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Ashesh Killamsetty

Ashesh Killamsetty

Software Engineer
BENGALURU,Karnataka

Summary

Experienced administrator focused on business efficiency and operational improvements. Dedicated and decisive leader with strategic and forward-thinking mindset. Brings progressive industry experience, willingness to learn and adaptability to changing circumstances.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Administrator

Wipro LTD.
Bangalore
07.2023 - Current
  • Drove operational efficiency and effectiveness for a top-tier American multinational financial services corporation/Baking sector.
  • Responsible for overseeing SSL certificates, performing renewals, and coordinating release deployments.
  • Ensured timely renewal of expiring certificates by maintaining a list and validating them with proper CSR's, SANs and required parameters.
  • Collaborated with various teams to ensure the smooth functioning of deployed certificates in production environments.
  • Server builds is a part of my day to day activities. We have to setup the environment in the new linux boxes like setting up monitors on the servers etc.
  • Streamlined server build setups with robust shell scripts to make the build process easy.
  • Worked on and resolved assigned incidents promptly.
  • DNS traffic routing when there is patching activity.

Senior Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra LTD.
Bangalore
02.2020 - 07.2023
  • Worked for client 'Thomson Reuter Corporation' during my tenure at Tech Mahindra. It is a Canadian multinational media conglomerate and they are world's leading source of news and information for professional markets.
  • I worked in a COBALT Services Team supporting the customer environment to make the services available in time without any impact on the business and implementing day to day administration in the Client and Production environment according to the business requirements.
  • Worked on Linux and Windows Servers hosting Tomcat, Jenkins, and IIS Application servers.
  • Successfully executed the deployment of release sets to various Linux and Windows-based applications using Jenkins.
  • Making changes to application configuration trough CMDB.
  • Built few Jenkins jobs to make our work easier and run the application deployments easily.
  • Managed the setup process for Quova application on Linux servers and facilitated its successful migration to AWS.
  • I have worked on configuring the DataDog tool and integrated it with the existing Linux servers in our environment to monitor the complete health of the environment in every aspect
  • I have created dashboards , stetted up monitoring configurations for the servers in the DataDog
  • Using DataDog fixed quite a lot of problems to build the environment and also fixed a lot of problems in the datadog to make it work in our environment
  • Troubleshooted issues using logs from the Datadog
  • Monitoring health of number of applications and servers through Incident management tool
  • Worked on Hardware Maintenance activities (Patching of servers) and Database migrations
  • Used prefstat tool to monitor the server's health
  • Troubleshooting problems related to systems, databases and applications servers related to Apache, Tomcat, Jenkins, IIS, WebLogic
  • Applying software patches to the servers
  • Performed deployments on few critical production applications
  • Worked in resolving multiple type of alerts which we receive.

System Engineer

TATA Consultancy Services
Bangalore
06.2016 - 02.2020
  • During my term in the TCS I have worked for a client "SUPERVALU Inc."
  • It is an US based company, mainly into grocery industry serving customers through a network of over 3000 owned franchised and affiliated stores across the country
  • Here my responsibilities are to work on migration of the applications from solaries to Linux, Installation and configuration of the applications on the Linux servers and administration and troubleshooting the applications issues in the production environment which are hosted on Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic, Wildfly etc., Enrolment of SSL Certificates for websites which are accessible internally/externally to clients and Installation of these Certificates on Apache instances
  • Creating Keystore and importing/ Exporting certificates in Tomcat, IIS
  • Renewing/Replacing CA certificates (Symantec, Comodo) and redirecting HTTP traffic to secure links using rewrite conditions
  • Experience in configuring Virtual Hosts (Name Based & IP Based) in Web Servers
  • Involved in creation of SOPs for Migration, Installation, Configuration of Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic
  • Troubleshooting web application access issues by analyzing access/error logs
  • Promoting log rotation policies based on size and ageing of log files
  • Expertise in handling Incidents, Requests, Change Orders & Problems adhering to ITIL process
  • Supporting multiple instances of Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic, IIS applications
  • Support includes deployments, restarts, taking dumps, analyzing logs through Incidents or Change requests
  • Involved in automation of weekly recycling activity of a particular application/domain which are hosted on Tomcat using bash shell scripting
  • Monitoring health of number of applications and servers through Incident management tool
  • Worked on Hardware Maintenance activities (Patching of servers)
  • Troubleshooting problems related to systems, databases and applications servers related to Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic.

Education

B.Tech - Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering

GITAM Deemed University
Visakhapatnam, AP
04-2016

Intermediate - MPC

Sri Chaitanya College of Education
Visakhapatnam, AP
04-2012

Board of Secondary Education - SSC

Sarvani Viday Niketan
Srikakulam, AP
04-2010

Skills

  • Middleware Administrator
  • Apache Web Server
  • Tomcat Application Server
  • WebLogic Applications Server
  • SSL Certificates
  • Datadog
  • Jenkins

Professional Highlights

  • I have 8+ years of IT experience as application support engineer in production environment.
  • From the starting of my career, I have been working in Middleware Technologies and I have good knowledge on Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic, JBoss, Wildfly technologies which are hosted on Linux.
  • I have a good knowledge on SSL certificates and installation in both web and application servers.
  • As an application support engineer, I have a good knowledge on how the user traffic flow goes to applications on the servers and how the networking part of the application works.
  • I have a strong troubleshooting skill. I have a good experience in troubleshooting the issues in production environment and fixing it. Based on the issue I will monitor logs for better understanding the functioning of the system and the application.
  • Experienced in Bug/Issue tracking tool like JIRA.
  • Have experience in monitoring tools like Datadog and AppViewX.
  • Highly capable to quickly learn new technology and adapt to a new environment. Ready to take up new Challenges and Roles.
  • Strong team player with excellent Inter-personal, written, oral and communication skills.
  • Having good analytical skills helped me in finding the Root Cause of the defect and prepared investigation reports for the defects.
  • I have good people management skills. I have managed around 10 members team as a part time team

Languages

English
First Language
Telugu
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Advanced (C1)
C1

Software

Apache Web Server

Tomcat Application Server

WebLogic Application Server

SSL/TLS

Timeline

Lead Administrator

Wipro LTD.
07.2023 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Tech Mahindra LTD.
02.2020 - 07.2023

System Engineer

TATA Consultancy Services
06.2016 - 02.2020

B.Tech - Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering

GITAM Deemed University

Intermediate - MPC

Sri Chaitanya College of Education

Board of Secondary Education - SSC

Sarvani Viday Niketan
Ashesh KillamsettySoftware Engineer