SUMMARY

• Well Qualified Consultant with Seven years of experience in administration, development, testing, support and implementation of web, middleware and API Technologies across Finance and Retail domains
• Expertise in SOA Appliances like IBM DataPower XG45, XB62 and XI52(Physical and Virtual).
• Strong in communication protocols like SOAP, HTTP, HTTPS and MQ
• Extensive knowledge in SOA, Web Services, SOAP, WSDL, WS Security and UDDI.
• Expertise in implementation of protocol level security like HTTPS and Message level security like Encryption, Digital signatures using DataPower appliance.
• Expertise in XML, XSD, XSLT, WSDL, SOAP, JSON and XPATH.
• Expertise in configuring & creating components of DataPower appliance such as Web Service Proxy, Multi Protocol Gateway, XML and Web Firewall.
• Implementation of RBM, AAA and SLM functionalities in DataPower appliances.
• Experience in implementing Post Authentication tokens like LTPA token and SAML Assertion.
• Message transformations using XSL including custom XSLs for routing and protocol mediation.
• Knowledge of OAuth 2.0 framework implementation using DataPower as Authorization Server.
• Sound knowledge of Load balancers, firewalls, DMZ and network related concepts in DataPower.
• Technical specs for the configuration, interfaces and deploying the configurations in production.
• Applying security polices certificates, encryption and SAML.
• Transformations for XML to XML, XML to Binary, Binary to XML with exception handling.
• Integration to enable seamless data flow between enterprise and e - commerce B2B applications.
• Good knowledge in designing and development of REST API's for Mobile integration.
• Implemented DataPower as API gateway and Integration gateway for IIB applications.
• Knowledge of Swagger 2.0 and Node.js framework in developing Loopback API's.
• Securing API's by API Key authentication and enforcing rate limit plans.
• Managing users, organizations, catalogs and gathering Analytics using API Manager.
• Experience in design, development and publishing services as API's using IBM API Connect.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

Middleware Technologies: IBM WebSphere MQ, WAS, IIB

Databases: DB2, Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server

SOA Appliances: DataPower XG45, XB62 and XI52(Physical and Virtual)

Web Servers: IBM Http Server, Apache, Tomcat, and Sunone

Protocols: TCP/IP, SMTP, SSL, SOAP, REST, LDAP and HTTP/HTTPS

Other Tools: MS Project, MS Visio, SOAP UI, XML SPY, Wire Shark, CVS

API Management: IBM API Connect v5.0, Swagger 2.0, Node.js API Framework

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Florida

DataPower Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design and development of Interfaces by using DataPower XI52 Appliance.
• Designed and developed various XSL’s for message transformation including XML to XML, XML to Binary formats including content based routing and schema validation for message well format.
• Proficient in executing CLI commands along with Web GUI and XML Management Interface for IBM DataPower administrative tasks.
• Successfully configured DataPower components including WS Proxy, XML Firewall, Multiprotocol Gateway (MPGW) and Web Firewall.
• Implemented securing external Web services using several authentication schemes in DataPower WS-Security, Digitally Signing SOAP message and SSL mutual authentication.
• Developed various XSL’s for dynamic routing based on context, error handling in various processing rules.
• Administered IBM WebSphere DataPower using management interfaces, such as command-line interface (CLI), Web GUI, SOMA to upgrade DP firmware, to monitor system performance and to configure user accounts.
• Configured various objects like Crypto Profiles, Load Balancer groups, Websphere MQ objects, HTTPS, HTTP, MQ and FTP Handlers.
• Configured various actions in processing rules like AAA, SLM and Transform including available functions in advanced actions.
• Experience in establishing various security policies in DataPower like Mutual Authentication, sign, verify, encryption and decryption.
• Developed and configured firewall policies for DataPower.
• Configured DataPower XML components, document processing rules, document processing actions, XPath Routing Map, Duration Monitor, Log targets.
• Strong in configuring SLM including shape, notify, throttle for maintaining service level agreements between partners.
• Strong knowledge in DataPower extensions including developing custom XSL’s for transformation, routing.
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues. Monitoring the server logs, error logs and resolved production issues.
• Involved in opening and working on PMR’s with IBM to solve issue related to the environment. Enabled traces as part of troubleshooting and used collector tool to submit the logs and traces to IBM enabling various traces and taking packet captures.
• Configured DataPower to communicate with IIB services via MQ and SOAP over HTTPS.
• Developed LoopBack API's for Interest Rate application using API developer toolkit.
• Defined API Gateway policies for enforcing security and controlling API traffic.
• Leveraged IBM API Connect solution for securing and managing internal REST and SOAP services as API's and further published in Developer Portal for external App developers.

Confidential, Atlanta

DataPower Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured Web services proxy (WSP) to provide service virtualization.
• Use the multi-protocol gateway (MPG) to support message types with different protocols.
• Configured Front side Protocol Handlers.
• Configured Cryptographic keys and SSL Policies.
• Involved in configuring load balancer groups on DataPower appliance for providing high availability solutions
• Worked in debug, troubleshooting various issues by using logs, probes and problem determination tools which are available in DataPower appliance
• Created and managed log targets including user management, device configurations including domain creation, updating latest firmware versions
• Developed several proof of concepts prior finalizing architecture and design of various interfaces in DataPower
• Developed error policies within DataPower to handle errors returned by backend applications.
• Strong knowledge in DataPower extensions including developing custom XSL’s for transformation, routing.
• Documented all procedures and any other important issues. Monitoring the server logs, error logs and resolved production issues.
• Configured DataPower XML components, document processing rules, document processing actions, XPath Routing Map, Duration Monitor, Log targets
• 24x7 production support, Debugging and troubleshooting issues by using logs, probes, monitoring, performance tuning, security and maintenance.

Confidential, Chicago

DataPower Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creation and administration of users and roles on the appliance
• Implementation of SSL Profile
• Configuring service-wide SLM on WS-Proxy Service to enforce basic service levels
• Debugging message flow’s using diagnostic Probe configuration
• Trouble shooting Network connectivity issues
• Performing binary to XML mapping using WebSphere Transformation Extender
• Configuration of MQ-Front side handler to communicate with WebSphere MQ
• Created AAA policy to authenticate and authorize using LDAP server
• Worked on Web Services encryption and digital signatures
• Configured a multi-protocol gateway service to provide both HTTP and HTTPS connections for the Web Services
• Configured XI50 to WSRR (Web Service Registry and repository) for access all core Web services.
• Created XSLT’s for transformation of XML
• Configures a service level monitoring policy to monitor the network traffic to the back end Web Services

Confidential, NJ

DataPower Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creation and administration of users and roles on the appliance
• Created MQ related objects in DataPower including SSL proxy profiles for Forward and Reverse directions.
• Developed several Proofs of concepts on various DataPower services like Web Service proxy, MPGW and XML Firewall.
• Created Load Balancer groups for HIGH Availability on the backend application servers like WebSphere Application Server etc.
• Developed few XSL's for dynamic routing in MPGW like URI mediation for Inbound/Outbound traffic to DataPower.
• Created documentation on proof of concepts on services like Web Service proxy, Multi-Protocol Gateway and XML Firewall.
• Configured MQ, HTTP/HTTPs Front Side, and Back Side Handlers, processing policies for request and response rules with various actions.
• Excellent coordination & communication skills working with other team members like DEV, QA, Operations, Networking, DBA groups.
• Involved in weekly meetings with operations team to improve the handover of tasks to perform and support in production environment.
• Developed several documents and uploaded them to team wiki and created various documents for operations team to support the application.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Upgrading WebSphere application server from version 6.0 to 6.1 along with custom configurations and IBM Http Server upgrade.
• Installing, Configuration & administration of IBM Http Server, WebSphere Message Broker.
• Involved in monitoring solution setup with Tivoli for the middle ware tools like WAS, MQ, WMB.
• Involved in capacity planning including horizontal and vertical cluster configuration using WAS ND for high availability and scalability
• New environment setups for creating DMGR, Cell, Profiles, custom nodes (federating to DMGR), resource configurations including JDBC and data source.
• Package, build, Integrate and deploy enterprise J2EE applications to involves EAR and WAR.
• Configuring MQ objects like Queue managers, Queues, Channels and receivers.
• Configure WebSphere message broker including Queue manager cluster for high availability.
• Enabling the required trace using Tivoli performance viewer while performing the load test.

Confidential

Java Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed Business layer using Message Driven Beans, Hibernate 3.0, Websphere 6.1, XML, on both Unix and windows environment
• Developed business layer using EJB's and Java Design patterns
• Created mapping and configuration files for hibernate
• Configured the Web sphere application server for deployment
• Developed Web services for clients
• Involved in changing the XML schema with ongoing modification in DB side
• Developed ant build scripts to automate the build and deployment process
• Worked on a continuous integration environment.
• Involved in System and Integration testing. Implemented extensive logging and error handling

Confidential

Java Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating a set of JSP’s (Java server Pages) and Servlets
• Developed Bean components for connecting to the AppServer and retrieving data from it.
• Developed Validations rules for the User Interface forms using JavaScript
• Developed Components for Data Manipulation and Database Connections
• Configuration and Administration of Web Logic server.
• Design and Development using EJB components like Session Bean tracking the session and Entity Bean for Database Operation.
• Involved with Design of test plan for Unit Testing and System Testing.