Manikandan Gopalakrishnan

About Manikandan Gopalakrishnan

Over 10 years of experience in Information Technology, which includes Middleware technologies, AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, Springboot. Strong understanding of common API technologies, such as OAUTH, SAML, Spring Boot and Micro services. Active participation in entire lifecycle of software development. Activities include study of conceptual design as well as detailed design, coding, unit testing, system integration testing and support, and also supported software configuration management. Highly experienced in installing, upgrading, configuring and Troubleshooting IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.x/7.0/8.x/9.x, IBM WebSphere MQ V7.0 on AIX, Linux, Sun and Windows Platforms. Migrated existing applications from WebSphere Application Servers V7.0 to 8.X on AIX, Linux, and Windows Platforms Strong experience in J2EE application administration like WebSphere Application Server, JBoss, Tomcat including Apache, IBM HTTP Server, LDAP and TAM Installation and Configuration of T24 core banking product. Experience with AWS services like EC2, ECS, EKS, ELB, IAM, VPC, Cloud Formation, CloudFront, Security Groups, Auto Scaling, and RDS. Focused on containerization and immutable infrastructure. Docker has been core to this experience, along with Kubernetes. Used Kubernetes to deploy scale, load balance, scale and manage Docker containers with multiple namespace versions. Automated daily task and using CI/CD tools like Jenkin. Expertise in implementing a production ready, highly available, fault tolerant Kubernetes infrastructure. Working on Scheduling, deploying and managing container replicas on a node cluster using Kubernetes. Worked on container-based deployments using Docker. Implemented Jenkins workflow and plug-ins for repeatable deployments of multi-tier applications, artifacts and services to Docker and AWS. Proficient in setting up and configuring Baselines, Branching, Merging, and Backup through GitHub Experience in working with automation tools like Chef, Puppet and Ansible. Automated daily tasks and using CI/CD tools like Jenkin. Worked with the Product development team to help resolve build related issues, was part of Scrum Meetings and Agile Environment. Fulfilling the role of a DevOps engineer in respect to our Puppet code. Responsible for QA code merges.

Experience

1. Senior Engineer

   Guardian Life

   Sep 2021 — Present · US

Education

• M.Kumarasamy College of Engineering

  B.E

  2002 — 2006

• P.S.G. College of Technology

  M.E

  2007 — 2009