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Gopi Krishna Koduri

Aurora

Summary

Accomplished Digital Transformation Engineering Manager with a proven track record at Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., specializing in Azure cloud and DevOps. Expert in leading agile teams to deliver projects within scope and budget, enhancing digital commerce applications. Skilled in infrastructure architecture and offshore management, demonstrating exceptional leadership and project management capabilities.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

Digital Transformation Engineering Manager

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.
03.2017 - Current

· Managed multiple agile project teams ranging from small to large scale.

· Facilitate transparent continuous communication with all stake holders and deliver projects with agreed scope, budget and timelines.

· Managed and supported Digital commerce applications with onsite / offshore resources.

· Implemented new technologies, Infrastructure building and sizing, Cloud support.

· Designed and solutioned the infrastructure needs.

· Build SRE team to proactively support multiple applications and enforced documentation.

· Troubleshoot and conducted RCA calls for short term and long-term solutions.

· Redesigned and implemented ADF and Cosmos DB for one of the legacy applications.

· Implemented CI / CD for Android native applications and microservices for Store Digitalization.

· Initiated and driven efforts to build automation suites to reduce project timelines.

· Migrated GIT repositories from Stash to ADO.

· Build and deploy microservices into AKS cluster using ADO pipelines.

Environment: Azure, AKS, Android, AirWatch, Chef, Jenkins, GitLab, Subversion, Jira, Sonar, Mongo, MySQL, Cassandra, Dynatrace, ELK

Senior Manager -DevOps

SEARS HOLDINGS CORPORATION
03.2015 - 01.2017

· Managed and supported multiple e-commerce applications and services with onsite / offshore resources, implemented and standardized processes, and planned budgets for projects, resources, software, and training. Distributed work to team, based on priorities and skillsets.

· Designed and delivered proof of concept for AWS cloud IaaS setup. Completed build of DEV and QA environments along with some Production applications with a plan to migrate 1 datacenter by end of 2017.

· Architected and Implemented CI / CD in AWS cloud, automating the entire process of provisioning infrastructure to delivering the code.

· Automated and Implemented CI / CD process in Agile / Scrum environment, drastically reducing code-delivery time. Collaborated and mentored team on tools and techniques.

· Owned and delivered open-source migration, saving licensing costs with IBM.

· Enforced change management process across organization, achieving highly efficient code delivery and audit trail.

· Facilitated migration from Jira to ServiceNow, providing single tool at enterprise level for Changes & Problems.

· Implemented DEVOPS culture, standardizing new application setup process for development and operational teams.

· Streamlined implementation of software migration and certificate repository / maintenance, enhancing tracking and renewals.

· Managed operations, productions issues, conducted RCA analysis and provided 24x7 support.

Environment: AWS, Docker, Chef, Jenkins, GitLab, Subversion, Jira, ServiceNow, Sonar, Puppet, Jboss, Tomcat, Infinispan, Apache, WAS, WCS, WXS, IBM Http, WMQ, AIX, Linux, DB2, Mongo, MySQL, Cassandra, Dynatrace, Dash

Manager - Middleware

SEARS HOLDINGS CORPORATION
02.2012 - 02.2015

· Facilitated data center migration. Owned and delivered environments to benefit Quality Assurance (QA) life cycle.

· Planned and executed high-availability and load-balancing processes.

· Implemented redundancy, backup, failover, and disaster-recovery strategies, achieving zero downtime and blue / green deployments, built fault-tolerant systems.

  • · Drove process to build new environments, improving delivery time for Devops, systems, and networking teams.
  • · Coordinated with application teams on infrastructure, networking, and SSL certificate needs, minimizing communication and acting as bridge for all teams to accomplish required results.
  • · Authored proactive counter measures for monitoring and supporting high-trafficperiods.

Environment: Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab Subversion, Jira, ServiceNow, Sonar, Puppet Jboss, Tomcat, Infinispan, Apache, WAS, WCS, WXS, IBM Http, WMQ, AIX, Linux, DB2, Mongo, MySQL, Cassandra, Dynatrace, Dash

Lead Engineer - Middleware

SEARS HOLDINGS CORPORATION
01.2007 - 01.2012
  • · Installed and configured extended cache monitor for WXS, increasing distributed capabilities of dynamic cache function and data-replication service.
  • · Configured global security of WAS admin Consoles with LDAP and custom registry authentications mechanism.
  • · Requested SSL certificates from Certificate Authorities (CA); applied CAs to secure e-commerce sites.
  • · Configured clusters for high availability and efficiency of web applications, realizing zero downtime during deployments.
  • · Automated repetitive tasks (backups, Java cores, rotate logs, alerting), reducing manual work and easing troubleshooting.
  • · Architected and led complex e-commerce projects, using WAS, WCS and WXS as caching solutions.

Environment: Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab Subversion, Jira, ServiceNow, WAS, WCS, WXS, IBM Http, WMQ, AIX, Linux, DB2, MySQL, Wily Introscope, Dash

WebSphere Administrator

IBM
02.2004 - 01.2007
  • · Managed and supported IBM partner commerce and Lenovo applications for high availability with automation and proactive monitoring
  • · Verified reports and worked with appropriate teams on resolving issues.
  • · Followed change management process and scheduled changes, enhancing process auditing and accountability.

Environment: WAS, WCS, WMQ, AIX, DB2

WMQ AND WAS Administrator

WESTFIELD GROUP
01.2004 - 12.2004
  • · Designed and administered WMQ and WAS for insurance application during migration from legacy systems to Java and AIX.
  • · Analyzed, planned, designed, and architected MQ series environment.
  • · Set up different environments for applications, as per business requirements, supporting process transactions in CICS.
  • · Configured queue managers on mainframes.
  • · Installed and configured EVMON; monitored message transactions, reviewed log, troubleshooting and resolving issues.

Environment: WMQ, WBI, WAS, AIX, OS/390, Z/OS, DB2

WMQ Administrator

AMERICAN EXPRESS
02.2002 - 02.2004
  • · Configured WMQI set-up and usage; configured importing and exporting of message sets and neon formats / rules.
  • · Utilized PathWai Editor Tool (Candle product) for browsing messages, taking dumps, and resending messages.
  • · Provided 24x7 supports for all the distributed banking environment applications.

Environment: WAS, WCS, WMQ, WMQI, AIX, DB2, OS/390

Senior Programmer

IRMAC SERVICES
01.2000 - 01.2002
  • Develop billing and personnel information system for hospital employees.
  • · Analyzed, designed, and developed module for managing personnel information, maintaining detailed employee data.
  • · Developed interface to 100+ query reports for management, enhancing analysis and decision making.
  • Develop HR registration system for corporate policies providing interface to access to client-side information.
  • · Built registration module, deploying EJB beans through deployment descriptor in WebLogic application server.

Environment: Java, JDBC, Servlets, WAS, SQL Server

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Osmania University
Hyderabad, India
03.1999

Bachelor of Science - Electronics

Osmania University
Hyderabad, India
03.1997

Skills

Core strengths:

Azure cloud Devops Infrastructure Operations Architecture Agile & Scrum Methodology Project Management Leadership Team building Budgeting Mentoring Technology Strategy, Evaluation, & Analysis Offshore Management

Technical Skills

Cloud:

Microsoft Azure, AKS (Kubernetes)

CI / CD:

Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins, Jira, Checkmarx, Veracode, SonarQube, Chef, Docker, ServiceNow and Subversion

Open Source:

Jboss, Tomcat, Kafka, Storm, Zookeeper, Infinispan, Apache and Hazelcast

Middleware:

WAS, WCS, WXS and WMQ

Operating Systems:

Linux, Solaris, AIX and Windows

Database:

DB2, MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra and Cosmos

Monitoring:

Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk, Wily Introscope and Graphite Dash

Scripting:

wsadmin, jacl, python and shell

Methodology:

Waterfall and Agile

Languages:

Timeline

Digital Transformation Engineering Manager

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.
03.2017 - Current

Senior Manager -DevOps

SEARS HOLDINGS CORPORATION
03.2015 - 01.2017

Manager - Middleware

SEARS HOLDINGS CORPORATION
02.2012 - 02.2015

Lead Engineer - Middleware

SEARS HOLDINGS CORPORATION
01.2007 - 01.2012

WebSphere Administrator

IBM
02.2004 - 01.2007

WMQ AND WAS Administrator

WESTFIELD GROUP
01.2004 - 12.2004

WMQ Administrator

AMERICAN EXPRESS
02.2002 - 02.2004

Senior Programmer

IRMAC SERVICES
01.2000 - 01.2002

Master of Science - Computer Science

Osmania University

Bachelor of Science - Electronics

Osmania University
Gopi Krishna Koduri