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Karthik Ayyappareddy

Bangalore

Summary

  • Currently working as a Senior Systems Engineer at VISA Inc., Bangalore, with over 10 years of experience in Middleware, Platform Engineering, System Administration, and IT Operations across Linux and Windows environments.
  • Successfully delivered critical enterprise projects for Ingeniorx (Legato Health Technologies), Auto Accounts (Epsilon India Pvt. Ltd.), and IT Operations (CenturyLink Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.), ensuring high availability, seamless operations, and SLA compliance.
  • Strong expertise in Oracle Hyperion, Denodo, Apache Kafka, RESTful APIs, and AWS Cloud services, enabling robust application deployment, integration, and cloud-based solutions.
  • Hands-on experience in application/product support, incident/problem management, change management, and ticket resolution within defined SLAs, ensuring minimal downtime and enhanced user experience.
  • Delivered end-to-end technical solutions by gathering requirements, analyzing business needs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams and vendors, driving process improvements and operational efficiency.
  • Skilled in managing complex IT environments, leading projects, and coordinating with stakeholders to ensure timely delivery and quality outcomes.
  • Adept at troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and optimizing system performance, consistently improving business processes and client satisfaction.
  • Results-oriented professional with strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and a proactive approach, ensuring high-impact solutions in enterprise environments.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Systems Engineer

VISA Inc
Banglore
04.2023 - Current
  • Owned end-to-end L2/L3 production support for large-scale enterprise environments, supporting Oracle Hyperion/EPM, Denodo Platform, Apache Kafka, and Adobe Experience Manager, ensuring high availability, reliability, and SLA compliance.
  • Performed quarterly CPU patching, vulnerability remediation, and security updates across middleware, application servers, and operating systems, coordinating change management and post-deployment validation.
  • Led critical Essbase migration from virtual machines to physical servers, handling planning, execution, rollback strategies, and performance validation to improve stability and throughput.
  • Planned and executed Oracle EPM upgrades from 11.2.8 to 11.2.16, including readiness checks, dependency validation, upgrade execution, smoke testing, and production stabilization.
  • Provided advanced WebLogic and Essbase troubleshooting, resolving JVM performance issues, memory utilization problems, startup failures, and connectivity errors.
  • Implemented SSL/TLS configurations and certificate lifecycle management, including renewals, chain validation, and secure communication enablement across middleware platforms.
  • Applied security hardening best practices and supported audit and compliance requirements by remediating findings and documenting controls.
  • Administered and upgraded the Denodo platform to version 8.0, managing environment health, deployments, patches, hotfixes, and post-upgrade validation.
  • Automated Denodo scheduler jobs through Control-M integration using scripts, reducing manual execution and improving operational efficiency.
  • Managed Denodo user administration, role-based access control, permissions, and governance aligned with enterprise security policies.
  • Integrated ForgeRock SSO for centralized authentication and authorization, enabling secure access across middleware applications.
  • Supported RHEL operating system migrations for application platforms, ensuring compatibility, service continuity, and production readiness.
  • Delivered Apache Kafka platform support, including cluster administration, broker management, topic configuration, and environment monitoring.
  • Executed Kafka patching, security remediation, and core component upgrades, ensuring platform resilience and compliance with security standards.
  • Performed Kpow upgrades and monitoring, analyzing consumer lag, throughput, and broker health to maintain platform stability.
  • Supported Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Author and Publisher environments, handling deployments, access issues, and production incidents.
  • Managed AEM SSL certificate renewals, user provisioning, and role administration to ensure secure and compliant access.
  • Designed and implemented Ansible-based automation to eliminate repetitive operational tasks and standardize environment management.
  • Developed Bash and shell scripts for system administration, monitoring, log handling, and L1 automation use cases.
  • Created and maintained Splunk dashboards and alerts for infrastructure and application monitoring, enabling proactive incident detection and faster MTTR.
  • Performed Linux and Windows system administration, including service management, cron scheduling, OS patching, DISM troubleshooting, firmware upgrades, and OS-level security hardening.
  • Actively participated in incident management, root-cause analysis, and post-incident reviews, driving continuous improvement and platform reliability.

Senior Software Engineer

Carelon Global Solutions
Bangalore
09.2019 - 03.2023
  • The Main Objective of the Ingeniorx Project is to Provide the Pharmacy Services to the Anthem Clients. Anthem is providing the Services to its clients with the Help of CVS Health Systems, which is a Service Provider for the Anthem. that includes Services like Orders, Prescriptions, Pharmacy Stores, Prescription Price Comparisons etc.
  • Diagnosing and resolving API's and web service-related issues with the help of Postman tool, SOAP UI & tracing Splunk logs
  • Identifying/resolving Docker container services issues running on Dev, SIT, UAT, and Prod environments
  • Troubleshooting issues in depth by enabling APIGEE trace. Identifying the root cause for problems and providing the fix resolution within the timeline
  • Coordinating with Business Owners/stakeholders by setting-up calls for resolving queries, obtain clarifications, and governance meeting. Providing on-call support where and when required.
  • Working On Enterprise helpdesk Tickets that are Created For the Member Reported issues.
  • Working on DML's on the Oracle DB to Fix the Member Related Data issues.
  • Analyzing the Member Related issues and working with CVS health Systems if there are any issues in the Backend.
  • Legato Health Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
  • Project Type: Support and Monitoring
  • Technologies: RestFull Api's, Docker, Aws, Apigee, Mongo DB, Oracle DB, Linux, Git, Terraform
  • Ticketing Tool: Servicenow
  • Monitoring Tools: Splunk, Willy, Hp-BSM
  • Other Tools: Postman, Confluence, Jira, Jenkins
  • Platform: Windows 2010
  • Team Size: 4

Production Support Engineer 2

Epsilon India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
10.2018 - 09.2019
  • The main objective is to provide digital campaign across North America for BMW, NISSAN, AUTONATION, Ford. EPSILON receives feeds from BMW/NISSAN/AUTONATION/Ford and process/analysis, customize, merge customer data with relevant data in Agility platform which Epsilon is holding and will generate target list for business solutions.
  • Supporting 3 Accounts, which are using by Oracle Database; providing 24/7 support and monitoring
  • Ensuring all the files received from client are processed, validate the rejects if any and deliver the data to run the campaigns
  • Performing tasks file check, file load, resuming the batch, rerunning the batch
  • Project Type: Production Support and Monitoring
  • Technologies: SQL, Linux
  • Ticketing Tool: Servicenow
  • Monitoring Tools: FRMS, JCS
  • Other Tools: Putty, WinScp, Toad, Winsql
  • Platform: Windows 2010
  • Team Size: 3

Software Engineer

CenturyLink Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
09.2015 - 10.2018
  • ITOP is designed by CenturyLink to enable service providers in the telecommunication industry to bring new, revenue generating services to market faster, easier and at a lower cost. The services are open, scalable, reliable and flexible referenced architecture. Customers can log on, pay bills or make payments, shop for plans and phones and manage their accounts. Provide data, voice and managed services in local, national and select international markets through its high-quality advanced fiber optic network and multiple data centers for businesses and consumers.
  • Supported/monitored 180 Enterprise applications running in Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PaaS and IaaS), JBoss, WebLogic, Fuse, Tomcat application servers deployed on the JAVA STACKED farms
  • Managed on call support for applications in the production environment
  • Deployed of JAR, WAR, and EAR files in clustered environments using console and automation tools to all production application servers
  • Kept the applications up 24/7 and solved server and application related issues
  • Maintained the applications (SLA) Service Level Agreement and MTTR (Mean Time to Repair)
  • Directed regular server maintenance activities by scheduling OS patches and database patches
  • Prepared & planned incident, risk and change management procedural documentation for clients
  • Understood and troubleshot complex customer issues on production environment; identified & fixed any bugs occurring in the applications
  • Migrated and upgraded application servers; managed project migration activities changing from one environment to other
  • Installed and configured sentry monitoring tool in new servers
  • Configured the alarms to monitor the application's logs and application server's performance
  • Arranged set-up of SSH trust between servers
  • Provided support to applications hosted in cloud environment with the pivotal and performing the deployments by PowerShell and GO-CD
  • Worked on DR plans (Disaster Recovery) for the applications
  • Interacted with DBA, Unix admin team and Dev teams to fix critical production issues
  • Resolved various priorities of user queries that came via chat mail or ticket ticketing tool
  • Modified/created Unix scripts for scheduling various data cleansing scripts and loading process
  • Monitored the health of servers such as CPU utilization, disk spaces & so on
  • Engaged network team in case of network slowness such issues and provided required data to them
  • Administered constant analysis and application monitoring; responded to customer queries and to critical/severe business problems; performed application bounce and maintained application high availability
  • Project Type: Production/Application Support and Maintenance
  • Technologies: WebLogic, JBOSS, Service Mix, Fuse, Tomcat, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Linux
  • Ticketing Tool: Remedy, Servicenow
  • Monitoring Tools: Sitescope, Sentry, Nettool, Icinga, Splunk
  • Other Tools: Putty, Secure CRT, WinScp
  • Platform: Windows 2007, 2010
  • Team Size: 8

Education

B.Tech. - Computer Science and Engineering

Siddharth Institute of Engineering and Technology
Puttur
01.2014

HSC - MPC

Sri Chaitanya Junior College
Tirupathi
01.2010

SSC -

Sri Gayathri Global School
Tirupathi
01.2008

Skills

Middleware Engineering

  • Oracle Hyperion
  • Oracle EPM
  • Essbase
  • WebLogic
  • Denodo platform management
  • Apache Kafka
  • Adobe AEM
  • AEM Administration
  • JBoss
  • Tomcat

Platform Engineering

  • Middleware Support
  • Platform Support
  • Production Support
  • Application Support
  • Monitoring
  • Performance Monitoring
  • System Health
  • Incident Management
  • Issue Resolution
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • SLA Management
  • MTTR Reduction
  • Change Management
  • Risk Management
  • Maintenance Coordination
  • Client Coordination
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Project Coordination
  • Service Reliability

System Administration

  • Linux Administration
  • Windows Server
  • Ansible Automation
  • Bash Scripting
  • Certificate Management
  • Security Hardening
  • Oracle DB
  • MongoDB
  • Splunk
  • Icinga
  • SiteScope
  • Sentry
  • Wily
  • HP-BSM
  • ServiceNow
  • Remedy
  • Postman
  • Apigee

Mailing Address

#87,301,4th Main, Ayyappa Nagar, Kr Puram, Banglore,560036

Languages

  • Telugu
  • English
  • Telugu

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 06/15/92

Organisational Experience

  • Legato Health Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, Karnataka, Sr Software Engineer, 09/19, Assisting all customers and providing production support for all designs and performing tests on all installation process for infrastructure, Performing all tests on production applications and preparing recovery procedures for all applications and providing upgrade to same, Coordinating with IT groups and external vendors and ensuring effective application services to ensure reliability of all applications, Analyzing all business processes and ensuring compliance to all controlled processes according to business requirement, Monitoring and providing support to workflow and providing expert knowledge on all workflow designs, Coordinating with various teams and raising support ticket for all issues, analyzing root cause and assisting in efficient resolution of all production processes, Maintaining logs of all issues and ensuring resolutions according to quality assurance tests for all production processes, Steering project operations with key focus on defining Service Level Agreements (SLAs) & Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) as well as interacting with prestigious clients, business partners, vendors & other key stakeholders, Managing a variety of tasks as part of IT Projects including vertical integration (web, service, data, and security) and application lifecycle management including continuous integration, test-driven design, refactoring, and evolutionary design, Initiated IT Upgradation that led to improved productivity & efficiency by 70% and reduced cost by 30%, Worked on multi-million projects by using technical tools and implementation from scope management to activity sequencing, effort & cost estimation, risk analysis to quality management in line with companies guidelines and norms.
  • Epsilon India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, Karnataka, Production Support Engineer 2, 10/18 to 09/19, Supporting 3 Accounts, which are using by Oracle Database; providing 24/7 support and monitoring, Ensuring all the files received from client are processed, validate the rejects if any and deliver the data to run the campaigns, Performing tasks file check, file load, resuming the batch, rerunning the batch
  • CenturyLink Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, Karnataka, Software Engineer, 09/15 to 10/18, Supported/monitored 180 Enterprise applications running in Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PaaS and IaaS), JBoss, WebLogic, Fuse, Tomcat application servers deployed on the JAVA STACKED farms, Managed on call support for applications in the production environment, Deployed of JAR, WAR, and EAR files in clustered environments using console and automation tools to all production application servers, Kept the applications up 24/7 and solved server and application related issues, Maintained the applications (SLA) Service Level Agreement and MTTR (Mean Time to Repair), Directed regular server maintenance activities by scheduling OS patches and database patches, Prepared & planned incident, risk and change management procedural documentation for clients, Understood and troubleshot complex customer issues on production environment; identified & fixed any bugs occurring in the applications, Migrated and upgraded application servers; managed project migration activities changing from one environment to other, Installed and configured sentry monitoring tool in new servers, Configured the alarms to monitor the application's logs and application server's performance, Arranged set-up of SSH trust between servers, Provided support to applications hosted in cloud environment with the pivotal and performing the deployments by PowerShell and GO-CD, Worked on DR plans (Disaster Recovery) for the applications, Interacted with DBA, Unix admin team and Dev teams to fix critical production issues, Resolved various priorities of user queries that came via chat mail or ticket ticketing tool, Modified/created Unix scripts for scheduling various data cleansing scripts and loading process, Monitored the health of servers such as CPU utilization, disk spaces & so on, Engaged network team in case of network slowness such issues and provided required data to them, Administered constant analysis and application monitoring; responded to customer queries and to critical/severe business problems; performed application bounce and maintained application high availability

Knowledge Purview

  • AWS Concepts IAM, S3, EC2 and VPC
  • Docker Concepts setting up the Environment, Running Containers, Dockersing own App
  • Creating Docker Images by Docker File
  • Different Generations of Version Control Systems, Distributed Version Control System
  • Installing Git, Initialization Of Git in Local Machine, Different Working Areas of Git
  • Local and Remote Repositories of Git
  • Overview of CICD Engine, Setting up Jenkins Server on local Machine

Timeline

Senior Systems Engineer

VISA Inc
04.2023 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Carelon Global Solutions
09.2019 - 03.2023

Production Support Engineer 2

Epsilon India Pvt. Ltd.
10.2018 - 09.2019

Software Engineer

CenturyLink Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2015 - 10.2018

B.Tech. - Computer Science and Engineering

Siddharth Institute of Engineering and Technology

HSC - MPC

Sri Chaitanya Junior College

SSC -

Sri Gayathri Global School
Karthik Ayyappareddy