SUMMARY:

• Having 6 plus years of Middleware Engineer with expertise in a wide range of IT disciplines specializing in IBM WebSphere DataPower XI50/52, IBM WebSphere Application Server, WSRR, DP Buddy in all facets of Administration, Maintenance, Integration including Installation and Configuration, Deployments.
• Strong experience in providing end - to-end integration solutions and involved in Requirements Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation, Maintenance Support and Administration of Enterprise Application Integration and Data Integration Technologies and Services on multiple platforms.
• Administration experience in DataPower appliances for Deploying, Migration of services, upgrading firmware.
• Understanding of custom changes and extensions to IBM Security Identity Manager and IBM Security Access Manager.
• Strong development and administration experience in IBM DataPower XS40, XI50/52/XG45/XB62 appliances.
• Developed enterprise solutions for clients in Retail, Utility, Insurance and Healthcare.
• Experienced in creating the architectural design documents, service interface documents, service specification documents.
• Extensive experience in design and development of services on DataPower to provide security, transformation, routing, legacy integration, and composite service functionalities.
• Experience in DataPower development, troubleshooting, services instrumentation, monitoring and logging.
• Experience in working with QMON, MQ Attach, ITCAM, DP Buddy and Log analytic server.
• Experience in Designing, Implementing, Support, Deploying, Trouble Shooting and Administration.
• Experience in setting up and maintain the policies and configuring rules and actions with DataPower services of MPGW, XML firewall, Web Server Proxy and Web Application Proxy.
• Strong experience in Implementation Security features like AAA, SSL Authentication and OAUTH.
• Experience in working with XML, Non-XML, COBOL copy books, REST and JSON based DataPower services.
• Developed and Maintained Web Services with Message Broker Performed End-To- End flow testing for the ESB services using WMB toolkit.
• Worked on WMB-MQ, WMB-WTX and WTX-DP integration, API Management Message sets, Web services, File management, MQ using point to point and Pub/sub messaging features.
• Experience in configuration of Static mounts and XML Scheduler policies.
• Experience in DataPower troubleshooting, services instrumentation, monitoring and logging.
• Experience in DataPower Administration using SOMA scripts and WEBGUI in DataPower for administration tasks for deployment’s, monitoring the health checks and services.
• Experience in working with security concepts like authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signatures and SSL. Experience in working with Gateway script.
• Good knowledge in working with SPLUNK to monitor logs.
• Experience in working with API Management for creation of resources, plans, policies and security objects.
• Designed and Created API’s by assembling REST-based and SOAP-based services for mobile and web interfaces.
• Defined Role-based access for viewing and working with the APIs and that facilitates the ability to have more than one developer portal to support more than multiple developer communities (private, partner, and public), with controlled visibility
• Defined and created API plans that treat the APIs as product offerings, and allow several APIs and resources per plan
• Enabled API Analytics to capture the usage metrics to support the SLA’s and capacity planning of the integration environment.
• Used Swagger JSON definitions for automation of API documentation and publishing.
• Have very good experience in transforming JSON API’s to SOAP based web service calls to integrate with backend applications like WebSphere Message Broker, WPS.
• Requesting COMODO certificates and creating public and private keys.
• Provided 24x7 on call support for all the production on rotation basis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris, HP, AIX, Linux, Windows 98/NT/2000/XP.

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server, Tomcat.

Messaging: IBM WebSphere MQ & JMS, WMB.

Web Services Technologies: XML, XSD, XSLT, XPATH, WSDL, SOAP, REST API, WS-Security.

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) / Integration Tools: WebSphere Message Broker 7.x, IBM WebSphere DataPower XI50/XI52 Firmware - 3.x/4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x, IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender 8.2

Testing Tools: RFHUTIL, CURL, Soap-UI, Postman Chrome plugin, HP Quality Center

Databases: Oracle, MY SQL Server, DB2.

Java Technologies: Core Java, J2EE.

Protocols: HTTP/HTTPS, MQ, TCP/IP, FTP.

Other Tools: PVCS, MS Visio, Stylus Studio, XML SPY, BEYOND COMPARE, SOAP UI, Clear case, SPLUNK, LDAP, COBOL copy books, DP Buddy, QMON, MQ Attach and Volumetric server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Marlborough-MA.

MLINFRA Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Upgrading the DataPower alliance physical and virtual appliance across all the environments.
• Raising firewall requests based on the internal and external clients through service now.
• Rapid scan checks for DataPower compliance and necessary actions.
• Deployments through DP Buddy. Trouble shooting the connectivity issues.
• Reprocessing the messages using MQMON and MQ Attach.
• Transaction analysis in DataPower using ITCAM and Log Analytics.
• Enabled the call strings to avoid the week ciphers attacks in FSH for reverse SSL proxy profiles.
• Creating the WSRR servers to pool the artifacts from the WSRR.
• Taking the secure backups and storing the backups in jump box.
• Monitoring the CPU health check and WSRR heap utilization status.
• Creating the log targets for cert expiry notifications using log targets and cert monitor objects.
• Analyzing the incidents and provide the solutions to the application team.
• Raising PMR’s and follow with the IBM until the fix implemented.
• Created SFTP pooler front side handlers to handle the inbound transactions and configuring SFTP client profiles.
• Configured user agents and added virtual feeds in the front side handlers.
• Configure Ethernet interfaces based on the appliance and the type of service.
• Configure OAUTH in ISAM and implemented with DataPower. Taking the snapshots and creating the ACL’s in ISAM.
• Configured SSL proxy profiles and AAA for authentication and handshaking.
• Configured Load balancer groups and ODR groups and connectors to communicate with IIB and WAS.
• Configured XML managers for each service and updating with user agent and SSH client details.
• Monitoring the Queue depth, Queue manager status and back out Queues using MQ Monitoring tool.
• Installation of WSRR runtime and governance for the 8.5.* using GEP model.
• Raised firewall requests to make our IP’s whitelisted in the F5 zone of the provider end.
• Handled the incidents assigned to our group and raised change request if required.
• Provided on call support as per the rotational basis to monitor and fix the heap utilization, cert issues or any production issues.
• Experienced in creating the architectural design documents, service interface documents, service specification documents.
• Involved in triaging and managing defects using HPQC.
• Extensively configured reusable Policies and Rules in DataPower MPG, XML Firewall and constantly monitored Web Service Proxy using default SLM. XML data validations using customized and available source XSD Validation Frameworks and Jenkins.

Environment: IBM DataPower XI50/52s, WSRR, SPLUNK, SOAP UI, XSLT, Beyond Compare, LDAP server, ISAM web/mobile, WAS.IIB, MQFTE.

Confidential

Senior Associate Consultant /DataPower with Infosys

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in creating the architectural design documents, service interface documents, service specification documents.
• Analyzing business requirements, create design specification documents, component specification documents.
• Installed, configured, and administrated IBM DataPower XS40/XI50.
• Experience in creating, configuring and administration of various objects of DataPower appliance such as WS-proxy, XML firewall, SSL Proxy Profiles, Multi-Protocol Gateway, Load Balancer Groups, Deployment Policy, AAA Policy and many other DataPower objects and policies.
• Configured Multi-Protocol Gateway (MPGW), WS-Proxy, XML Fire Wall, Crypto Profile.
• Developed WS security templates and configured WS security policies.
• Enabled security on Data Power appliance and, tested end-to-end using external tools like SOAPUI.
• Configured Data Power for all Web Service operations including WS-Proxy, WS-Security.
• Integrated DataPower with MQ, Sun One Directory Server (LDAP).
• Experienced in using MQ tool like RFHUTIL to test end-to-end synchronous and asynchronous use cases and also several load tests.
• Configured XML Firewall loop back proxy to test all the configurations in multiple steps.
• Configured Deployment Policy for exporting and importing domains.
• Configured on AAA Policy for authentication and authorization steps.
• Configured error policies within IBM DataPower to handle errors returned by back-end applications.
• Performed several negative tests for different configurations.
• Integrated and configured with WSRR (WebSphere Service Registry and Repository) and WTX (WebSphere Transformation Extender).
• Configured IBM DataPower with XML components, document processing rules, document processing actions, XPath Routing Map, Duration Monitor, Log targets.
• Build services to perform service orchestration, integrate REST APIs with web services and expose composite services using DataPower.
• Educate the team in building DataPower interfaces while following best practices.
• Provide regular status updates to all the stakeholders including clients.
• Responsible for architecture, people management and project management.
• Responsible for creating the mapping spread sheets and unit test cases.
• Responsible for code reviews and tracking the defects.
• Involved in triaging and managing defects using HPQC.
• Built transaction-logging capability for the DataPower services to understand the services behavior using ILS Logging.
• Developed XSL transformations for XML to XML, XML to Binary, Binary to XML, XML to SOAP, and SOAP to XML with necessary error handling.
• Development of cache mechanism in XML Manager for recursive backend calls.
• Configured XI50/XI52 to protect against XML threats, malformed XML documents and hidden SQL statements.
• Configured User Groups and access privileges. Basic Administration using SOMA and WEBUI.
• Configured Filter action for SQL injections.
• Configured a Multi-protocol gateway services to provide HTTP, HTTPS, MQ Connections for required services.
• Configured XI50 /XI52 for any-to-any transformation using WebSphere Transformation Extender.
• Involved in the creation and configuration of AAA Services, MPGW (Multi-Protocol Gateway) & WSP Services and XLST transformations in Data power.
• Demonstrated AAA policy to authenticate and authorize against LDAP server using basic authentication and Identity extracted from WSSE Soap Header for retrieving Customer Details.
• Configured XI50 to WSRR (Web Service Registry and repository) for access all core Web services.
• Configured Log targets to log the payloads to external servers.
• Responsible for creating SSL Proxy Profiles, Crypto Certificates, Crypto Key, Identification credentials, Validation credential Objects.
• Responsible for creating MQ Queue Manager Objects in DataPower.
• Responsible for programming custom XSLT’s in DataPower.
• Developed, updated, and corrected WSRR and DataPower design documentation based on research, and issues uncovered during implementation.
• Responsible for creating ESB flows to connect to DataPower and to do a lookup in decision tables using ESB.
• Worked in creation of Plans, resources, user registry, organizations, environments, API and providing the access to consumers using API Management.
• Provided 24x7 on call support for all the production on rotation basis.

Environment: IBM DataPower XI50/52s, WSRR, SPLUNK, SOAP UI, XSLT, Beyond Compare, LDAP server, WTX, Site Minder, ESB, Portal, MQ, APIGEE.

Confidential

DataPower Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design and development of ESB architecture on DataPower XI50 to integrate existing and new applications and web services for transformation, routing and mediation.
• Implementing security services on DataPower XI50 for Authentication, Authorization and Auditing purposes.
• Implemented Security concepts like Authentication, Authorization and Auditing using WS Security method, Basic Authorization Header etc.,
• Created Gateway for inbound and outbound traffic such as web services (SOAP, REST) including mutual authentication.
• Developing solutions for integrating different applications - Configuring MPG (Multi-Protocol Gateway)'s and WSP (Web Service Proxy)'s.
• Experience in working with Mobile Application and JAX-RS.
• Configuring Front Side Handler and Back-End Connectivity including HTTP, HTTPS, JMS, MQ Resource, SSH Setup involving various XML Threats.
• Configured various actions while defining rules and policies like Transform action, AAA Action, Match Rule, Encryption, Decryption, Filter action, Validate, Route and various others.
• Developed XSL's for message transformation including Error handling and well versed with DataPower extensions. Also configured AAA action based on information available for Digital Signatures, Certificates, and generating key pairs and in accordance configuring mapping resources and mapping credentials.
• Experience in creation of log targets and logging the messages to SPLUNK and MQ to HTTP Server.
• Extensively configured reusable Policies and Rules in DataPower MPG, XML Firewall and constantly monitored Web Service Proxy using default SLM. XML data validations using customized and available source XSD Validation Frameworks.
• Installed and configured Sun One LDAP server for both DataPower and WebSphere Application Server and secured the application server using both LDAP server and Local OS authentication.
• Strong in debug, troubleshooting various issues by using logs, probes and problem determination tools which are available in DataPower device.
• Created and managed log targets including user management, device configurations including domain creation, updating latest firmware versions.
• Experience in working with ACORD R4 SOAP standards.
• Development of Message flows having various patterns as per the Technical design document.
• Designed and developed message flows using ESQL in compute node.
• Created MQ topology, Queues and channels. Define message sets using XSDs and Copy books.
• Used ESQL for routing and enrichment of incoming messages in compute and filter nodes.
• Coded the ESQL for compute node, Database nodes in message flow nodes.
• Used ESQL to execute database, stored procedures, to get information from database tables, views.
• Developed message flows using Collector, Java Compute, Compute, Mapping, JMS, Timer nodes to do transformation, aggregation & Collection of Messages.
• Responsible for JavaScript, jQuery and presentation layer libraries preferred
• Participate in release, build and deployment activities for all the modules as per the release plan.

Environment: IBM WebSphere DataPower, XS40, XI52, SOAP UI, BPM, JDK 1.6, Eclipse IDE, SVN, Maven IBM API Management, Portal, JAVA, HTML, XML, JSF 2.2, JSP, JDBC.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst with Cognizant

Responsibilities:

• Created multiple Web service proxies, XML Firewalls, Multi-Protocol Gateway including MQ, HTTP's, HTTP, FTP Front and Back side handlers.
• Implemented mutual authentication between DataPower Appliances and various application servers like LINUX Systems.
• Analyzing business requirements, create design specification document and Technical design documents.
• Created AAA action in incoming processing policy for validating various client requests in DataPower appliance.
• Configured REST APIs through MPGW and exposed services for external third parties.
• Configured log targets using syslog/file formats to send the logs to enterprise logging server SPLUNK.
• Integrated WTX Maps in DataPower for Cobol to xml transformations.
• Configured dynamic routing based on URI context using custom XSL’s for connecting to multiple destinations.
• Handled exceptions using on error action in processing rules to capture schema validation, back end errors etc.
• Configured static mounts to connect to the external servers.
• Designed logging subsystems to capture significant events related to DataPower user administrative activities and also administered various Log files using log analyzer, Product logs, Installation logs, Administer server logs.
• Experience in configuring the resources, Plans and adding the resources to the plans.
• Responsible for creating ESB flows to connect to DataPower and to do a lookup in decision tables using ESB.
• Extensively configured reusable Policies and Rules in DataPower MPG, XML Firewall and constantly monitored Web Service Proxy using default SLM. XML data validations using customized and available source XSD Validation Frameworks.
• Experience in configuring SLM and creation of static mounts.
• Created Message Flows and Message Sets using Toolkit and deployed to broker runtime.
• Created test data for web services and Cobol copy books and performed testing in all the environment’s.
• Developed common flows for Error handling, logging and for Email notifications.
• Created WTX maps and deployed dpa files in the DataPower appliance for transformation.
• Extensively developed xslts for transforming client payloads to provider proprietary format.
• Created technical design documents and mapping spread sheets and maintained in clear case.

Environment: IBM DataPower XI50/52s, WSRR, SPLUNK, SOAP UI, XSLT, Beyond Compare, LDAP server, WTX, Site Minder, ESB, Portal.