Cassandra Admin Resume
Whippany, NJ
OBJECTIVE
- Seeking challenging career in IT sector to get a position of responsibility, using my skills and efficiency to communicate my ideas & views and commit myself for achieving organizational objectives with the team effort and my positive attitude and best performance.
SUMMARY
- Around 8 years of experience as an Oracle Database Administrator including over 3+ years of experience as Cassandra Administrator providing 24*7 production database support with Support to developers & end - users on call support & coordination with offshore teams.
- In-depth knowledge of Apache Cassandra and Datastax Enterprise Cassandra.
- In-depth knowledge in Cassandra read, writes paths and internal architecture.
- In-depth knowledge on read and write processes, including SSTables, MemTables and Commitlog.
- Worked with installing, configuring and monitoring Apache Cassandra cluster
- Used Datastax OpsCenter and Node tool utilities to monitor the cluster.
- Actively Involved in expanding clusters like adding New Datacenter to existing clusters, Node addition and removing Dead Nodes.
- Designing data models in Cassandra and working with Cassandra Query Language (CQL).
- Worked in creating column Family’s; bootstrapping, decommissioning, removing, replacing, and repairing nodes.
- Worked in creating key spaces, tables and secondary indexes in Cassandra
- Worked in setting up the required replication factors for key spaces
- Experience in efficiently managing backup and restoring data in live Cassandra Cluster.
- Utilized Cassandra tools including sstableloader,sstable2json and json2sstable, COPY for application data loading and analysis
- Has Strong knowledge in Performance Tuning of databases and fixed many complex performances related issues.
- Troubleshooting read/write latency and timeout issues in Cassandra
- Hands-on experience in commissioning and decommissioning nodes along with monitoring of Cassandra Cluster.
- Work on Linux Virtual Machines (LVM) using VMware Virtual Center.
- Experience of doing Cassandra upgrades to Major & latest versions.
- Designed framework for doing migration from RDBMS to Cassandra.
- Experience in porting existing patches from community to Cassandra nodes.
- Involved in doing fine tuning for HEAP, GC, THP settings in Cassandra nodes.
- Hands on experience in Installing, Migrating, Upgrading and Maintaining different Oracle versions on UNIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows Platforms.
- Experienced in setting up/installation and configuration of 11g RAC/10g RAC
- Hands on experience in Oracle 11g/10g databases with RAC cluster and ASM administration.
- 24*7 Production Database Support to ensure availability, efficiency and recoverability.
- Highly motivated, creative, fast learner and good communication skill.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming Languages: Java, C, C++, PL/SQL, C#
Web Technologies: HTML, HTML5, CSS, XML, JavaScript, PHP, Hadoop
Relational Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, JDBC, Oracle 9i,10g
NoSQL Databases: Apache Cassandra 1.1/1.2./2.1/3.0 , DataStax 3.2/3.2/4.0/4.6/4.7/4.8/5.0/5.0
Scripting: Shell Scripting, Python.
Cloud Technologies: AWS, Google Cloud.
Tools: & IDEs: Visual Studio, Eclipse, MySQL Workbench, Net Beans, Visual Basic, OpsCenter, DevCenter
Operating System: UNIX, Solaris, RedHat Linux, CentOS and Windows
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Whippany, NJ
Cassandra Admin
Responsibilities:
- Worked with business users to define user requirements and business rules; ensured overall solutions met SLA (performance and uptime), DR, and scalability.
- Tuned Cassandra for efficient operation using multiple views into system metrics, including OS stats, GC logs, JMX, Opscenter, and cassandra-stress.
- Created and supported one Cassandra cluster with 48 nodes for the inventory purpose.
- Involved in the process of designing Cassandra Architecture.
- Designed and Automated the process of installation and configuration of secure DataStax Enterprise Cassandra cluster using puppet.
- Monitoring and automated data backup on Cassandra cluster.
- Responsible for availability and performance of online databases.
- Tuned the cluster to achieve maximum throughput and execution time based on the benchmarking results.
- Implemented DataStax Hadoop solution to integrate promotional data with enterprise Hadoop cluster.
- Performed Stress and Performance testing, benchmark on the cluster.
- Knowledge on bootstrapping, removing, replicating the nodes in Cassandra and Solr clusters.
- Migrated the data from one datacenter to another datacenter.
- Configured, Documented and Demonstrated inter node communication between Cassandra nodes and client using SSL encryption.
- Imported data from various resources to the Cassandra cluster using Java APIs.
- Working closely with DataStax to resolve issues on cluster using ticketing mechanism.
- Moved the Cassandra data from old cluster to new cluster on production and lower environments with minimal application downtime.
- Configured Performance Tuning and Monitoring for Cassandra Read and Write processes for fast I/O operations and low latency time.
- Involved in database deployments, capacity planning, monitoring multi datacenters, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge on Google cloud compute engine and AWS instances.
- Excellent knowledge on Cassandra Architecture, Read/Write Paths, CQL Data Modelling, Replication Strategies and Consistency Levels.
- Experience in implementing security, control, integrity and accessibility of the data.
Confidential, Bellevue, WA
Oracle Database Administrator/Cassandra Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Worked on database refreshes.
- Fixed disk space issues on production servers.
- Monitored production databases.
- Analyzed available databases scripts such as RMAN and data pump scripts.
- Worked on designing data models for AWS databases.
- Created physical and logical data models.
- Worked on creating 12c databases on Amazon AWS.
- Scheduled database backups.
- Fixed performance issues on 12c on AWS.
- Applied latest cpu patches every quarter.
- Installed Cassandra and created cluster on Linux.
- Worked on Designing Data models for Cassandra clusters on 3.0 DataStax Enterprise (DSE) environment.
- Installed Cassandra and created cluster on windows.
- Worked on CQL (Cassandra Query Language).
- Configured backups.
- Used OpsCenter to monitor Clusters.
- Fixed performance tuning issues on Cassandra cluster.
- Worked on migrating data from Oracle to Cassandra databases.
- Worked on Adding and Removing Nodes.
- Worked on Repairing Nodes.
- Configured Memtable thresholds.
- Performed Backups and Disaster Recovery activities in DataStax Enterprise (DSE) environment.
- Applied network listener patches.
Confidential, Irving, TX
Cassandra DBA
Responsibilities:
- Design a solution to load existing data from MS Sql Server to Apache Cassandra.
- Designed Cassandra data model for single sign on application.
- Responsible for availability and performance of CXP (Covalent Xtreme Performance), SSO
- (SingleSignOn), Cassandra shared Prod and lower environments.
- Enabled spark on Separate datacenter on CXP cluster to run data analytics on Cassandra data.
- Performed backup and recovery on Cassandra nodes.
- Performed node tool repair to make data on nodes inconsistent.
- Performed Tuned Cassandra cluster.
- Configured Performance Tuning and Monitoring for Cassandra Read and Write processes for fast I/O operations and low latency time.
- Configured accordingly to achieve maximum throughput and execution time based on the bench marking results.
- Have knowledge on deploying DataStax enterprise on Google Cloud and Amazon cloud services.
- Involved in the process of data mover for disaster recovery platforms Backup and recovery.
- Performed cleanup operations on Cassandra nodes.
- Performed Cassandra Cluster Rolling upgrades.
- Knowledge on set up Cassandra wide monitoring scripts and alerting system.
Confidential
Oracle DBA
Responsibilities:
- Administration and troubleshooting 24*7 Production Database Server.
- Responsible for administration and supporting Oracle 11g/10g databases.
- Administration on Oracle 10g/11g Data Guard (Physical & Logical Standby DB)
- Creating new database for Developers and users, roles related to the database .
- Implemented Hot, Cold and Logical backup plans.
- Backup and Recovery using RMAN.
- Index rebuilding, granting roles and privileges, creating partitions and moving tables.
- Troubleshooting Space Management issues.
- Maintaining the database availability and security.
- Maintaining Table spaces (Adding or resizing Data files).
- Expertise in Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM).
- Database performance/Statement tuning, Table sizing, and administration.
- Sql Tuning and analyzing statements with Trace Analyzer and Explain plan.
- Using TKPROF, EXPLAIN PLAN for the Better performance.
- Creating indexes, views, sequences on daily basis in order to enhance the performance of the database.
Confidential
Junior Oracle DBA
Responsibilities:
- Offline OS backup of Application/Database
- Online logical backup of Entire Database / User Schema
- Generate weekly reports on data integrity
- To ensure utmost accuracy of financial transactions and completeness of
- Ensuring auditing and manufacturing documentation is kept up to date
- Managing users accounts Creating New Roles / Users / Profiles.
- Granting access on tables/views depending on job they do
- Managing tablespaces Dropping / Creating Tablespaces.
- Modifying Storage Parameters for Table spaces depending on application requirement
- Managing Rollback segments. Dropping/Creating Rollback segments with appropriate storage parameters to reduce waits.
- Designing Data storage for New Applications Database Tuning. Identifying and resolving contention with respect to Disk IO, Redo Logs and Rollback