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Yuva Rajesh Chadalavada

Summary

With 13+ years of overall results driven and diversified experience in Middleware engineering, looking for a Middleware Architect role that utilizes professional technical expertise, architectural, automation and design skills in integration using various Middleware products.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior IT Architect (Middleware)

NCS Hub
06.2022 - Current
  • RedHat Jboss EAP 7.4 and Nginx Plus 1.23 services installation and configuration in newly build servers after provisioning.
  • Raising Firewall rules to integrate with different systems and components for application connectivity.
  • Procure the SSL certificates for Jboss, Nginx and Solace components and enable the TLSv1.2 protocols & strong ciphers for secure communication with application.
  • Coordinate with different Infrastructure teams to align setup with Architecture design and maintain the tracking of tasks.
  • Performing Hardening Guidelines on Jboss, Nginx and Solace, and provide artifacts to client for review and approval.
  • Conduct performance testing on systems and application, fine tune the parameters require to reach the throughput expectation.
  • Configure auto heap dumps generation parameters in Jboss whenever Jboss runtime goes hung or out of memory.
  • Configure auto healing scripts to recover the Jboss and Nginx services when goes down abruptly.
  • Create Solace VPNs, Queues, and link bridges according to requirement for application.
  • Configure Solace MQ adapters to consumes the messages from the Solace appliances queues and process them.
  • Fix the quarterly vulnerabilities received from Cyber team and apply the Jboss & Nginx patches based on quarterly patch cycle in all Non-prod and Prod environments.
  • Configure Jboss and Nginx start/stop scripts in Ansible tower.
  • Integrate Jboss, Nginx and Solace with Monitoring tools like Splunk, eG, Service Now (alerts & ticketing).

Client: Monetary Authority of Singapore

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Quess Corp
06.2020 - 06.2022
  • JBoss, Tomcat & Apache services installation and configuration in newly build servers after provisioning
  • WebSphere Application Server installation and configuration
  • Connect Direct configuration
  • Coordinating with Infra teams to configure different tools like Control-M and Job scheduling
  • Firewall open and DNS registration requests submissions to respective firewall and DNS teams.
  • Assisting application teams during application setup, deployments, and testing.
  • Troubleshooting the issues encountered by application team during the deployment and testing
  • Provide support to different teams during the application GO-LIVE process and engage the respective teams during the period till the application GO-LIVE.
  • Oracle Vault and JBoss vault configurations
  • SSL certificate requests and configuration in the middleware components
  • SSL certificate import activities to vendor products
  • Monitoring tool configuration for SIT and UAT environments
  • R2Web reports configuration with print queues to send the report file with fix extensions .pdf, .txt, etc

Client: United Overseas Bank (UOB)

IT Consultant

IBM Services Talent Delivery Pte Ltd
04.2015 - 05.2020
  • Jboss& Apache services configuration and restarts based on environment requirement.
  • Address all the issues raised by Business Users and do first level analysis of the problem and provide solution or clarification.
  • Coordinating with L3 Team to do further investigation for the issues which need to fix for the business users.
  • Acknowledging the alerts triggered from various tools like Foglight, AKAMAI, Gomez, ITM etc and fix the issues.
  • Change Requests (CR) will be raised and follow up with the respective teams to implement the changes and ensure the task to be completed in time and without any issues.
  • Weekly meetings with Business Users and L3 Teams to follow up the Incident tickets raised by Business users and discuss the procedures to fix the issues, target dates for production etc.
  • Handling calls and emails with various teams to address the issues and drive until the issue closure.
  • Analyze the problems from various application logs and system logs and also need to try to simulate the problem in order to debug the issues.
  • Health Check monitoring daily which involves servers, applications to ensure the systems are healthy before Business Teams and customers start their work and executes their work smoothly.
  • Support for yearly Bank-wide DR-drill activity.
  • To assist and coordinate with respective teams like Incident management and change management when there is major problems / incidents occur.

Client: Development Bank of Singapore (DBS)

Middleware Administrator

Infinite Computer Solutions
03.2011 - 03.2015
  • Primary role in building new applications and providing the infrastructure support for PROD, DR, UAT and SIT environments.
  • Worked in building, configuring and setting up Testing and Production Environments and tested and supported the project according to Business Rules and specifications.
  • Provided production support (24/7) and coordinated with developers, Management and end users to resolve the critical issues.
  • Actively involved in adding new features and configuration changes for the existing environments.
  • Interacted and Co-ordinate with different Application Groups for Hot Deployment and Dynamic Reloading of the Applications.
  • Administered, configured, tuned and Troubleshot WebSphere in a clustered environment on AIX.
  • Actively involved in the Migration of several enterprise applications from WebSphere Application Server v6.1 to v7.0 and v7.0 to v8.5.5
  • Worked closely with developers to define and configured application Servers, Virtual Hosts, Web Applications, Web resources, Servlets, JDBC drivers and Servlet Engines-as well as deployment of EJBs across multiple instances of WebSphere.
  • Involved in Troubleshooting and resolving problems encountered when implementing models
  • Actively involved in the Migration of several JMS applications from WebSphere MQ v6.0 to v7.0 and v7.0 to v7.5.
  • Actively participated in the SSL renewal activity for CA signers in DBS, which is a bank wide critical activity for all the business applications.
  • Implemented SSL security between client, Web Server& application server and generated Self Signed and Signed Certificates (Generate CSR and Import Signed Cert to Keystores) through ikeyman and OpenSSL.
  • Well versed with complete Development Life Cycle process which includes development, testing, implementation and migration process.
  • Migrated existing applications from WebSphere Application Servers 5/5.1 to 6/6.1and 6.1 to 7.0 on Unix and Windows Platforms.
  • Experience in troubleshooting on issues such as out of memory, memory leaks, hung session and session replication, federation of nodes and synchronization of nodes with Network Deployment Manger.
  • Closely worked on DR rehearsals and configured the PROD and DR environments.
  • Extensive experience in problem tracing, WebSphere log files and troubleshooting problems related to the applications deployed on WebSphere Application Server.
  • Configure and create WebSphere clusters, servers, connection pools, JMS queues and topics.
  • Tuned the WebSphere JVM Heap Sizes by adjusting the MIN, MAX Sizes, garbage collection, JDBC Pools in Production and Staging Environments.
  • Extensive experience in Installation and Configuration of IBM HTTP Server 6.1/7.0/8.5.
  • Experience in applying Fix Packs for WebSphere Application server.
  • Analyze logs, Head Dumps and Thread Dumps.
  • Expert level proficiency in troubleshooting issues using various IBM tools, such as IBM Support Assistant (Heap analyser and IBM core analyser).
  • Configured WebSphere MQv6.0,7.0 & 7.5 series queue managers, queue manager objects, queues, channels and clustering
  • Monitoring and maintenance of queue managers, queues, channels and listeners.
  • Created MQ series objects on local and remote MQ servers.
  • Enabled triggering on MQ queues and channels.
  • Performed the administrative tasks by using MQSC commands.
  • Experienced in setting up WebSphere MQ distributed queuing environment
  • Attending to tickets through the client proprietary ticketing system.
  • Experience in operational 24/7 support, best practice trouble shooting, monitoring, and maintenance
  • Extensive experience in problem tracing, WebSphere log files and troubleshooting problems related to the applications deployed on WebSphere Application Server.
  • Worked as a part of team in performance testing and monitored the performance of all the application before moving on to production environment.
  • Opened PMRs with IBM and worked with them closely as a part of troubleshooting efforts.
  • Worked as a part of 24/7 on-call support for production and non-production environments.
  • Primary role in building the applications and providing the infrastructure support for PROD, DR, UAT and SIT environments.
  • Actively involved in deployment of JAVA application packages WAR and EAR for and deploying .jar files during upgrade or production bug fixes in application.

Client: Development Bank of Singapore (DBS)

Education

Bachelors of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering

Bapatla Engineering College
Bapatla, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India
04.2008

Skills

    IBM WebSphere/Oracle WebLogic/RedHat Jboss/Tomcat

    IBM HttpServer/Nginx/Apache

    IBM MQ/Solace

    IBM Connect Direct/SSH Tectia

    Docker/Openshift/Kuberenetes

Certification

RedHat OpenShift Certified Administration

RedHat Linux Certified System Administrator

IBM WebSphere Application Server v7.0 Certified System Administrator

Certified in ITIL v3 Foundation

Solace Certified Solutions Consultant

IBM AIX 6.1 Certified System Administrator


Languages

English
Upper intermediate (B2)
Hindi
Upper intermediate (B2)
Telugu
Upper intermediate (B2)

Timeline

Senior IT Architect (Middleware)

NCS Hub
06.2022 - Current

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Quess Corp
06.2020 - 06.2022

IT Consultant

IBM Services Talent Delivery Pte Ltd
04.2015 - 05.2020

Middleware Administrator

Infinite Computer Solutions
03.2011 - 03.2015

Bachelors of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering

Bapatla Engineering College
Yuva Rajesh Chadalavada