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Karthikeyan Gandhi 

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Rocklin, CA  95765
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gandhikarthi@gmail.com
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Resume Headline: Karthikeyan Gandhi - Cloud engineer/Architect

Resume Value: niscdw5der6hkkci   

  

 

Karthikeyan Gandhi                                 E-Mail: gandhikarthi@gmail.com

6108 Canyon Rim Dr,      

Rocklin, CA  Mobile: 916-316-3688

       

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SUMMARY

 

·               Highly Skilled Systems and Storage Professional with 14+ Years of extensive experience in the IT Industry (Architecture, System Administration, Development, Testing, Integration and Support) on Solaris / HPUX / IBM AIX / Linux/VMware and Storage Administration, the expertise being greatly streamlined to Cloud architecture

·               Experience in C++/Java Programming, Shell/bash scripting and Perl Scripting.

·               Experience in Open Stack API / Cloud Stack/ VMware vSphere API

·               Experience in developing Restful API using Rest easy framework.

·               Extensive experience in Virtualization (VMware products, HP-UX vpar6.2 – HPVM)

·               Extensive experience in vCloud Suite – vSphere based private cloud infrastructure and configurations.

·               Conversant in VMware Product lines vSphere ESXi, DRS and vMotion.

·               Vast experience in different product hierarchies of Servers (SUN FIRE/ULTRA Series and HP rp and rx Series, IBM P-series) and Storage (EMC2 Symmetrix & DMX, and HP EVA/XP/3PAR Arrays).

·               Expert in Installing, configuring and administering Storage Area Network

·               Highly proficient in configuring SAN Fabrics with switches like Brocade Fiber Channel Directors and Cisco MDS switches.

·               Conversant in configuring Network Attached Storage(NETAPP FAS series filer) and Data ONTAP

·               Extensive experience in implementing high availability / data redundant configurations using SUN Cluster, Veritas Cluster Server, VMware Vcenter Cluster

·               Extensive experience in setting up Volumes using Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) on servers in data center and Veritas file system (VxFS) and Logical Volume Manager (LVM) for Linux, HPUX & AIX systems

·               Conversant with installation and administration of HP Omni back II and Veritas NetBackup

·               Highly proficient in performance monitoring and tuning.

·               Automating Multiple Operating system provisioning using JumpStart, KickStart and AutoYast. Also integrating with Puppet and cobbler.

·               Extensive experience in configuring NIS and NFS. Conversant in DNS and BIND concepts.

·               Extensive experience in setting up of large heterogeneous networks comprising of LANs, WAN Links with CISCO Products

 

Educational Qualification:

 

q       Four Years Bachelor's Degree in Engineering - Electronics & Communications Engineering (First class with Distinction) from Manonmaniam sundaranar University, TN, India

 

Certifications:

·               Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 8 OE

·               Sun Certified Network Administrator (SCNA) for Solaris 8 OE

·               Sun Certified Field Engineer (L100)

·               Sun Certified STARCAT Administrator

 

Training Details:

 

·               Trained on implementing Open Stack, HP Roseville by Mirantis.

·               Trained on HP StorgeWorks XP Array, HP Cupertino

·               Trained on HP Radia OS Manger and Radia Configuration server

·               Trained on IBM Aix Problem determination at IBM, Sanfrancisco

·               Trained on System administration of AS/400 at IBM, Sanfrancisco

·               Trained on Sun Fire 15K (STARCAT) Server Administration by Sun Educational Services

·               Sun Cluster 3.0 Update I Installation and Administration at Sun Microsystems, India.

·               CISCO Router & Switch Configuration at Wipro Infotech, India

·              NETAPP Filer Installation and Administration at Wipro Infotech, India

 

Experience

 

Company: Hewlett Packard Co

Title: Solution Architect.

Dec2006 – till date

 

Company: Cognizant Technology solution,

Title: Sr. Associate Engineer.

Aug2006 – Dec 2006

 

Company: I & I software

Title: SAN Administrator

June2005- Aug 2006

 

Company: Hewlett Packard Global soft.

Title: System and Software engineer.

March 2003 – June 2005

 

Company: Wipro Info Tech,

Title: Customer support engineer.

Feb2001 – Feb 2003

 

Project Details:

 

Company: Hewlett Packard

Location: Roseville, CA

Role: Architect/Technology lead.

 

Enterprise Cloud computing ECS-VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)

·  Research, Design and Develop the various offering requirements for ECS-VPC which includes Compute, Storage and Network

·  Automation of Server, Storage and Network provisioning which includes both Physical and virtual server.

·  Provide the Restful API/interface

·  Provide the Open stack API for the ECS-VPC functionality and also integrate various open stack components such as cinder.

·  Provide automation of server provisioning which involves multiple operating systems such as Redhat, Suse Linux, Windows and HP-UX. And also use various Hypervisor such as Vmware Vcenter cluster (vSphere ESXi, DRS, vMotion) and Windows Hyper-V

·  Automation of storage involves different hardware such as EVA and 3PAR arrays for SAN and Netapp for NAS.

·  Automation of Network involves configuring procurve rack switches and also the enclosure blade switches. Also automate load balancer (F5) and firewall connected in the infrastructure.

·  Provide disaster recovery resources by configuring the clusters in dual data center.

 

Utility Metering (Utility pricing solution):

·  Design and develop the solution to Meter the usage of Superdome (SD1) and Buccaneer (SD2) servers

·  Meter the usage of Storage devices such as EVA, XP,3PAR VLS and SAN switches ( Brocade and cisco)

·  Design and develop the embedded meter (using Linux)

·  Design and develop the usage collection using WBEM Protocols

 

Company: Cognizant Technology Solutions

Client: Network Appliance

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Role: SAN Implementation engineer

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

·   Design and implement SAN Fabric using Cisco MDS switches.

·   Design and implement NAS using Netapp FAS Filer.

·   Design and implement iscsi solution in FAS cluster.

·   Install and setup ONTap OS 7G on FAS series filer.

·   Implement the replication solution using SnapMirror

·   Implement the backup & recovery solution using Snapshot, snapvault and snap restore products.

·   Provision and Volume managed using Flex vol and flex clone

·   Design and create traditional volume and flexible volume.

 

CompanyI & I software

Client: J P Morgan Chase

Location: Columbus, Ohio

Role: SAN Implementation engineer

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

·   Design and architecture of New Fabric for the customer

·   Work with Vendor to setup new Hardware such as DMX, clariion, lightening & thunder arrays, XP arrays, brocade switches and Netapp Filers

·   Setup core/edge switches. Installation and upgrade of HBA drivers and firmware

·   Installation and Management of ECC infrastructure, Hi command and Navisphere management server And also Install EMC Power Path, Solution Enabler and other storage related software

·   Setup new SAN and NAS attached Solaris, AIX and Windows servers

·   Allocate Symmetrix, Clariion and NAS storage to host

·   Perform Zoning, LUN mapping, masking and attaching UNIX servers in SAN

·   Create SRDF relationship between Symmetrix in different datacenters

·   Create BCVs, establish, query and split

·   Performance monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting of EMC SAN

·   Prepare plan and layout for server and Statistical data center migration

·  Migrating the data using SRDF

 

 

Company              : Hewlett Packard Global Soft

Location: Roseville, CA

Role:  System and Software engineer

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

 

·   Design and architect the proactive monitoring & event triggering software C-Track (Continuous track) that is installed in the service processor of Xp array.

·   Simulate hardware and software events and test  the storage array

·   Install multipathing software, HP secure path on various Operating systems AIX, Solaris and Hp-UX

·   Test HP Secure path in various fabric environment contain brocade/mcdata/cisco switches and with various HBA such as JNI, Qlogic and Emulex in different version of Solaris 2.8/2.9 & AIX 5.1/5.2

·   Work with development team to fix the bug in SecureParth for the new release.

·   Install, setup and Manage multiple OS such as Solaris 2.8/2.9/2.10, AIX 4.3.3/5.1/5.2, HP-UX 11i

·   Install Veritas Volume manager in Solaris and Logical volume manager in AIX & HP-UX

·   Setup HP OVO for monitoring various operating systems

·   Design and architect the modules which will integrate with HP open view for monitoring Sun Solaris and IBM AIX

·   Design and architect the SMSPI (server management smart plug-in), an event generator / proactive monitor for Sun Solaris and IBM AIX

·   Install IBM i-series and OS/400

·   Design and architect SMSPI for OS/400

 

Client                             : Citibank N A

Company              : Wipro InfoTech, Chennai India

Role: Systems Engineer

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

Citibank NA has its main Data center at Chennai housing over 50 SUN servers that cater to its production banking operations across the globe. It is one of the major customers for SUN Microsystems in India.

 

·   Participate in a team of engineers in maintaining 70 SUN servers & ensuring an average uptime of 99%.

·   Directly involve in installing, configuring, troubleshooting, performance monitoring & performance tuning of all mission critical SUN servers.

·   Resource planning & allocation, contingency planning & Disaster recovery management with other engineers.

·   Installation and Configuration of RAID File systems with Veritas Volume Manager and Solstice Disk Suite

·   Configuring DNS servers with DNS client, NIS

·   Installation and configuration of Sun Cluster 2.2 / 3.0

·   Round the clock (24/7), round the year support to the customer who is the leader in banking business.

·   Installation and maintenance of Oracle database server /oracle parallel server and Oracle 9iRAC

·   Installation of Sun Fire 15k with the appropriate requirements. Configuration of system controllers (SC0 / SC1) and domains. Migration the critical servers from Sun Enterprise server ranges to Sun Fire 15K with Sun cluster 3.0

·   Creation of the domains as per the requirement. Updated the flash PROMS located on CPU boards, Max CPU boards and System controllers. 'hpost' was run as per the recommendations

·   Configure the LUN's of EMC2 Symmetrix using ESN Manager. The LUN's are assigned to the system. Performed zoning and Masking.



Experience

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Job Title

Company

Experience

Solution Architect

Hewlett Packard

- Present

 

Additional Info

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Current Career Level:

Experienced (Non-Manager)

Work Status:

US - I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

Active Security Clearance:

None

US Military Service:

Citizenship:

None

 

 

Target Job:

Target Job Title:

Cloud engineer/Architect

Desired Job Type:

Employee

Desired Status:

Full-Time

 

Target Company:

Company Size:

Occupation:

IT/Software Development

·         Software/System Architecture

 

Target Locations:

Selected Locations:

US-CA-Sacramento

Relocate:

No