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Venkata Sai Pavan Chimakurthi

Hyderabad

Summary

Dynamic Middleware Administrator with proven expertise at Tech Mahindra in Oracle WebLogic and API Gateway management. Adept at optimizing Apache servers and implementing F5 BIG-IP for enhanced security and performance. Strong problem-solving skills complemented by a commitment to continuous learning in AWS and DevOps practices.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Middleware Admin

Tech Mahindra
Hyderabad
08.2021 - Current
  • WebLogic Administration: Managed WebLogic servers and applications, handling OPatch, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
  • WebLogic SOA Infra: Managed and upgraded SOA Infra WebLogic servers, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
  • API Gateway Management: Skilled in setting up and managing API Gateway to expose and protect APIs.
  • Apache: Managed and optimized the Apache web server, ensuring high availability, security, and performance. Configured virtual hosts, SSL/TLS, and load balancing, while troubleshooting and resolving server-related issues.
  • F5 Big IP Experience: Supported load balancing, traffic management, security policies, and access control using F5 Big IP for various projects.
  • Red Hat OpenShift: Currently working on a challenging OCP project, eager to learn and improve skills.
  • Managed File Transfer (MFT): Experienced in securely transferring files between systems and partners.
  • Rsync Familiarity: Knowledge of using the rsync command for file synchronization across different locations.
  • AWS: Learning the AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, CloudFormation, and AWS Backup, to manage, monitor, and optimize cloud infrastructure.
  • DevOps Proficiency: Skilled in Git, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD Pipeline, and other DevOps tools.
  • Monitoring Tools: Worked with Dynatrace and Policy Studio.
  • SRE Transition: Transitioned to the SRE model using Jira, streamlining problem resolution, and reducing workload.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - E.C.E

Vignan Lara
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
04-2020

Skills

  • Oracle WebLogic, SOA
  • AWS
  • F5 BIG-IP
  • Axway API Gateway
  • Apache
  • Tomcat
  • Red Hat OCP
  • Axway MFT
  • HTML
  • CSS

Certification

  • AWS Certified: AWS Cloud Practitioner, CLF-C01
  • AWS Certified: AWS SysOps Administrator - Associate, SOA-C02

Accomplishments

  • Appreciation from the manager for the completion of AWS Cloud Practitioner and SysOps Administrator certifications
  • Manager's appreciation for the swift completion of the API Gateway, F5, and WebGate deployment

Hobbies and Interests

  • Playing Badminton
  • Movie Buff
  • Listening music

Professional Projects

  • Oracle WebLogic Upgrade 12C (12.2.1.2 to 12.2.1.4), swiftly performed backups for over 20 WebLogic domains across 9 environments, applied the latest WebLogic 12.2.1.4 version using the silent file, ensured successful upgrade, and tested application functionality on the WebLogic server, performed upgrade for SOA domains
  • AWS focuses on managing, operating, and deploying applications on AWS, deploy, configure, and maintain AWS services like EC2, S3, and other cloud services, manage Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) configurations, including security groups, network ACLs, and route tables, implement and maintain high availability and fault-tolerant systems using AWS best practices, responsibilities include monitoring system performance, managing AWS resources, automating deployments, ensuring security and compliance, and optimizing costs, installed Docker and pulled some inbuilt images from Docker and created some extended images as well.
  • SSL certificate management, implemented and configured SSL/TLS protocols on API Gateway listeners, configured and optimized SSL profiles on F5, enhancing the security and efficiency of SSL connections, demonstrated strong troubleshooting skills in identifying and resolving SSL-related issues across API Gateway, F5, and Policy Studio, optimized SSL configurations to meet performance requirements and industry best practices.
  • Configured, deployed, and managed WebLogic Server domains for enterprise applications, ensuring high availability and scalability across multiple environments (dev, test, prod) Integrated WebLogic with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack to enable proactive infrastructure health checks and alerting. Performed patching, upgrades of WebLogic domains with minimal downtime during maintenance.

Timeline

Middleware Admin

Tech Mahindra
08.2021 - Current

Bachelor of Technology - E.C.E

Vignan Lara
Venkata Sai Pavan Chimakurthi