Sunil Datta

email: flylearjet9@yahoo.com                Cell: 732.261.1253

                                                                                                                

Enterprise Big Data Architect – Cloud Solution Architect

Innovative, visionary and highly experienced Big Data Solutions Architect, Cloud Architect focused on Big Data technologies and Data Analytics to solve the business problems using Real-time Events processing analytics engineered for Hadoop technology platform also expertise in Cloud service models & stack deployment solutions using automation platform.

 

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Citi Group – Citi Technology and Operations               Nov 2012 - Present

Senior Solutions Architect

·               Architected and worked on building Big Data Hadoop platform using Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop (CDH5) on 5 master nodes on rack expandable cluster to achieve redundancy and configured Name Nodes, 45 Data Nodes, 1 Secondary NameNode, and 1 Job History Server, 1 Resource Mgr. YARN(MR2) , and configured hadoop security and monitoring on the virtualized cluster servers.

·               Hands on experience on data ingestion tools like flume, sqoop and worked on data transformation and analysis using Pig and Hive, configured Oozie workflow management and Cloudera Manager for high availability cluster configuration on production systems.

·               Implemented and worked on real-time streaming data processing using Apache Flume, the aggregating data from a few application server to HDFS using multiple Flume agents.

·               Worked on Cloudera Cluster Manager monitoring and trouble shooting configuring custom dashboards using ‘tsquery’ and SNMP traps alerts were configured to capture the hadoop cluster health.

·               Architected and delivered high level design document on Hadoop cluster build and configuration document on High Availability cluster planning, cluster backup/recovery, including cluster deployment process flow design and data security.

·               Architected and delivered configuration management tool using Chef for hadoop cluster build and automation task to deploy configuration on hadoop cluster, this automation had speed up the cluster deployment by 60 pct.

·               Architected, design and delivered Apache Hadoop cluster CDH5 (development) and wrote best practices for maintaining Apache Hadoop clusters in Production.

·               Architected and implemented Hadoop Cluster security using Kerberos(v5) client server architecture, defined Kerberos Key Distribution Center includes Kerberose database, authentication service and the ticket granting service.

·               Architectued and implemented Hortonworks HDP 2.4 Ambari twenty-node cluster using Amazon EC2 instances for development environment, worked on deployed Apache Storm topology to create Storm Spout to consume the Kafka events and Visualize the data using Apache Zeppelin.

·               Implemented Hadoop Security using Apache Sentry services plugins, the configuration was created for Hive and Impala using sentry bindings, configured and tested policy engine and policy providers for Hive and Impala components that was connecting to backend policy provider database.

·               Extracted the data from Oracle DW into HDFS using Sqoop.

·               Developed Oozie workflow for scheduling and orchestrating the ETL process.

·               Solved performance issues in Hive and Pig scripts with understanding of Joins, Group and aggregation and how does it translate to MapReduce jobs.

·               Architected and mentor application development team on various Citi projects promoting best practices and improving engineering processes on various application migration and hosting process.

·               Architected and developed process for application hosting and automated code deployment in the cloud platform for Citi applications in data center consolidation and Cloud integration projects.

·               Responsible to led efforts for Citi Loan application in performance architecture for Tibco Business Works and ESB solution and provided technical assistance to the most challenging performance issues that span multiple systems.

·               Architected and developed comprehensive high-level Cloud infrastructure integration solutions that incorporate strategic target state architecture and created standards in Cloud application migration process.

·               Responsible to maintain CATE Architecture Directives and Standards in compliance of existing architecture technology landscape in reference to the increasing Cloud Eco System.

·               Collaborated with senior architects to drive the capacity improvement of highly transactional website.

·               Currently architecting several Cloud infrastructure integration projects on AWS and VMWare Cloud platform.

·               Spearheaded several cloud infrastructure initiatives for the E-Commerce platform (in-sourcing of technology platform from physical servers to Citi VMWare Platform, migration on java applications to IBM WebSphere in Cloud virtualization platform).

·               Manage multiple project plans, WBS, Projects estimates and help Program manager managing the initiative.

 

McGraw Hill – Global Infrastructure and Operation                                                    Sept 2011 - Oct 2012

Senior Solutions Architect (Consultant)  

·               Responsible for delivery of Enterprise Architecture function in the region in line with Global Enterprise Architecture standards and directions to the business sector.

·               Responsible for architecting high-level solution design for projects and program plan, budget, schedule development, actively lead and align business needs and strategies with IT enabling solutions for enterprise.

·               Architected mobility application strategy providing analytical support to have common mobility platform hosted in private cloud, hands on experience in integration of large cloud platform.

·               Created high level architecture solution for McGraw Hill Equity Research an e-commerce application migrating in to new data centers on the latest Weblogic 10.3.5 platform and was responsible for defining business requirements and focused on engineering best practices.

·               Architected, design and delivered fault tolerant database architecture for production and disaster recovery sites using Oracle 11g database.

·               Build solution architecture design package for capacity augmentation project, and was responsible for designing LDOMs for eight critical financial applications deployed in production and DR sites.              

·               Architected solutions in EC2, EBS, S3 Amazon cloud platform for various e-commerce applications and ensure alignment of technology used in the solution design.

·               Architected solution design for five mission critical applications using Linux virtualizations platform defining global load balancing architecture utilizing 100% uptime between the two data centers.

·               Created high level design in cloud architecture and developed technology strategies and led implementation efforts to create an effective practical process in application integration.

·               Architected and tested POC using AWS cloud solution using EC2 and RDS for creating Wordpress Site and configured failover for 99.99% uptime.

·               Created high level design package for Oracle 10g to Oracle 11g migration, was responsible for defining migration strategy and process, led implementation efforts implementing Oracle DB solution enterprise wide.

·               Architected Oracle data models designed to be hosted on cloud container to support transactional and operational data stores.

·               Architected and led the effort in successfully implementing the J2EE and .NET projects and giving the guidance to each individual from the implementation team.

·               Build Solution Design packages on Share Point development project for infrastructure project repository.

·               Architected and delivered solution on Cloud automation using Chef framework on AWS cloud integration project.

 

AXA Equitable.                                              Aug 2010 - Aug 2011

Senior Solutions Architect (Consultant)

·               Architected, design and delivered an integration effort in in-sourcing third party hosted Annuity application in to AXA data centers(distributed and Mainframe applications) and saved $15MM.

·               Responsibilities include interfacing with senior executives for capacity planning, incident and risk management, data security, infrastructure management and budgeting, network management, data center migration and infrastructure virtualization.

·               Architected, design and implemented first-ever AWS private cloud environment by deploying VPC public cloud as proof of technology by deploying Apache webserver and configured failover topology for AXA Retirement applicaton.

·               Architected solution on creating architecture design document on Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) to support multiple environments and multiple payloads in parallel.

·               Worked on creating high level architecture design for the AXA's Retirement Gateway product to use wholesale channel to sale the products through the external brokers.

·               Architected solution on Oracle v11g migration strategy planning for 100 plus web based applications including OSB 11g R1 implementation.

·               Worked on designing conceptual data model based on the requirement, Discussed the Data model, data flow and data mapping with the application development team.

·               Architected and design first-ever cloud solution (on AWS platform) as a POC for Annuity applications and tested the application for enduser performance.

·               Architected and Design ESB structure for Annuity production application using B2B Gateway(IBM Datapower), Tubmleweed, IBM Datastage, WebSphere Message Broker, Security OBLIX and LDAP.

·               Architected application deployment strategy plan called “build once and deploy many” during the Websphere application server v6.1 platform migration.

·               Created presentation for C level officers on implementing Websphere v6.1 on zLinux.

·               Presented Data center solution using virtualization on application and demonstrated cost befits on technology selection i.e. Cloud Platform vs Physical infrastructure.

·               Architected and design an EIB reference architecture using IBM DataPower, Datastage, Oracle Access Mgr.

·               Architected SOA reference architecture for 401k System integration project and created high level design document on each build stage.

·               Presented architecture solution on Dual Factor Authentication for Outlook Web Access used by the enterprise wide systems.

·               Worked consistently on the TOGAF standards implementation in ADM process required in each projects.

 

Citi Smith Barney                June 2006 – July 2010

AVP / Sr. Infrastructure Architect – GWM E-Commerce    

·   Architected solution in proof of technology and pilot of WebSphere Application Server migration from WAS v5.1 to WAS v6.1.

·   Architected and implemented products including Wily Introscope ver 6 and mValent.

·   Architected efforts on data center migration and application server migration project, migrated platform WebSphere Application Server ver5.1 to ver6.1 on RedHat Linux platform.

·   Architected and hosted pre-production application environment in Sales Force cloud prior their migration.

·   Architected and developed best practices for WebSphere Application integration and deployment using JACL and Jython scripts across the enterprise.

·   Architected and developed best practices for WebSphere Lombardi v7 required for hosting applications.

·   Architected and developed client server solution including OSB 11g in poc environment.

·   Supported Load testing and performance analysis in Production environment for high volume transactional applications.

·   Spearheaded infrastructure initiatives in implementing performance utilization solution using Wily Introscope v6.0 for WebSphere and Weblogic application environments across the enterprise.

·   Architected solution on SOA integration services using Tibco Business Works and ActiveMatrix products.

·   Created poc for multifactor authentication engine to test high risk Citi financial application

·   Developed high performance computing strategy using Metamatrix grid computing technology.

·   Excellent experience in the backup and recovery of data including Business Continuity Planning/Testing, Disaster Recovery and the development of Offsite Tape Storage Procedures. In addition, experience includes the administration and configuration Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) backup software

·   Extensive experience of storage area networks (SAN), local area networks (LAN), data warehouses/centers, and disaster recovery solutions.

·   Training received from Amazon Web Services on cloud platform integration services.

·   Managed team of tweenty people (off shore).

Federal Reserve Bank                                                                                                   Nov 2003 - May 2006

Lead Architect

·   The FedACH Services product suite application provides financial institutions with efficient, low-cost batched payment services that enable an electronic exchange of debit and credit transactions through the Automated Clearing House (ACH) network, provides financial institutions with efficient, low-cost batched payment services that enable an electronic exchange of debit and credit transactions through the Automated Clearing House (ACH) network, Treasury applications and migration.

·   Participated in proof of technology and pilot of WebSphere Application Server migration.

·   Lead research and proof of concepts on the J2EE Performance and Availability Management. Evaluated, compared and tested several major monitoring products including BMC Patrol and Wily Introscope ver. 5 and 6.

·   Participated in the project of migrating from WebSphere 5.0.2.3 to 6.0.2.3,  Developed best practices for WebSphere Application integration and deployment using JACL and Jython across the company.

·   Supported J2EE applications deployment and installation using Jacl and Jython.

·   Involved in design and configuration in Veritas Cluster environment for Tiered architecture and for WebSphere Work load management (WLM).

·   Led efforts in supporting DB2 UDB and Oracle 8i in the application Production environment

·   Supported Load testing and performance analysis in Production environment.

·   Completed training in Wily Introscope ver 6.0 for WebSphere.v5.1.

·   Worked on creating n-Tier infrastructure architecture for WebSphere server farm and DB2 database

·   Led the team of two people.

·   Defined and implemented effective program management as a part of a comprehensive solution to ensure successful projects.

 

Verizon Wireless                                         Oct 2002 - Oct 2003

Senior Member of Technical Staff                                                       Team Size: 7             

·   Provided PMO, PPM, and Project Management solution strategy, consulting, best practices, and creative solutions to meet customer needs leading to greater sales and product adoption.

·   Served as IT program manager for multiple projects from project planning / timeline setup, project deliverables management and status reports, capacity planning, to development life cycle and change management.

·   Architected and led on the WebSphere Ver 3.5.5 installation configuration and support to the development as well on production systems.

·   Led on IBM AIX 4.3.3 operating system and configured WebSphere on the performance measures.

·   Led on the migration from WebSphere 3.5.5 to WebSphere 4.0.5.and created infrastructure for 3 tiers.

·   Led on the capacity planning on the AIX 4.3.3 and Solaris 7.

·   Architected on the configuration of OS390 mainframes to have connectivity to the WebSphere and created the admin repository and application repository.

·   Worked on IBM’s Secure Way directory Structure (LDAP).

·   Created Unix Shell scripts for the administration and production code deployment use.

·   Created templates for the development code deployment and ease the track of development code.

·   Wrote documents on the every steps involved in the product migration on the WebSphere 4.0

 

Aetna Inc. Hartford CT                                                                                          May 2002 - Sept. 2002

Lead Architect

·   Architected, design migration process on WebSphere v3.5 to WebSphere 3.5.6 in the production application environment.

·   Led efforts with team on MQ series configuration on WebSphere MQ components for the newly developed applications.

·   Responsible for application code deployment from WebSphere Application Development tool.

·   Resolved migration problems with WebSphere 3.5.3 to WebSphere 4.0.2.

·   Worked on installation JDBC drives for DB2, Oracle, SQL (Merant Sqllink), Sybase.

·   Led efforts in installing and configuring DB2 database for WebSphere 4.0.3 and migrated to WebSphere v4.0.3

·   Responsible to debug and analysis on the application errors for any related problem on the application deployment and development problems.

·   Developed capacity planning document on the Unix systems and the WebSphere Application server and supporting storage systems.

 

 

 

Paine Webber Inc.                                                                                            Nov 1999 - April 2002

Platform Support Manager                         Team size: 11

·               Architected, designed and implemented first-ever Java based WebSite using IBM WebSphere Application Server ver 3.0 for painwebber.com site.

·               Led the SME team on server farm development on WebSphere Application Server 3.0 across the enterprise.

·               Involved in configuration of WebSphere Security by installing LDAP secureway Directory Server

·               Responsible for communicating with developers for any application related issues and keep 100% uptime.

·               Responsible for creating E-Web reports from the Web Servers (created Reporting Server).

·               Responsible for creating adhoc reports for the business IT team.

·               Responsible in setting up the UNIX server environment and hosting the Web application for the Web application unit testing.

·               Wrote Java classes, Java servlet for the Web related requirements during the application testing.

·               Wrote database script for reporting and business reporting scripts to support the production environment.

·               Wrote UNIX wrapper script to interface with Sybase database to test the database availability.

 

EXODUS INC.                                                                                                                July 1999 - Oct 1999

Senior Web Hosting Architect

Exodus is one of the largest Internet data hosting companies holding 40% of the business in the Internet world. I was assigned to work as a Proserv System Engineer for system administration on Sun and Digital UNIX hardware and operating system.

 

·               Responsible for installation and configuration of Sun E450 and E250 as a Web server in server farm.

·               Led configuration efforts in configuring Veritas Volume Manager 3.1 /File system on all the Solaris Systems.

·               Led efforts on network re-engineering and performance tuning on Solaris servers.

·               Responsible to architect and configure Cisco 7000 series router for the T1 line.

·               Architected and installed Cisco 7500 series router configured for in-feed network in data centers.

·               Architected and deployed Cisco local director and configured to support 18 Web servers virtually.

·               Project completed on installation of Digital Store Edge Array for Digital database cluster.

 

MERRILL LYNCH                                                                                 Aug 1998 - June 1999

Technical Leader

·               Responsible to build a Solaris based test network for Year 2000 product testing and version control project.

·               Led project efforts in installation of Oracle Database server across the enterprise

·               Wrote test modules in Shell as a wrapper to convert the test programs.

·               Responsible for simplified the product installation process as per the Merrill Lynch standard software definition.

·               Led project efforts in deployments of the Asset Insight all over America, Europe, Asia, Japan and Australia.

·               Led project in defining the standard method on application foot printing for Merrill Lynch in-house applications.

·               Designed and wrote the standard installation procedures on product testing in terms of Year 2000.

·               Wrote SQL queries for testing the Oracle database.

·               Led efforts in tested the network traffic at the time of each inventory process management.

·               Responsible for certifying the Solaris 2.6 operating system for Year 2000 compliance.

·               Led project efforts in installing required OS patches on Solaris 2.6 and SunOS 4.X clients to make it Year 2000 complaint.

CHASE MANHATTAN BANK                                                                                          Feb 1997 - July 1998

Senior Technical Lead

·               Promoted to manage the distributed storage infrastructure with primary goals of stabilizing the service and reducing the unit cost.

·               Provided Sun Solaris system administration support and networking expertise for Security Lending unit.

·               Responsible for developing Lotus Notes 4.5 Server farm on MS-Windows NT OS environment

·               Responsible for installation and configuration of Sun SPARC 20 workstation for all Trading applications.

·               Set up a Sun Sparc Station for Financial Trading Systems for traders communications for Market Data.

·               Involved in the installation of 34 Sun Sparc Stations and networked them with NIS+ Server and NFS Server in the implementation of a new floor for traders in Chase. Administration of Solaris 2.5.

·               Worked on Lotus Notes 4.5 Server and workstation implementation.

·               Responsibilities included creating architecture for network security, installation and configuration and provided expert support for Sun Solaris systems.

 

Technical Manager - MADGE BRITISH NETWORKS LTD. UK                          July 1996 - Jan 1997

Senior Network Architect - HONG KONG TELECOM, Hong Kong                     May 1995 - June 1996

Network Architect - BANK OF AMERICA Mumbai, India                               Sept 1992 - April 1995

EDUCATION:

·   BS in Industrial Electronics Engineering.  

·   VMCI Institute of Computer Engineering.

·   Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Science

·   Specialization in Software Application Development

CERTIFICATIONS:

·   IBM Certified WebSphere 5.1 Administration Multiplatform Expert

·   IBM Certified WebSphere Application Servere Administration Expert

·   Novell Certified Netware Engineer (CNE): Novell USA Upgraded with ver. 2.0, 3.11, 3.12, 4.0

·   Cloudera Certified Administrator Apache Hadoop (CCAH), expected in March 2016.

Training:

·   Cloudera Apache Hadoop Architecture and Hadoop Administration Training, Cloudera University.

·   Amazon AWS Advance Architecture and Security training, Amazon.

·   Amazon Web Services training on AWS Cloud data center migration.

·   Amazon AWS and Big Data Integration in Private Cloud, Training from Amazon.

·   OpenStack Cloud service boot camp.

·   Oracle Database 11g Administrator bootcamp.

·   Sun Certified Systems Administrator (SCSA) in Sun Solaris 2.8

·   The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

·   Solaris 10 for Experienced System Administrators (SA-225-10), Sun Microsystems

·   Solaris System Performance Management (SA-400), Sun Microsystems

·   Sun Fire 15K/12K Server Administration (ES-421), Sun Microsystems

·   Veritas Cluster Server 4.0 for Solaris (Suite), Veritas

·   Leadership and Management Fundamentals.