.x & 7.x), Tomcat.
• Also, worked on Setting up and troubleshooting all the Application Servers and Web Servers (Apache, IIS 7 & WebSphere IHS)
• Delivered high priority (P1 & P2) support for different incident, change and environment setups within the given SLA.
• Assisted in deployment, troubleshooting and working closely with AD teams for issues and performing deployments
• Ensure release management on various customer and internal code drops
• Expert in setting up, troubleshooting and managing High availability systems (Clustered or Distributed systems).
• Assisted in designing, capacity planning, disaster recovery and load balancing Client On-Premise/Cloud Environments.
• Automation of Applications deployments/routine tasks using scripts and Jenkins.
• Provided technical training sessions to the client on multiple technologies (WebSphere App Server, Jboss, WebLogic, and SSO) and processes (Release Management Process, CI/CD, Project Planning and Project Execution).
• Ensured quality and timely delivery of the product on various customer and internal code drops, by following agile methodology.
• Worked on CI/CD tools for Release Automation, Jenkins, GIT/SVN, BitBucket, Rundek Configuration, uDeploy, Docker.
• Managed Various tickets assigned and maintained the SLA. Perform system health checks and deployments
• Extensively worked on scaling up client environments, by identifying bottlenecks on the Application Performance.
• Actively lead and executed performance test cycles using HP LoadRunner/NeoLoad Performance testing and monitoring tool to test the Health and Performance of the Application

Technologies worked on: WebSphere Application Server, Jboss, WebLogic, WebSphere IHS Webserver, Apache Tomcat, SAML, Kerberos, Site Minder, LDAP, OAUTH2, Oracle DB (11g & 12g)

Product: WebSphere Application Server

Clients: British Telecom (BT) & PepsiCo

• Provided 24x7 support for Applications running on WebSphere Application Server for Development to Production environments, deployment activities, troubleshooting and working closely with AD teams for issues related to Infrastructure from PROD
• Managed various tickets assigned via Remedy and Lotus notes and maintaining the SLA
• Led the installation, configuration and administration of WebSphere Application Server V6.0 on AIX
• Regulated upgradation of WebSphere Application Server from V6.0 to V6.1 and V7.x
• Created deployment manager and application server profiles for both stand-alone and managed nodes
• Federated stand-alone nodes to CELL of Deployment Manager
• Ensured deployments of applications in Cluster environments and troubleshooting
• Created virtual hosts and generating and propagating plug-in
• Enabled global security on WebSphere environment using LOCAL OS and assigning privileges to console users and groups, installation and configuration of IBM Http Server and WebSphere Plug-in
• Performed shutdown and startup of Application and Web server instances in various environments (PROD, DR, INT, DEV, and QA) as a part of weekend activities
• Ensured the global Security on WebSphere Environment using Federated LDAP and assigning privileges to console users and groups, renewed the expired SSL certificates, performed configuration changes as per request

Technologies worked on: WebSphere Application Server, BMC Remedy Tool.