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Santhosh Akula

Santhosh Akula

Platform Engineering
Hyderabad

Summary

Confident, committed, responsible and successful professional seeking a challenging technical position in a challenging work environment where I can fully utilize my acquired experience, technical, analytical, problem solving and communication skills towards mutual growth and development. Career Summary: 11+ years of experience in Platform Engineering with Public Cloud, OnPrem expertise on Confluent Kafka, AWS, Chef, Jenkins, GIT, Shell scripting, Terraform, Informatica Server Administration, Jaspersoft, Tableau and Cognos Administration, Kubernetes, Dynamic Data Masking UNIX/Linux. Design and architect, Installations, Configurations, migration, automation, performance tuning, Administration and Production Support.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Platform Engineering

Salesforce.com
Hyderabad
05.2021 - Current
  • Worked on maintaining, installing, monitoring several tool sets which includes Informatica Powercenter, Informatica Intelligent cloud services, Tidal, Airflow.
  • Created monitoring framework for the services using Unix shell scripting and python.
  • Worked on debugging and gathering root cause analysis fixing scripts both in python and Shell.
  • Worked on setting up Data science Platform(Dataiku) for Salesforce Business Technology Team.
  • Created CI/CD pipelines for Deployments.
  • Working along side with Data engineering team in creating frameworks and data pipelines.
  • Training the ops team on new frameworks and upgrading/emergency bugfixing tasks.

Platform Administrator

International Business Machines, IBM
04.2020 - 04.2021
  • As part of technology transition, we were transferred to IBM from Broadridge but the work we do remained same.

Broadridge financial Solutions-ICS & SPS
02.2015 - 04.2020
  • As a part of Administration team our responsibility is to support the ICS and SPS environments also support the upcoming initiatives and maintaining the environment stable all the time
  • Responsibilities:
  • Designed CI/CD pipeline for automated informatica deployments
  • Worked extensively with chef to create cookbooks for Oracle, Marklogic, Jaspersoft, apache, informatica
  • Worked on AWS to provision EC2, Loadbancers, Auto Scaling Groups(ASG) with Terraform
  • Have Architected and implemented the reporting platform for Broadridge with Jaspersoft by using the technologies like Chef, Terraform, Git, Nexus and Jenkins in the AWS cloud
  • Coded the CI/CD pipelines for automating jaspersoft platform in AWS
  • Have written cookbooks for several technologies like ETL, Reporting and Databases
  • Have worked on Implementing Confluent Kafka Solution in AWS using technologies like Chef, Terraform, Jenkins and Nexus
  • Worked extensively on Informatica Data exchange tool installation and configuration
  • Configured Dashboard, Managed file transfer, end points with Data exchange
  • Was able to Productionize Data exchange and DDM solutions to 4 clients within one month by scripting the entire installation, configuration
  • Implemented the monitoring solution for Informatica service latency and availability using shell scripts
  • Worked on upgradation of DEV, QA, UAT, PROD Environment from 9.5.1HF3 to 9.6HF2
  • Worked on upgrading the environment from 961HF2 to 961HF4
  • Worked on setting up IDQ (Informatica Data Quality) 961 Hf2
  • Worked on adding OS profiles to DEV, QA, UAT and PROD environments
  • Worked on creating LDAP domain across environments
  • Managing code deployments across the environments
  • Creating ODBC and Oracle connections
  • Managing the Informatica DDM environment
  • Creating relational connections and providing the appropriate access levels
  • Migrating Data Transformation code
  • Worked on configuring autosys and UC4 agents for informatica job scheduling
  • Applying EBF’s across the environments
  • Involved in POC’s for Informatica Dynamic Data Masking and Domain discovery
  • Implemented Masking solutions to Databases like MS SQL server, SYBASE ASE, Oracle by using Informatica’s Dynamic Data Masking tool
  • Architected the High Availability environment for DDM using Netscaler load balancer and JBoss
  • Environment:
  • Informatica 9.5 and 9.6, Data Quality services, Oracle 11G, 12C,Linux, Putty, Winscp citrix.

Technical Consultant From Tech Mahindra

GE Corporate Information Systems, GE Energy
03.2011 - 03.2015
  • As part of the Administration team the primary responsibility is supporting the Dedicated GE Transportation Informatica Environment and Support the New Initiatives of GECIS-BICOE
  • Responsibilities, Worked on end to end setup of an environment for, (sub business of GE Transportation)
  • Managing code Upgrades from 9.1 to 9.5 for power center and Data Quality
  • Work with the DBA’s for Creation of Database Instance, Oracle Client Installs
  • Creating Folders and managing user and user group access to objects
  • Experience in setting up Secure SSH keys between source and target machines
  • Installing and Configuring of SalesForce connections, Add entries to .ini files
  • Monitoring the Jobs and sever space availability
  • Worked on Power exchange Change Data capture for sqlserver and Oracle Databases
  • Sending Daily, Weekly reports to respective project managers about the ERRORs encountered and Jobs run statistics
  • Involved in migration of objects in all phases (DEV, QA and PRD) of project
  • Planning the schedules for maintenance of applications and servers
  • Being proactive in identifying and preventing resource bottlenecks, and to position ourselves early to prepare for resource upgrades to meet the growing needs of our business
  • Creating SR to Informatica Inc- related to any Power center product issues
  • Creating UNIX / LINUX user ids, group ids, folder structures, folder access flexibility, security access
  • Experience in writing shell scripts according to project needs
  • Scheduled Outage Support
  • Add, update and test ODBC and TNS entries
  • Worked on end to end set of an environment for GE Energy
  • Environment:
  • Informatica Power Center, 9.1, 9.5, Oracle 11g, TOAD, Linux, Winscp, Putty,, Support Central, Windows 7.

Education

Bachelor degree - computer science and electronics

Osmania University

Intermediate - undefined

Board of Education in MPC

SSC - undefined

Board of Secondary Education

Skills

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Accomplishments

  • Best outgoing student of the year from Little flower degree college.
  • Secured third position in Mathematics quiz conducted by Lions club at the state level.
  • Secured First prize on Mathematics seminar presented Bhavan's Degree college.
  • Secured First prize from Loyola academy on Mathematics quiz competition.

Timeline

Platform Engineering

Salesforce.com
05.2021 - Current

Platform Administrator

International Business Machines, IBM
04.2020 - 04.2021

Broadridge financial Solutions-ICS & SPS
02.2015 - 04.2020

Technical Consultant From Tech Mahindra

GE Corporate Information Systems, GE Energy
03.2011 - 03.2015

Bachelor degree - computer science and electronics

Osmania University

Intermediate - undefined

Board of Education in MPC

SSC - undefined

Board of Secondary Education

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