Chandan Patra

9900883916
Project Lead, IGATE

Mob:

Summary:

Working as Project Lead in IGATE Cloud Practice and having 9 years of

experience in Information Technology and has worked in different phases of
SDLC - mainly analysis, design, development, testing, integration, support and
maintenance for Cloud Solutions and Java/J2EE based applications.
Currently working as SME in AWS public Cloud and other Cloud technologies.
Responsible for deployment, administration and management on various
Cloud projects on AWS platform for various customers.
5+ years of experience on AWS EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, EMR, IAM, SES, OpsWorks,
and Beanstalk. He also has worked on various OS platforms like Red Hat Linux,
Ubuntu, and MS Windows.
9+ years of experience in Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, JBoss
application server clustering, Apache Tomcat, Resin and Apache Httpd web
servers.
Good experience on Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Storm,
Kafka, Lucene, Solr and NOSQL Databases such as Redis, HBase, MongoDB.
1.5 years of experience in DevOps technologies : Chef, OpsWorks and other
Automation tools.
Good exposure to system and application management and monitoring tools
like Ganglia, New Relic, kSar, Oracle VisualVM, Wireshark, TDA, SPA, FireBug.
Good exposure on application monitoring and troubleshooting with the use of
software and analyzers in different cloud and OS platforms.
Experience in support and maintenance of large scale projects during his
previous engagement.

Educational Qualification:
Master of Computer Application IN 2004 from Utkal University with 75%
Certifications and Courses:

AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate level

CLOUDU CERTIFICATION, Rackspace Hosting
BigData University, IBM

Technical Experience:
Cloud Technologies
Operating Systems
Technologies &
Frameworks

Tools

AWS EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, EMR, IAM, SES,OpsWorks,

ElasticCache, Beanstalk
RHEL, Ubuntu, Fedora, Windows
Java, J2EE, Spring, J2EE, Struts, Torque , JPA, Hibernate,
Axis 1.4, Web Service, JAXB, SAAJ, AWS, Logica SMPP,
Freemarker, Groovy,Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Storm, Kafka,
Lucene, Solr, Redis, HBase, MongoDB, httpclient, awsjava-sdk,JBoss6, Weblogic 8.1, Resin 3.x, Tomcat 7.0,
nginx and Apache 2.x
Ganglia, NMS, Big Brother, SQL Developer, visualvm, kSar,
Findbugs, Wireshark, Maven, Perforce, SPA, TDA, Samurai,
Firebug, OpenLDAP

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Automation Tools

Chef, Various Shell scripts

Professional Experience:
Organization
IGATE
July Systems Pvt
Ltd
VeriSign India
Wipro
Technologies

Designation
Project Lead
Sr. Software
Engineer
Sr. Software
Engineer
Software Engineer

Experienc
e in
Months
49
11
31
17

Major Assignments:
10 2014 To 11
Project:
Client
Environment:
Role:

2014
Corporate Website
Large Company Operating in Asia
AWS
Project Lead

This project was to host a corporate website in AWS. Project included coordination
with Client and hosting and configuring the website. Managing and maintaining
project in AWS public cloud.
Job Responsibilities: Role and Activities as Project Lead were:

Cloud deployment architecture and set up

Installing required software
Support for client and app team requests
Preparation of technical document and attending calls to discuss project
related issues

03 2014 To 05
Project:
Client
Environment:
Role:

2014
PMT
Large Insurance Company in Europe
Windows OS,.NET, AWS
Project Lead

This project was catering to the customer requirements of market analysis reports.
Project work included coordination with Client and application development team
requirements. Managing and maintaining project in AWS public cloud.
Job Responsibilities: Role and Activities as Project Lead were:

Cloud deployment architecture and set up

Installing required software
Support for client and app team requests

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Preparation of weekly reports and attending weekly call to discuss project

related issues
Providing training/ support to team members on applications, process etc.

05 2013 To 01
Project:
Client
Environment:
Role:

2014
Automation Project for IGATE
Internal Project for IGATE
AWS, Ganglia, Delta Cloud, Chef, Java, Spring, Hibernate
Technical Lead

This project was aimed at automation of configuration and scaling of application.

Job Responsibilities:

Architecture, design and development

Adding APIs to Deltacloud for project requirement
Operationalize the application deployment through Chef
System data gathering using ganglia for monitoring
Implementing Java concurrency for scheduling

11 2012 To 06
Project:
Client
Environment:
Role:

2012
e-Marketplace, USA
A transport company
AWS EC2, RDS, S3, SES, IAM, RHEL, Java, Spring, Hibernate
Technical Lead

This project was aimed to help major airlines for procurement of parts from a single
window.
Job Responsibilities:

AWS Cloud based deployment architecture, hardware sizing, software listing

Providing HA, DR support to application with Auto scaling, clustering, DB
master-slave architecture
Automating deployment and other routine activities
Support for various technical and deployment issues
Involved in troubleshooting AWS Cloud setup related issues
Documentation of architecture, deployment
Mentoring new team members on Cloud technologies and training
Worked as a team lead, and was involved in customer communication,
sending daily status report and discussions for issues faced during day to
day operation.

10 2011 To 03
Project:
Client
Environment:
Role:

2012
CPS, Europe
A large automobile company in Europe
Java, Spring, Hibernate, Apache Wicket
Technical Lead

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CPS project was supporting the manufacturers European supply chain management.
Job Responsibilities:

Leading the team of 15+ members for development and support

Support for various technical and deployment issues
Documentation of architecture, deployment
Mentoring new team members on cloud technologies and training
Worked as a team lead, and was involved in customer communication,
sending daily status report and discussion for issues faced during day to day
operation

01 2010 To 12
Project:
Client
Environment:

2011
AWS Data Management, IPL Messaging Gateway, BBonSA
July Systems
AWS, Solr, Spring, Java, JBoss, MySQL,MongoDB, GAE,RHEL, Shell
Scripting
Role:
Senior Software Engineer
Above mentioned projects are products of July Systems. The infrastructures were
completely on AWS.
Job Responsibilities:

Design and development of application

Hosting in AWS Cloud
Automation of applications with shell scripts
Involved in task allocation and other activities
Handling the maintenance and operation with NetOps team;wrote scripts to
manage and automate the support process

06 2007 To 01
Project:
Client
Environment:
Role:

2010
PictureMail
VeriSign
Fedora, RHEL, Linux, Java, Spring, Web Services
Senior Software Engineer

PictureMail is the product that handles all the messaging services of VeriSign along with
VeriSign MMSC and the service includes PictureMail, MMS, E-Mails and transcoding of the
messages across handsets, web etc.
Job Responsibilities:

CoE Member, coding anddeployment for VeriSign MMSC, Billing andWeb

Applications
Handling production issues with system data analysis
Complete automation of Sprint USA, Verizon, TNZ, Rogers deployment through
scripts
System data analysis using SAR, Big Brother, NMS
Upgrading the system and services as per the technological changes
Providing support for maintenance of UNIX based Applications
Coordinating with On-Call for problem resolution

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Providing systems data as per client requirement

Attending daily team meetings with Client
Proactive handling to minimize the escalations
Preparing daily, weekly reports, system check reports

01 2006 To 05
Project:
Client
Environment:
Role:

2007
FlowBrix
Wipro Technoogies
Java, J2EE, Spring, Web Services
Network Analyst

Flow-briX, a BPM tool and a product of Wipro which provides process modeling,
process simulation, process deployment, process monitoring and reporting.
Job Responsibilities:
Development (FlowbriX 3.7, FlowbriX4.0), Enhancement, Bug fixing &
Testing (Flow-briX3.6)
Providing Technical support
Awards and Achievements:
Month - Year
2014
2012
2009

Awards and Achievements

Pat on the Backs in IGATE
Pat on the Backs in IGATE
What Matters Award for 2009 in VeriSign

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