Yashvant Awasthi

About Yashvant Awasthi

Experienced Certified Cassandra Engineer (Dse & Apache)-Admin-Architect (7 + Years exp as Cassandra Admin-Architect & total 14 Years of IT Experience) with exposure to Practices and Procedures that includes installation, configuration, administration, migration, upgrade, remote administration and support on all major Operating Systems Experience on End to end Implementation of large scale Cassandra clusters on in-premise and cloud environment. Experience in migration of the Cassandra database from on-premise to cloud. Extensive experience on working in Banking domain. Extensively used Devops tools like Urban code deploy, GIT, Jenkins. Extensive working experience with broad range of AWS Cloud Services like EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, VPC, Route53,S3, IAM, and CloudWatch and Exposure to DynamoDB. Experienced in providing security to Cassandra cluster with Kerberos and integration with LDAP/AD at Enterprise level. Strong learning abilities with keen interest in learning new technologies and best practices with passion to take on challenges to deliver and add value to the clients, good communication and inter-personal skills, accustomed to work in a team environment with tight schedules, and capable of working efficiently under pressure and managing multiple project. Develop and manage build and release processes and configurations to support daily software development, testing, production builds and deployment operations. Expertise in performing system administration tasks and change management process for implementation and migration, coordinating with Vendors to resolve issues, and providing 24x7 application support. Providing support with a team of onsite and offshore Production Support model. Administering and maintaining Production, Stage, Development instances 24X7 Production Database Support and maintenance.

Experience

1. Infrastructure Architect

   IBM

   Dec 2016 — Present · Pune, IN

   Lead technical Cassandra & Nosql architecture analysis requirement gathering and due diligence activities. Lead the team in formulating, articulating and prioritizing key milestones for Cassandra project. Installation, Configuration, Administration, and monitoring of Cassandra clusters Participate in client engagements and own the Solution from a technical point of view. Identify and develop areas of automation in areas like deployment & upgradation using Devops tool. Successfully Implemented 100 Nodes Large scale Cassandra cluster for Lloyds Banking with all security features enabled includes Kerberos/Ldap/SSL and JMX. Cassandra Cluster planning which includes Data sizing estimation and identify hardware requirements based on the estimated data size and transaction volume. Cassandra deployments in Single, multi datacenter with spark and solr enabled. Installation, configuration, and administration of Dse & Apache Cassandra on in-premise and in AWS cloud. Good experience in using DataStax Enterprise (DSE) and OpsCenter for cluster administration and monitoring Managing Cassandra cluster through Devops tool (Git, Jenkins, UCD, Ansible) Setup Small and mid-size clusters in AWS Ec2. Grafana promitus setup for Apache Cassandra monitoring DSE & Apache Cassandra Upgrade SSL & Kerberos set up with Cassandra Ldap integration with Cassandra Stress test using ssl/Ldap and Kerberos Performance tuning Datastax Opscenter & agent upgrade Opscenter Agent configuration and administration. Cassandra database migration from in-prime data center to cloud Adding and removing node from Cassandra cluster Implemented Cassandra using multi data-center architecture Implementations CQL’s scripts on production and support System parameters change on Yaml and.conf files as per system requirements. Performance Monitor and Alerting through OpsCenter. SSL Configuration with Opscenter. Cassandra configuration with Docker.

Education

• Dr.C.V. Raman University

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Information Technology

  2003 — 2005

• Vinney memorial higher secondary school

  Higher Secondory

  1995 — 1998

Skills

• Oracle Discoverer 10g
• Oracle R12
• Shell Scripting
• Performance Tuning
• Data Guard
• Oracle
• Oracle Applications
• Oracle Database
• Hp-UX
• Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Oracle 9i
• Oid
• Database Design
• Oracle Discoverer
• Hpux 11i
• Sso
• Oracle Rac
• Sql
• Dmz
• Red Hat Linux
• Solaris