ANANTH DODABELE
Cumming,GA
Summary
Solutions-oriented IT Systems/Software Engineer with excellent success in implementing a broad range of IT initiatives. Key player in organizational change with excellent experience in translating business requirements into processes, designs, and solutions. Strong background in applying Site-Reliability Engineering concepts and DevOps methodologies to production application to meet organization’s SLO and SLI objectives. Strong background in Identity Access Management. Excellent cloud Infrastructure and development experience using AWS, Azure and GCP platforms. Over twenty years of success in meeting critical software engineering challenges. Excellent hands-on development skills using Java, C/C++, Python programming languages.
Professional engineer with strong foundation in system reliability and optimization. Known for delivering robust solutions that enhance system performance and reduce downtime. Collaborative team player focused on achieving results and adapting to changing environments. Skilled in automation, incident management, and continuous improvement.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Site Reliability Engineer
EQUIFAX Inc
06.2024 - 12.2024
- Responsibilities: Deploy microservices to Google GCP production environment using GitHub action
- Migrate existing Jenkins build to GitHub actions
- Ensure microservices security using Fortify security scans and infrastructure security using Twistlock
- Deployed microservices application to various GCP environments (Dev, QA, UAT and PROD) using GitHub actions
- Defined workflows to compile and deploy microservices application from various events
- Configured GitHub actions runners and signed to repos
- Migrated old Jenkins builds into GitHub actions
- Used Fortify application software to scan application during CI process and enabled developers to fix issues in the development lifecycle
- Actively involved in production readiness review process (PRR) to certify application readiness to production deployment from a performance, monitoring, security and system readiness perspective
- Analyzed Twistlock scans for any vulnerabilities in running containers, code in repositories and registries
- Used Google Cloud python client to perform basic administration of Kubernetes cluster
- Developed python test classes / scripts to perform end to end testing of Kubernetes application
- Environment: GCP, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Twistlock, python, google-cloud-python library
Reliability Engineer III (Contractor)
Idemia Inc.
09.2023 - 05.2024
- Responsibilities: Monitor and troubleshoot AWS EKS microservices application in production, automation, Implement Observability Stack using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch running on AWS EKS environment
- Automate day to day task using Microsoft Power Automate, Python, Excel
- Analyzed application issues by collecting, observing, and alerting on critical infrastructure and application metrics using Prometheus, Grafana and CloudWatch
- Used SRE concepts to continuously improve application performance to meet the desired performance goals
- Configured Grafana to visualize metrics via dashboards, configured and routed critical production alerts through Teams channel and VictorOps
- Used Terraform to write Infrastructure as code and created terraform scripts for Observability stack and deployed to AWS environment
- Automated reports generation for internal use and end customer billing using Microsoft Power automate, SQL Server and SharePoint
- Developed OpenSearch Dashboards to monitor, display statuses and analyze data of application adoption by end customers for benefit of business analysts and stakeholders
- Developed Python program to analyze transaction data and generate reports and dashboards on adoption of Idemia’s product by end customers
- Developed a python front end application using Flask to connect to OpenSearch using API calls to retrieve logs and other metrics for analyzing data and determining trends
- Environment: AWS, Python / Flask / API, EKS, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Microsoft Power Automate, SharePoint, OpenSearch
Site Reliability/DevOps Engineer (Contractor)
Fiserv Inc.
01.2023 - 06.2023
- Responsibilities: Customize Apigee SaaS and Apigee X environment of Google Cloud Environment
- Enable Continuous Integration of API code using GitLab CI and automate deployment of artifacts to Nexus repositories and proxies to Google Cloud, automate generation of GitLab repositories for CI/CD workflow
- Developed GitLab CI/CD pipeline to automated API deployment to Google Apigee SaaS and X environment
- Uploaded artifacts to Nexus snapshot and released repositories and API proxies to Apigee SaaS and X env using maven plugin via GitLab CI /CD pipeline
- Deployed Apigee Code to GCP using Harness AI tool for higher environments
- Configured virtual machines in Azure to run Gitlab runners and jump servers
- Environment: Apigee SaaS/X, GCP, Azure, GitLab CI/CD, Java, Maven, Git-Flow
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Broadridge Financial Services
05.2022 - 12.2022
- Responsibilities: Automate provisioning and administration of AWS ECS cluster using Terraform and Jenkins CI/CD pipeline, AWS Cluster Configuration using Chef cookbooks and GitLab CI/CD pipeline, Monitoring and logging using Datadog and Splunk
- Support application in Production
- Upgrade ECS cluster with new environments and features
- Configured AWS resources using terraform IaC and deployed using Jenkins CI/CD pipeline
- Performed root cause analysis of production incidents
- Used Splunk and Datadog dashboards to analysis issues in application and recommended solutions to resolve those issues
- Used Chef configuration management tool to create cookbooks to manage and configure AWS infrastructure
- Environment: AWS ECS, Terraform, Jenkins CI/CD, GitLab CI/CD, Chef, Splunk, ECS, Microservices, Datadog
Site Reliability Engineer / Sr DevOps Engineer
Marsh McLennan (ICAT)
02.2021 - 04.2022
- Responsibilities: Automate Data Center provisioning using Ansible and Ansible Tower, Monitoring and Alerting of critical components using Prometheus and AlertManager
- Logging using EFK stack
- Provisioned infrastructure components such as Apache web servers, server for Prometheus, EFK stack, and Jenkins servers using Ansible automation tool
- Configured Prometheus to send critical alerts for all data center components such as application servers, webservers, load balancers and firewalls to development and infrastructure teams through email and slack channel
- Used Elasticsearch, Fluentd and Kibana interface to configure application server logging, Linux and webservers user activity including root level access for server components
- Designed and deployed Jenkins CI/CD pipeline to automated deployment of application code to various environments
- Integrated Jenkins pipeline with Ansible Tower to deploy code to production environment
- Developed Grafana dashboards to alert on critical resources usage for Linux VM’s, Windows servers and java JVM metrics
- Integrated Prometheus with Node Exporter, Windows Exporter and JVM Metrics exporter to collect the desired metrics for observation
- Configured Blackbox exporter to monitor production websites
- Developed python program to check status of web application and application end points with continuous monitoring using Flask and requests objects
- Developed python client program to scrape application performance and JVM metrics from Prometheus end points URLs and analyzed them using Grafana dashboards
- Resolved issues with monitoring, EFK and ansible stack in production
- Environment: Ansible, Ansible Tower, Prometheus, AlertManager, Grafana, EFK, Splunk
Site Reliability Engineer
ForeSite Inc.
10.2020 - 12.2020
- Responsibilities: Automate provisioning through Terraform and Kubernetes, Maintain the reliability, scalability, availability, and security of Foresite platform and applications
- Automated Configuring of AWS EKS cluster using terraform scripts
- Monitored application and services deployed to the cluster using Prometheus operator and sent alerts to slack channel through alert manager service
- Centralized log collection for Kubernetes cluster and application components using EFK stack
- Developed Kibana dashboards for visualization of metrics collected via node exporter and other application components
- Used Kubernetes operator Helm charts to install Prometheus, AlertManager and Grafana and configured to cluster needs
- Analyzed EKS cluster using kubectl, lens and Grafana dashboards for performance and deployment issues and resolved the issues
- Environment: AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, AlertManager, Helm, EFK, CyberArk
Site Reliability Engineer
Equifax Inc
05.2019 - 09.2020
- Responsibilities: Apply Site Reliability Concepts to Production applications, Implement SDLC process from inception and design through deployment, operations and refinement, automation, Incident response, change management, Cloud migration to GCP, Infrastructure automation using terraform and CI/CD automation
- Implemented SDLC process from inception, design, deployment, operations, and refinement through the team process
- Successfully deployed and monitored java spring based microservices application to Google cloud
- Compiled microservices and deployed to GKE using Terraform via Jenkins CI/CD pipeline
- Performed troubleshooting procedures to identify root cause of CI and CD issues in production
- Used Kubectl tool to identify bottlenecks in Kubernetes components deployment in production and its remediation
- Developed and maintained Jenkins shared libraries using groovy for automating all phases of CI/CD process
- Remediated vulnerabilities in GCE and GKE instances using Rapid7 and TwistLock monitoring tools
- Monitored systems for availability, latency and health using AppDynamics and Datadog monitoring tools
- Used Prometheus monitoring tool to monitor Kubernetes cluster and alert on critical issues
- Environment: GCP, Terraform, Dataflow, Splunk, Rapid7, AppDynamics, Datadog, Elasticsearch, Python
Consultant – Information Security – Identity Access BizOps (IABO), DevOps
Mastercard Inc
08.2018 - 05.2019
- Provide Identity Access Lifecycle management solutions to internal and external customers of Mastercard, DevOps, Scripting, Implement DevOps methodologies
- Provided Identity Access Solutions to internal and external customers of Mastercard using RSA Identity Access and Management Lifecycle product (formerly Aveksa)
- Integrated Active Directory with IAM solution
- Configured CyberArk Vault, Unix account, safes, and modified default policy to authenticate to Unix servers
- Implemented DevOps methodologies for automating provisioning of resources on end servers/application for users of Mastercard internal and external client
- Provided access to accounts such as Oracle/Postgres Database, Unix Server and Active Directory using Jenkins, and Rundeck
- Environment: RSA Aveksa, CyberArk, Oracle12i, DevOps, Python, PowerShell
Role: Engineer2 - Security Tools (CyberArk, WhiteHat), Senior Systems Engineer – AWS
Enterprise Holdings Inc
03.2004 - 08.2018
- Responsibilities: Design and Architect J2EE applications for High availability, scalability, failover and Performance under multi-tier dual site environment, Root cause analysis of J2EE components in production environment, WLST and ksh/bash scripting, SSL Encryption, AWS customization using Python/Boto API for EC2 and S3 services
- Lifecycle management of Privileged accounts using CyberArk Privileged Identity Management (PIM) suite of products such as AIM, PSM, PWAA and SSM
- Application/website security management using WhiteHat Static and Dynamic scanning
- Configured CyberArk Privileged Identity Management Solution to onboard and manage Windows Domain Controller accounts, Unix root/user accounts and database system accounts into Cyber-Ark Vault
- Created CyberArk components such as safes, accounts, platform, and application ID for authentication using PWAA
- Configured WebLogic and Tomcat application servers to pull passwords stored in CyberArk Vault using CyberArk Application Identity Manager (AIM) product
- Created CLI scripts to pull password using CyberArk API
- Performed automatic failover and failback of vault services between primary and DR vaults
- Established standards and procedures for implementation of CyberArk PIM solution
- Implemented and customized AWS private cloud environment using Amazon’s EC2 and S3 modules
- Designed and architected WebLogic components for scalability and performance
- Determined root cause analysis of failing J2EE components in production and benchmark environment and implemented corrective measures to rectify issues
- Performed JVM diagnostic using WebLogic WLDF
- Developed and documented standards for administering scripting and deployment of applications
- Provided subject matter expert services for securing / encrypting WebLogic and Tomcat applications using Java keytool / OpenSSL including generating certificate, signing, and importing into keystores
- Environment: CyberArk Whitehat, WebLogic, Linux/AIX, J2EE/Java, WLST, AWS, Scripting
Role: Equipment Master Inquiry Service, Car Events OLTP - UPS, St Louis, MO – Consultant
IGATE Inc
11.2001 - 02.2004
- Developed server-side J2EE components such as entity beans and session beans to support various business processes to access rail car equipment information through Data Access Objects (DAO)
- Used MVC design patterns, struts framework to design application flow and JSP for presentation logic
- Tested the application for various business scenarios and production load
- Developed Pro
- C programs for CRUD operations on DB
- Developed real-time Rail Car Events data using Oracle Database TCS (Mainframe) to enable migration of Inquiry of critical TCS Data away from TCS mainframe to Next-Generation Oracle Database
- Develop and implemented an e-Solutions platform of UPS branded packaging material at the www.ups.com
- Environment: J2EE, WebLogic6.1, XML Spy, Xerces API
Role: Senior Software Engineer – Consultant for Various Dot Com Projects Using BroadVision
iXL, Inc
01.2000 - 07.2001
- Completed several E-commerce initiatives using BroadVision, ATG Dynamo and IPlanet server such as Coke E-Portal platform, Archway Bank, MySkinMD.com, HomeDepot.com and Ballarddesigns.com
Projects: Consultant USWEB/CKS, BellSouth, YMCA
Optech Solutions Inc
07.1998 - 12.1999
- Developed and implemented a stand-alone web-based tool to customize the task of upgrading and augmenting additional features for existing Small Business telephone subscribers
Role: Senior Software Engineer
SQL*Star International, Software Technology Park
04.1997 - 07.1998
- Developed a VC++ application to retrieve data from AS/400 database by using MFC database access components
- Developed ASP pages and used ADODB components
- Developed a web interface using MS-Access and reporting tool for a publishing client
Role: Scientist, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
07.1994 - 04.1997
- Performed statistical analysis of pavement management and material inventory research data collected by extensive field study to develop standards for use in Civil Engineering and transportation industry
Education
Master’s Degree - civil - Highway Engineering
UVCE Bangalore
Bangalore, India06.1991
Bachelor’s degree - civil engineering
University Visveswariah College of Engineering
Bangalore, India02.1988
Google - Associate Cloud Engineer - undefined
08.2020
Skills
- O/S: UNIX (AIX), Linux (RHEL / Centos / Ubuntu), Windows2008R2 /2012
- Programming Languages / tools: Python, Java, C/C
- Cloud: GCP, AWS, Azure, Azure DevOps
- DevOps/SRE: GCP, AWS, Azure, Terraform, Git/Bitbucket, Splunk, Maven, Jira, Confluence, AppDynamics, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, Jenkins, Ansible/Chef/Puppet
- Scripting: Shell (ksh, Bash), Python/Jython, WLST, Windows PowerShell
- Application/Web Server: Oracle WebLogic Server (12c/11/10), Tomcat
- Security tools: CyberArk (CPM, PWAA, PSM, AIM, PACLI), IAM (Aveksa, AWS), Whitehat (DAST, SAST)
- Database: Oracle12, MySQL, SQL-Server65, MS-Access
- Data Science / Machine Learning: NumPy, Pandas, MySQL, Scikit-learn, Microsoft Power Automate, Excel
- Infrastructure automation
- Configuration management
- Containerization technologies
- System monitoring
Accomplishments
- Documented and resolved [Issue] which led to [Results].
- Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
Certification
- Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
- AWS and DevOps Fundamentals – Cloud Academy
- Enterprise Architecture Using TOGAF
- Apache Web Server / Perl / PHP course: - CAIT - Washington University
- BEA WebLogic Server10.0: Advanced System Administration - Oracle Corp
- Broadvision Application Server Customization – Broadvision
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Site Reliability Engineer
EQUIFAX Inc
06.2024 - 12.2024
Reliability Engineer III (Contractor)
Idemia Inc.
09.2023 - 05.2024
Site Reliability/DevOps Engineer (Contractor)
Fiserv Inc.
01.2023 - 06.2023
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Broadridge Financial Services
05.2022 - 12.2022
Site Reliability Engineer / Sr DevOps Engineer
Marsh McLennan (ICAT)
02.2021 - 04.2022
Site Reliability Engineer
ForeSite Inc.
10.2020 - 12.2020
Site Reliability Engineer
Equifax Inc
05.2019 - 09.2020
Consultant – Information Security – Identity Access BizOps (IABO), DevOps
Mastercard Inc
08.2018 - 05.2019
Role: Engineer2 - Security Tools (CyberArk, WhiteHat), Senior Systems Engineer – AWS
Enterprise Holdings Inc
03.2004 - 08.2018
Role: Equipment Master Inquiry Service, Car Events OLTP - UPS, St Louis, MO – Consultant
IGATE Inc
11.2001 - 02.2004
Role: Senior Software Engineer – Consultant for Various Dot Com Projects Using BroadVision
iXL, Inc
01.2000 - 07.2001
Projects: Consultant USWEB/CKS, BellSouth, YMCA
Optech Solutions Inc
07.1998 - 12.1999
Role: Senior Software Engineer
SQL*Star International, Software Technology Park
04.1997 - 07.1998
Role: Scientist, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), India
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
07.1994 - 04.1997
Google - Associate Cloud Engineer - undefined
Master’s Degree - civil - Highway Engineering
UVCE Bangalore
Bachelor’s degree - civil engineering
University Visveswariah College of Engineering
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