Hari Iyer

Project: Nestle Nespresso, Nestle Waters

Technology: Akamai CDN, Nginx Web server, Kubernetes,Terraform.

Domain: Food and beverages.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Modify and create multiple rules like redirector, downstream cacheability, compression, cookie based cache settings, Adaptive image acceleration, last mile acceleration, FEO etc on ION premier of Akamai properties.
• Modify and create multiple custom rules like API security, Custom BOT rules, SQL Response rules, DDOS PHP script vulnerability, SQL Injection, Network list for whitelist or blacklisting IP/ Subnets based on environments, Web Client telemetry settings in KONA Security Configurations.
• Create edge redirectors and visitor prioritizations on Edge cloudlet.
• Manage DV and OV SAN and wildcard certificates and their respective origin certificates as well.
• Manage domains at Fast DNS.
• Create Web Security alerts on specific thresholds on conditional triggers of any custom rule on a pattern of hostname, path or even cache query parameter.
• Use the Akamai Security Dashboard for any vulnerabilities and mPulse for monitoring and analyzing the statistics of API call time and patterns.
• Create Image policies like image resize and compression to WebP/JPEG2000 at Image Manager based on the usage and placement of the image (carousels,banners, etc.)
• Use the Akamai debugging tools for troubleshooting any errors with reference IDs.
• Use CloudTester to generate and perform multiple use case scenarios like Login Workflow, Checkout workflow, Cacheability elements etc to determine the total round trip times.
• Use Akamai providers in terraform to create and offload new properties.
• Deploy Akamai API CCU on Kubernetes for handling Cache purging at API level (For those who doesn't have Luna Dashboard Access)
• Create and configure Nginx web server properties and handle its SSL certificate.
• Deploy Nginx and PHP on Kubernetes Cluster.
• Fostered relationships with vendors to promote positive working relationships.
• Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.

Project: EPIC On, Docubay, Platanista Games.

Technology: DevOps for Automation, Amazon Web Service Cloud Management, Microservices implementation, Nginx, Akamai & Limelight CDN.

Domain: Over-the-top Media Service.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Leading team of 10.
• Architecture infrastructure through different environments for EPIC Channel, Docubay and Platanista Games.
• Akamai CDN :- Create ION / AMD Package Properties, Migrate DNS from Godaddy to Akamai Fast DNS, Create MSL4 Package for HLS Live streaming, Create and Manage Akamai net-storage, Optimize caching of static and VOD contents, create HTTP Offset, egress and midgress alerts in Luna Dashboard etc.
• Creation, configuration, maintenance and monitoring of following Amazon Services like EC2 Instance, S3 bucket, RDS (MySQL and PostGres), SES (For Mailing) , ELB (HTTP and TCP) , Elasticsearch, ElastiCache Redis, Lambda Function.
• Architecture and automate deployment cycle for APIs, containerizing then in kubernetes and integrating them in jenkins.
• Fine- tune servers by standardizing baseline assessment server hardening script.
• Maintain Domains and their DNS at Godaddy and Neustar UltraDNS.
• Create and manage certificates and renewals at EC2, Akamai and Server level (letsencrypt).
• Used Terraform for automating Limelight property deployments across multiple properties in batch.
• Release Management - Manage team supporting all production releases including enterprise release, weekly releases and special projects.
• Take ownership of all existing products and OTT solutions utilized by EPIC ON and Docubay OTT Platform at cloud-based infrastructure and system levels.
• Lead project feasibility, project costing and project planning activities.
• Obsessed with uptime of solutions falling under responsibilities.

Achievements:

• Successfully contributed in Revamp of OTT Epic On App by containerizing APIs, implementing API Gateway and Automating Deployment methodology.
• Successfully migrated VOD, Live TV and Static Contents from Akamai CDN to Limelight CDN in short timespan of 2 months.
• Successfully implemented best transcoding profile for VOD contents for EpicON and Docubay.
• Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Created plans and communicated deadlines to ensure projects were completed on time.
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.

Project: Direct Taxation (2016 - 2019).

Technology: TIBCO to Open Source Migration (Microservices with DevOps).

Domain: Manufacturing and Petrochemicals.

Roles, Responsibilities & Achievements:

• Plan and design project as per technical requirements and implement scaling and optimizations.
• Migration, Azure Load balancing, Networks, Backups, App Services, Security Center IaaS and PaaS.
• Create VMs and VLANs in Azure cloud for multiple application installations.
• Work with implementation of Jenkins(master/slave), Create Jobs and pipelines, write Jenkins file, implement RBACs and manage users and groups.
• Automate installation, configurations, downtime activities and disaster recovery with Ansible playbooks.
• Work with implementation of docker and create services for APIs on multi-node swarm.
• Work with implementation of Kubernetes cluster for microservices and create deployments, services, ingress, and secrets.
• Work with implementation of nexus as artifact management tool for docker images and Spring boot java archives.

Project: STAR, HN Hospital, Petroleum Retail (2014 - 2019).

Technology: TIBCO ESB.

Domain: Hospital, Manufacturing and Petrochemicals.

Roles, Responsibilities & Achievements:

• Plan and design project as per technical requirements and implement scaling and optimizations.
• Provided technical expertise and guidance on TIBCO administration approaches process reengineering and design.
• Troubleshooting various complex issues faced in any, especially production landscape.
• Successfully set up disaster recovery environment.
• Set up load balancing and fault tolerance for BW Engines at runtime
• Configure TIBCO EMS highly available/fault tolerant servers queues, topics, routes, zones, users and groups and with SSL.
• Controlled costs and optimized spending via restructuring of budgets for labor, capital assets, inventory purchasing and technology upgrades.
• Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.

Project: Nielsen CDAR (Amtrak Railways).

Technology: TIBCO ESB.

Domain: Railways.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Approve and sign off releases from Development through production.
• Work with Implementation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of TIBCO ESB Suite ( Enterprise Message Server, BusinessWorks, Adapter, Administrator, Hawk).
• Design OS Architecture for Software installation.

Project: Reliance JIO.

Technology: TIBCO Loglogic.

Domain: Telecommunications.

Roles, Responsibilities & Achievements:

• Work with Implementation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of TIBCO LogLogic Enterprise Virtual Application 5.4.1 and 5.5 for Log Management of Telecom data.
• Work with implementation of LogLogic Management Center, for managing Loglogic Cluster.
• Train team of 40 with TIBCO Loglogic for JIO team.

Project: Reliance JIO.

Technology: Linux Administration and TIBCO ESB.

Domain: Telecommunications.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Work with installation and configuration of Oracle 11g and MySQL 5.5.0 RDBMS ( creating database & schema, automating dumps and incremental backups with python scripts )
• Work with installation and configuration of TIBCO TRA, BusinessWorks, EMS, Adapters (SAP, DB, FILE, LDAP) , Creation of factory, durables, queue and topic in EMS, Deploy EAR files from Tibco administrator, administration and monitoring of service instances, User administration in EMS and administrator.
• Troubleshoot failed deployments.

Project: In-house.

Technology: Linux and Network.

Domain: Law.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Linux Kernel Tuning for different applications, OS User Management, writing Shell Scripts for Performing Baseline Assessment and Vulnerability Assessment on Linux Servers, Configuring File system for ACL, Linux File system Administration, DNS Server, and Apache for Web services, Implementation of SQUID proxy server, SSH, File Servers (FTP, NFS, and SAMBA Server), Webmin & Usermin, Scheduling cron jobs, cacti and zabbix, NTP time Service, creating LVM and partitions as per requirement, manage Apache web servers.
• Creating Virtual Machines using VMWare vCenter,working with vSphere 4.1 and 5.0, VLAN mapping for virtual machines.

• Master of Science in Information Technology
  
• Graduated with Pass Class.
  

• Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.
  
• Graduated with First Class.