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