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Selvakumaran Bakthavachalam

Chennai

Summary

A highly skilled IT Professional with cloud migration and development experience & automation skills in Azure with proficient DevOps experience. Has scripting knowledge on PowerShell and skilled at implementing IAC code solutions using Azure ARM Templates & Terraform. Has excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and has a strong ability not only to perform overall application landscape assessment but also drive the migrations to suitable cloud platforms. Has a Masters Degree in Information Technology and has overall 20+ years of experience in application development, Automation, cloud migrations & DevOps tools.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Azure DevOps Architect (Senior Vice President)

BNY Mellon Technology
06.2016 - Current
  • Designed & implemented application migrations to Azure cloud from highly distributed environments.
  • Expertise in analyzing current state infrastructure to identify technical gaps and recommend consistent & reliable cloud architectures on Azure.
  • Development and design experience in azure skills – Logic app, Function app, Service Bus, Storage account, API app, ARM template, Integration accounts
  • Identify the processes gaps, iron out dependencies and define a streamlined process to migrate applications to cloud.
  • Create architectural design documents, migration & project plans for migration to cloud.
  • Demonstrate the proposed architecture in client review calls and get the sign-off from various stakeholders.
  • Collaborate and communicate with various internal and external teams to perform a seamless cutover.
  • Estimate effort required for Modernizing and migration of applications/infrastructure on to cloud environments.
  • Good knowledge on key services based on IaaS & PaaS offerings of Azure.
  • Does have exposure in implementing re-host solutions from on-premises to cloud and cloud to cloud.
  • Migrated on-premises applications to Azure PaaS offerings like Azure WebApps, Redis Cache and Azure SQL Server & implemented integration with Azure Key Vault, App Insights.
  • Educate, Envagelize development & operations teams on best practices of DevOps & support them in solving technical debt in the applications & infrastructure operations.
  • Profound knowledge on authoring and deploying resources via Infrastructure as code.
  • Experience in setting up end-to-end single click DevOps pipeline(both build & release) with including Infrastructure as code templates, Health checks, Blue/Green deployments on Azure DevOps.
  • Created linked Azure ARM templates for deployment of resources like service plan, webapps, sql server, keyvault, storage accounts and application insights.
  • Expertise in creating modularized Terraform templates for deployment of resources by storing state files in Azure Storage account in a distributed team environments.
  • Have experience in creating .yaml scripts for kubernetes and docker deployments.
  • Does have knowledge on creating deployment files for kubernetes via both imperative commands & declarative yaml files.
  • Have experience in creating PowerShell scripts for application health checks, applying webapp & sql server firewall rules, etc. to integrate them in DevOps Pipeline.
  • Streamline build & release processes using branch policies, deployment gates, pre & post deployment approvals in Azure Devops.
  • Does have good knowledge on distributed version control systems like git & git hub.
  • Does have experience in containerization & have implemented hosting solutions based on docker.
  • Knowledge on deploying containerized solutions via Azure Devops which handles complete cycle of build, push & deploy container images on to AKS clusters.
  • Does have knowledge on performing deployments using rolling updates & rollbacks for testing environments in kubernetes.
  • Train various client teams post migration, entire devops setup, services utilized on cloud to help them manage their daily operations.
  • Good Knowledge on setting up planning, process, services, documentation and tools around cloud.
  • Does have proficiency around defining Migration strategy to move applications to cloud.

Lead QA Manager (Vice President)

BNY Mellon Technology
02.2007 - 05.2016
  • Expert on Selenium Automation using Web Driver & Cucumber. Programming using Java, TestNG and good exposure to Mobile and Mainframe automation using Selenium
  • Good exposure to API automation using Rest Assured and Java
  • Having good experience on the Performance testing tool JMeter
  • Author of BNYM automation testing framework iGen developed in line with UFT and ALM testing tool
  • Member of Test Automation Technical Interview Panel at BNY Mellon
  • Experience in Idempotency Testing (Point in Time Recovery Testing)


Test Engineer

GFT Technologies
03.2004 - 02.2007
  • Developing Test Plan, Automation Scripts and Execution
  • Review of QTP Automation scripts written by the Script Development team
  • Responsible for Planning and daily execution of the Automation suite overnight

Education

Master of Science - Information Technology

Bharathidasan University
Tamil Nadu
01.2003

Bachelor of Science - Physics

Bharathidasan University
Tamil Nadu
01.2001

Skills

  • Azure DevOps expertise
  • Serverless computing with Azure Functions
  • Docker containerization
  • PowerShell scripting
  • Proficient in ARM templates and Terraform
  • Cloud security management
  • Microsoft Dynamics administrator
  • PowerApps design
  • Agile & DevOps methodologies

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
  • Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate (PL-400)
  • HP QTP Certified - 2008
  • HP QC Certified - 2008
  • Scrum Master Certified - 2016

Timeline

Azure DevOps Architect (Senior Vice President)

BNY Mellon Technology
06.2016 - Current

Lead QA Manager (Vice President)

BNY Mellon Technology
02.2007 - 05.2016

Test Engineer

GFT Technologies
03.2004 - 02.2007

Master of Science - Information Technology

Bharathidasan University

Bachelor of Science - Physics

Bharathidasan University
Selvakumaran Bakthavachalam