mohit agarwal_resume

MOHIT AGARWALTechnical LeadTata Consultancy ServicesPhoenix, AZEmail address: [email protected] Mobile: +1-480-241-0609

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Almost 5 years of total IT experience with Tata Consultancy Services having experience in SOA

DataPower, MQ and related middleware technologies. Worked extensively on various projects utilizing IBM SOA DataPower XI50, XI50B, XC10 and XG45

Gateway appliances. Understands the complexity of integration implementation of the application system, business functionality, tools and processes involved in delivering middleware enabled services.

Worked on waterfall model before moving to AGILE methodology of SDLC last year. Regular participation (and organization, when needed) in team scrum calls to provide update on developmental activities as part of each sprint.

Developed multiple services to provide integration for simple/chained A2A & B2B services on IBM SOA products like XI50B, XG45 and XC10.

Developed services utilizing SOAP, REST and fixed format (over mq) in frontend and backend. Also developed services that have database backend, used IBM Design Studio in the process to analyze SPs and run queries.

Extensive knowledge of AAA, SSL and SLM configurations, among others. IBM Certified on SOA Datapower firmware versions 3.8 and 5.0 and worked on all GA/special build

versions on dataower right from v3.8, v4.2.0.5, 4.2.0.8, 5.0.0.4, 6.0.0.1/nn13/nn18, 7.0.0.4, 7.2. Worked closely with Engineering team to establish SOA Governance guidelines and introduce best

practices in order to stabilize the shared enterprise environment. Good knowledge of unix shell scripting; developed multiple utility scripts being used across the

enterprise for generating reports shared with leadership/end-clients. Worked on networking tools such as Wireshark and AppviewX; created dashboard in AppviewX being

used by admin teams, thus saving significant time and cost to AmEx. Good knowledge of monitoring & reporting tools such as Splunk and ITCAM; built various dashboards in

Splunk and worked extensively on ITCAM for SOA and WDP agents. Also worked as administrator for critical ApplePay/Flux projects; good knowledge of datapower

infrastructure too. End-to-end knowledge and awareness about various frontend/backend systems involved within

American Express utilizing SOA DataPower.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION

Developer/Technical LeadDuration: Oct 2015 - Current

Greg-GIDM, American Express, US

5/1/23 AXP Internal of 5

G-Reg (Global registration) is an application which maintains corporate user’s information and gives authorization access to all corporate applications. Using this application, new corporate user can be setup, access permissions to the different applications are given and their accessibility can be monitored.

GIDM (Globalized Information Delivery Management) is used to implement and maintain the @ Work® Travel and @ Work® Card Enhanced reporting. Since all users of these products must be registered in American Express @ Work®, GIDM is only accessible through the American Express @ Work® Registration tool. Only representatives from GIS with a special @ Work® Contact Type will see the GIDM Link.

Roles and Responsibilities

Participate (and organize, if needed) and provide update in daily scrum calls as part of AGILE

model.

Identify performance bottlenecks in the design, evaluate and propose alternate solutions.

Conduct pre Build session with all the technical stakeholders (onsite as well as offshore), to align

on the strategy to be followed for the build.

Coordinate with offshore team of 30 plus members including SMEs/architects and team members.

Analyze the existing java/SP functionality before designing web services; work with database

team to provide requirement for creation of new optimized stored procedures.

Develop simple or complex chained services based on requirement over SOAP and REST using

http/https protocols.

Ensure all the services are performance tested (endurance/stress/slm) before moving the code to

higher environments.

Coordinate with the Business Users for the User Acceptance Test for the developed Application.

Technical LeadDuration: Jul 2014 – Oct 2015

Enterprise Utility Operations - SOA Data Power, American Express, US

NAP and ETV – Network API Platform (NAP) consists of several critical projects related to Mobile Wallet functionality for American Express. Enterprise Token Vault (ETV) is the technology platform accessible by issuing & acquirer networks to support tokenization services and products. The platform provides secure mapping of an alternative PAN (token) to real card PAN.

APPLE PAY– Apple Pay has been initiated to build the functionality and infrastructure required to provide the Enterprise Mobile Wallet capability for American Express Cards to a key partner Apple for US Market and for key International Markets. This will allow customers to pay in an easy, secure and private way using the NFC technology. The user has to register their credit and debit card as a one-time process and can choose any card (if more than one), while making the payment.



Participate in meetings with development teams/architects and client to discuss technical

requirements.

Launched Apple Pay with 0 defects till date for Digital Networks platform.

Initiated and worked extensively on custom Logging and alerts enhancement which acted as a

model and has been replicated across various Projects in Amex for DataPower alert setup and

monitoring.

Created Unix Shell Scripts for proactive monitoring and automated report generation on ITCAM

Logs.

Participated in meetings with development teams/architects and senior management teams to

discuss project status.

Participated in soft launch (pre-production) testing and performance testing meetings.

Received various appreciations from AMEX leadership for dedication and identifying/mitigating

several showstopper issues proactively and for significant contribution to “Apple Pay” Project

launch.

Developer/Lead, Offshore (Bangalore) Duration: Oct 2011 – July 2014

Enterprise Utility Operations - SOA Data Power, American Express, India

Enterprise Utility Operations SOA DataPower [EUO SOADP] is aimed at enabling AMEX to deliver business solutions with speed and innovation, reliability, performance, and cost effectiveness by providing a high impact Middleware solution. The base products selected for this infrastructure is IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances, These appliances are purpose-built, easy-to-deploy network devices that simplify, help secure, and accelerate XML and Web services deployments while extending SOA infrastructure & offers the highest levels of reliability, availability, security and scalability.


Experience in developing SOAP based and fixed format services involving SSL (one-way, two-way) in the backend and/or frontend.


Good experience in design and configuration of DataPower objects like Network Interfaces, FSHs,

SSL Proxy Profiles, WS Proxy Rules, Load Balancer Groups, XML Managers, AAA Policies, User

Agents, MQ/SQL Objects etc. and deployment of web services and MPGWs.

Developed standalone service to avoid initial latency after appliance reload for highly critical

services across multiple environments. The service is currently being used by multiple application

teams within AmEx.

Initiated and worked extensively on custom Logging and alerts enhancement which acted as a

model and has been replicated across various Projects in Amex for DataPower alert setup and

monitoring.

Experience in working with various network teams to analyze packet captures using WireShark

tool. Worked on creating dashboard using AppViewX v10.6 to negate chances of manual mistakes

while operating on multiple VIPs within SOA Datapower.

Experience in dealing with v3.8, v4.x, v5.x, v6.x and v7.x IBM DataPower SOA appliance

firmware.

Led offshore team of 25+ members and was responsible for assigning various tasks and

providing fix for services in production for 10 months before coming to onsite.

Gather requirement from Clients & perform design/code reviews with support teams and check

for deployment standards, version control and best practices.

SYSTEM EXPERIENCE

Middleware: IBM SOA DataPower XI50, XI50B, XC10, XG45, MQOS: Windows, UNIXLanguages: XSLT, Unix Shell scripting, JSON, Core JavaDatabases: ODA (Oracle Database Appliance), DB2Tools: Splunk, SoapUI, JMeter, WTX, Design Studio v4.2, Eclipse, WireShark, ITCAM for

SOA/WDP, COGNOS, AppViewX v10 (& above), dptool, cman, MS Office tools.

CERTIFICATIONS

IBM Certified Solution Implementer, WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances, Firmware v3.8.1

IBM Certified Solution Implementer, WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances, Firmware v5.0

IBM Certified SOA Associate

TCS Training

July 2011 – Sep 2011 (Core Java), Tata Consultancy Services Limited, India


Hired by TCS as a trainee on Jul 4th, 2011.

Completed TCS Training on Sep 23rd, 2011 from Trivandrum, Kerala in Java.

Post training, posted to Bangalore on Oct 2nd, 2011 as a middleware resource under American

Express client.

EDUCATION

B.Tech (Information Technology) 2011 - Kalyani Government Engineering College (KGEC), Kalyani (W.B.).

Senior Secondary 2006 - Faizabad Public School (FPS), Faizabad (U.P.), CBSE

Matriculation 2004 – J.B. Academy, Faizabad (U.P.), CBSE

CGPA: 8.3

78.4%

88.7%

Foreign Language Skills

English: Professional CommunicationHindi: Advanced/Native CommunicationBengali: Elementary Communication

PERSONAL

Date of Birth : Dec 8, 1988Passport : J7647930 valid thru May 2021Visa : H1-B valid till July 2016.Nationality : Indian


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