Nithyanantham Palanisamy

Middleware IBM MQ & IIB

Contact: 248-919-8460
Mail id: anand26.sp@gmail.com

Professional Summary
· Over all 9+ years of IT Experience in the analysis, design, implementation, and administration, setup,
installation and administration of IBM WebSphere MQ 6.0/7.0/7.5/8.0/9.0 versions on various platforms.
· Operation Systems like IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, Red Hat Linux, & RHEL.
· Expertise in Installing, Configuring and administering Oracle Service Bus/WebLogic 11g, on, Solaris and Linux.
· Experience in maintaining application highly available and fail over redundancy by creating Clusters, multiple
instances/domains, load balancing methodologies, work load management on MQ / WMB and Data Power.
· In-depth understanding of the internals of IBM MQ, WMQ 8.0, DataPower, OSB 11g / JBOSS FUSE.
· Experienced in System integration testing and validation and application documentation.
· Highly experienced in the upgrading of MQ Series, Message Broker, Oracle Service Bus 11g ,
· Applying fix packs for WebLogic and IBM MQ series.
· Define MQ objects (queues, channels, processes, services) and Setting up WebSphere MQ clusters, multi-
instance setup for load balancing and high availability.
· Implementing channel triggering for auto process of the messages.
· Extensive experience in migration of products from older versions to newer versions whenever suggested by
vendors.
· Implemented MQ Active-Passive setup with multi instance queue managers and worked on Replication.
· Implemented the clustering of queue managers to achieve work load balancing and to reduce system
administration.
· Good at Problem Determination and Troubleshooting through the Log files, Traces, Log Analyzer and
rectified the problems or interacting with IBM support to solve problems.
· Analyzing the memory, CPU usage and overall server status with commands and GUI tools.
· An enthusiastic, project-oriented team player with leadership skills and with an ability to interact with end-
users and managers.
· Experience on Start / stop application/web services, thread dump, heap dump and log analysis, apply
upgrades & patches.
· Experience in moving data into and out of the HDFS and Relational Database Systems (RDBMS) using Apache
Sqoop.
· Experience in importing and exporting data using Sqoop from HDFS/Hive/HBase to Relational Database
Systems and vice - versa. Skilled in Data migration and data generation in Big Data ecosystem.
· Experienced in building highly scalable Big-data solutions using Hadoop and multiple distributions i.e., ,
Hortonworks and NoSQL platforms (Hbase).
· Experience in requirement gathering and to develop creative solutions for challenging client needs.
· Helping application teams in on-boarding Splunk and creating dashboards, alerts, reports etc.  
· Develop custom app configurations (deployment-apps) within SPLUNK in order to parse, index multiple
types of log format across all application environments.  
· Experience in using automated monitoring tools like Nagios.
· Experience in Shell scripting and extensively used Regular expressions in search string and data
anonymization.  
· Good knowledge on network infrastructure for e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, Firewall, router, load balancer 
· Experience in Optimized search queries using summary indexing.

Technical Skills
· WebSphere Family: MQ Series 6/7/8/9, Message Broker 6.x, IIB 9.0/10, DataPower XI52 XG-45/XS 40 ,
WebSphere Commerce server, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere MQ,
Tomcat, IBM HTTP Server, IIS server, WebLogic, Oracle Endeca Work Bench, Apache Tomcat, WebLogic,
JBoss, IBM Sterling.
· Oracle Family: OSB 11g / WebLogic 11g / EAP 7.0 / FUSE
· Splunk: 7.x/6.x
· Operating Systems: Solaris 10 AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3/6.0, Linux (SUSE) 8/7.2/7.1/6.2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
· Databases: Oracle 9.0/8.1/8.0/7.x,
· Monitoring Tools: AppDynamics, Science Logic, Splunk, Tivoli, Heap and Thread Dump Analyzer, Tivoli
Performance viewer, CA Wily Introscope, Kibana, Splunk, Nastel, Grafana
· Scripting Language: Shell Script / YAML
· Big Data Technologies : Hadoop, Map Reduce, HDFS, Zookeeper, Kafka, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Oozie, Flume, Yarn,
HBase, Spark
· CICD Tools: Jenkins / Bitbucket /SonarQube / Ansible/Chef/SVN

Experience
IBM MQ, OSB 11G & SPLUNK ENGINEER | ALLY FINANCIAL – DETROIT, MI
| 12/2014 TO CURRENT

· Installation, Configuration, testing, implementation, maintenance and documentation of Websphere MQ

7.1/7.5/8.0/9.0, IIB and Cloudera with Apache Kafka on various platforms such as Linux, Solaris and
Windows.
· Implemented MQ Active-Passive setup with multi instance queue managers and worked on Replication
across data center.
· Defining and maintaining Queue Managers and MQ Objects on Solaris and Linux.
· Implemented the clustering of queue managers to achieve work load balancing and to reduce system
administration.
· Worked with the application teams to gather the requirements to build the interfaces.
· Build the security infrastructure for MQ using security exits, SSL.
· Designed and implemented by configuring OSB instance in new clustered in all environment.
· Implemented 2-way SSL between OSB and third-party services.

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· Integrated LDAP Configuration this includes integrating LDAP for securing WebLogic servers and manage
authorization and securing with permissions against AD groups
· Worked on manually migrate instances from the old model version to the new model version.
· Created MQ Queues and Channels required for the Application and resolved Channel issues, Cluster issues
by diagnosing the problem from various logs i.e. MQ error logs, JMS logs and trace files.
· Created HBase tables to store various data formats of incoming data from different portfolios.
· Created queue clusters and stopping and starting the queue managers and QMGR Services.
· Hands on development experience in customizing, visualizations, configurations, reports and search
capabilities using customized Splunk queries.
· Enabled speedy reviews and first mover advantages by using Oozie to automate data loading into the
Hadoop Distributed File System and PIG to pre-process the data.
· Used AppDynamics to monitor WebLogic and tuned the environment accordingly like changing the JVM
Heap, & Connection Pool sizes.
· Created Splunk apps for consuming data for applications and implement apps.
· Create Splunk Dashboard Views, Reports. lookups and Alerts for events and configure alerts.
· Work closely with Application Teams to create new Splunk dashboards for Operation teams.
· Create/Configure Workload management policies for tuning IIB flows performance.
· Proactively monitor and setup alerting mechanism for OSB environment by SPLUNK and AppDynamics
· Provided Platform support for various applications and applications running on IBM Websphere MQ series
8.x/9.x, IIB 9.0/10.
· Built Shell Scripts and utilized the Splunk tool for monitoring the MQ and OSB.
· Administered the WMQ Queue manager, Queues and Channels, debugging the day to day problems.
· Worked on MQ disaster recover situations.
· Troubleshooting various issues which arise in the WebSphere MQ environment and WMB .
· Circumvented and resolved many complex and critical WMQ /WMB and OSB issues in production support in
environment.
· Provide support for the entire cycle of application testing including building applications, deploying, and
troubleshooting.

Environment: IBM MQ v7.x/8.x/9.x, IIB 9.0/10, OSB 11g, Splunk 6.x/7.x

SENIOR OPERATION PROFESSIONAL | IBM INDIA PVT LTD, INDIA | 04/2010

TO 12/2014

· Installation, Configuration, testing, implementation, maintenance and documentation of Websphere MQ

6.0/6.1/7.1, WMB/IIB 9.0 on various platforms such as AIX, Mainframe, Linux.
· Responsible for deployment and moving of applications from development (DEV), systems integration, UAT,
production (PROD) and DR Servers.
· Applied fix packs, refresh packs and patches for different versions of WAS and Web servers in all the
environments.
· Installed and configured Apache Server for hosting web pages.
· Installed EARs, WARs and configured application specific JVM settings, Web container parameters using the
Admin Console and WSADMIN.

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· Upgrading the Firmware for the DataPower appliance for various environment
· Configured the ODBC connections and Syslogs for the Message Broker.
· Responsible for installing XML flows, SSL certificates, config backup, domain backups on DataPower XI52.
· Configured MQ (front/back side handlers) with DataPower XI52.
· Configured the Configuration Manager, Message Repository Database, broker database for IIB 9.0.
· Setup naming standards for the Queue managers, Queues and Channels.
· Implemented the clustering of queue managers to achieve work load balancing and to reduce system
administration.
· Experience on Groovy scripts, Chef and AWS.
· Launched AWS EC2 instances using Amazon Web Services (RHEL) for test and development environments.
Responsible for the development and maintenance of Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancers.
· Build the security infrastructure for MQ using OAM, security exits, SSL.
· Created the Queue managers, queues, channels, process definitions and triggering in MQ.
· Backing up the Queue manager objects periodically.
· Used Tivoli Performance viewer to monitor WebSphere WMQ /WMB/ DataPower appliance.
· Troubleshoot problems and errors related to, MQ /WMB and DataPower
· Provide support for the entire cycle of application testing including building applications, deploying, and
troubleshooting.

Education
MASTERS IN APPLIED ELECTRONICS | MAY, 2018 | BHARATHIAR
UNIVERSITY
· Major: Electronics
· Minor: Computing
· Related coursework: Programming with C, Project Management.

BACHELORS IN ELECTRONICS | MAY, 2006 | BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY

· Major: Electronics
Related coursework: Programming in C, Programming with Micro Chips

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