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Vishal Karwa

Vishal Karwa

Abu Dhabi

Summary

Seasoned DevOps and Middleware Administrator with 7+ years experience. Proven track record of optimizing software development processes and enhancing system performance. Proficient in implementing continuous integration and deployment pipelines, automating infrastructure provisioning, and ensuring seamless integration of middleware technologies.



Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Devops Engineer

Daman Insurance (Contract)
Abu Dhabi
12.2022 - Current
  • Designed and implemented a disaster recovery plan that reduced system downtime by 50%, ensured business continuity and uptime, during critical outages
  • Developed and maintained scripts and tools to automate operational tasks, reducing manual effort by 80% and improving team productivity up to 33%
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement initiatives, promoting agile development and faster delivery times
  • Leveraged cost efficiency strategies in the redesign of old systems leading to a 20% reduction in operation costs
  • Contributed to the development of CI/CD pipeline, for Continuous improvement
  • Experience in WebLogic, WebSphere and Jboss for deployments and support
  • Experience in AWS Cloud infrastructure and AWS Services like EC2, VPC, ELB, Auto-Scaling, Security groups, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, AWS CloudFormation
  • Updated patches on regular intervals to comply with Security Compliance and network security
  • Implemented and maintained industry standards for continuous integration and deployment pipelines, enhancing the overall efficiency of the development process
  • Creating access control based users and integration with LDAP to minimize Business risks and improve system reliability
  • Worked on F5 load balancing, LTM, GTM to manage loads in webservers as well as application servers.

WebLogic Administrator and DevOps Engineer

Edirham
Bangalore
07.2018 - 11.2022
  • Installed and configured end to end comprehensive environments which included WebLogic, Nginx, Oracle HTTP server, JBoss
  • Handled Environment DEV, SIT, PIT, UAT, CE, PROD for various releases and designed capacity planning
  • Worked on extension of UAT env, to make it replica of Prod and get rid of CE environment, hence reduced cost for maintenance of servers by 20%
  • Developed automation processes that significantly improved Operational Efficiency within the development and operations teams
  • Involved in the Installation and configuration of Various CI/CD tools like SVN, GIT, Maven, Jenkins
  • Managed daily Infrastructure Management tasks to ensure seamless operation of organizational systems
  • Gained a solid understanding of Devops Principles and iterative improvement environments
  • Involved in dealing with vendors and support teams in troubleshooting and fixing critical as well as day-to-day problems of applications
  • Used JIRA custom workflows to track the changes and issues
  • Maintained good customer relation skills and troubleshooting skills in production based env.

L2 Support Analyst

Vodafone UK
Bangalore
11.2016 - 06.2018
  • Handling Incident response and change activities, to maintain issue resolution SLA’s on time
  • Monitoring and taking actions for Production env according to the issues identified
  • Demonstrated high potential for process improvement and system improvement during tenure
  • Worked on PL/SQL language to query Oracle DB
  • Used AppDynamics & Splunk tools effectively to monitor server performance, Deployment of web and enterprise applications and their updates in Production as well as lower env's
  • Involved in Release management like planning, scheduling, and deploying releases
  • Performed analysis of Logs Thread Dump and JVM
  • Hands-on experience in UNIX command line utilities
  • Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure.

Education

B.Tech -

Maulana Abdul Kalam University (WBUT) - Kolkata, India
07.2012 - 05.2016

Skills

  • Unix Administrations
  • WebLogic 12c/19c
  • JBoss Application
  • Shell Scripting
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • SVN
  • GIT
  • WebSphere
  • Java Support
  • Network Firewall Management
  • AWS Sysops Admin
  • Oracle Service Bus
  • Oracle SOA
  • BMC Remedy
  • ITSM
  • JIRA
  • Splunk
  • AppDynamics

Certification

  • AWS Sysops Admin, 2022, AWS
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner, 2022, AWS

Timeline

Devops Engineer

Daman Insurance (Contract)
12.2022 - Current

WebLogic Administrator and DevOps Engineer

Edirham
07.2018 - 11.2022

L2 Support Analyst

Vodafone UK
11.2016 - 06.2018

B.Tech -

Maulana Abdul Kalam University (WBUT) - Kolkata, India
07.2012 - 05.2016

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