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Samuel Meka

Samuel Meka

Release Engineer
Hyderabad,AP

Timeline

Release Engineer

NTT Data
06.2024 - Current

Middleware Administrator

NTT Data
05.2022 - 05.2024

Bachelor of Science - COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING

Loyola Institute of Technology And Management College
06.2017 - 07.2021

High School Diploma -

Sri Chaitanya College
06.2015 - 05.2017

SSC - SSC

St Joseph's High School
06.2014 - 04.2015

Summary

Results-driven Release Engineer with 4 years of IT experience, including 2 years as a Release Engineer and 2 years as a Middleware Administrator in enterprise production environments. Experienced in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, GitHub, and Maven to automate software build and deployment processes. Skilled in Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and AWS, with hands-on experience in application deployment, release planning, version control, deployment validation, rollback strategies, and environment management across Development, QA, UAT, and Production.

Strong understanding of DevOps practices, Agile methodologies, Release Management, Infrastructure Automation, and Configuration Management. Proven ability to collaborate with development, QA, operations, and business teams to deliver reliable, high-quality software releases while ensuring minimal downtime and faster deployment cycles. Experienced in production support, troubleshooting deployment issues, root cause analysis, and continuous process improvement.

As a Middleware Administrator, I have hands-on experience in installation, configuration, deployment, administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, Oracle WebLogic, and JBoss/WildFly on Linux/UNIX platforms. Experienced in SSL Certificate Management, Server Patching, Upgrades, Performance Monitoring, Log Analysis, Incident Management, Production Support, High Availability, and ServiceNow, while ensuring SLA compliance and collaborating with cross-functional teams to resolve critical production issues.

Education

Bachelor of Science - COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING

Loyola Institute of Technology And Management College
Andhra Pradesh
06.2017 - 07.2021

High School Diploma -

Sri Chaitanya College
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
06.2015 - 05.2017

SSC - SSC

St Joseph's High School
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
06.2014 - 04.2015

Overview

7
7
years of post-secondary education
4
4
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages

Work History

Release Engineer

NTT Data
Hyderbad, India
06.2024 - Current


• Developed and maintained release plans for software deployment processes.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline release workflows.
• Implemented version control strategies to enhance code integrity and consistency.
• Established automated build and deployment pipelines using industry-standard tools.
Coordinated cross-functional teams during product launches to ensure seamless integration between
development, QA, and operations.

Performed root cause analysis on failed deployments to identify areas of improvement in the release
process and prevent future issues.

Execute code integration and maintenance activities, CI/CIT/CID integration, and automation.
Worked in container-based technologies, like Docker and Kubernetes.

Used Ansible and Ansible Tower as configuration management tools to automate repetitive tasks,
quickly deploy critical applications, and proactively manage change.
Used Ansible Playbooks to set up a Continuous Delivery Pipeline. Deployed microservices, including
provisioning AWS environments using Ansible playbooks.

Middleware Administrator

NTT Data
Hyderbad, India
05.2022 - 05.2024

• Hands-on experience with installation, configuration, and upgradations on Apache, Tomcat, and JBoss.
• Experience in renewing SSL certificates.
Practical knowledge of Linux operating systems and administration of middleware technologies like
Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, and WebLogic.

• Having good knowledge of the ServiceNow ticketing tool.
• Update and resolve the tickets on a priority basis in the Incident Management tool as per the guidelines.
• Experience in remediating the vulnerabilities.
• Fixing the disk space issues in the Linux environment as per the requirement.
• Having good knowledge in change management tools.
• Good experience in working on day-to-day patching activities (start/stop services).
• Experience in creating single and multiple instances in Apache and Tomcat servers.
• Installed and configured Tomcat in a Linux environment.
Experience in implementing the end-to-end SSL configurations, certificate storing, and keystore
management.

Good experience in installation, managing, and troubleshooting Apache, Tomcat, and WebLogic
servers.

• Prepare a Knowledge Base document of any new issues for further use.
Following the SLA for any issues in the environment. Responding to the tickets and debugging
according to the SLA.
• Disabling middleware services as per the requirement

Skills

Docker containers

DevOps principles

Kubernetes orchestration

Version control systems

Continuous deployment

Continuous integration

Agile methodologies

Linux

Amazon web services

Release management

Application Servers: Apache Tomcat, Jboss, WebLogic

Web Servers: Apache

Jenkins automation

Ticketing Tool: ServiceNow

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Telugu
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)

Accomplishments

 Secured second position in Power Point Presentation on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE held in 3rd Year Engineering.

 Attended Workshop on DESIGN THINKING conducted by University Innovation Fellows of D. HASSO PLATTNER institute of Design and Stanford on collaboration with JNTUK.

 Attended online webinar on DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING organized by APSSDC.

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