G-* Srinidhi Regency

Kasavanahalli, Sarjapur Road

Bangalore – 560036

India

sli5x9@r.postjobfree.com

NITIN GUPTA

An accomplished Build & Release Engineer, able to understand requirements, organize tasks, document processes and data flow,

optimize build solutions, write program code and manage projects. Able to solve problems, provide results, develop

standards, increase productivity, make presentations, and obtain participation from individuals at all levels of the

workforce. Skilled at communicating clearly, both verbally and in writing, and capable of working alone or on a team. Making

organizations to maximally leverage the minimal expenditure on build and release front by effectively reducing build times

hence lowering the waiting time for the whole team impacting 200+ Devs & Tests.

Experience Summary

Intuit Technology Services Pvt Ltd Sr SCM Engineer 7 months till date

Microsoft India R&D Pvt Ltd Build Engineer 4 months

Microsoft India R&D Pvt Ltd Build Engineer 3 years 1 month

Oracle India R&D Pvt Ltd Release Engineer 15 months

Cadence Design Systems Technical Partner/Intern 15 months

Skills

Languages Perl, Shell Scripting, HTML, CGI, C, SQL, Winrunner, Windows Test Techonlogy(WTT)

Web/Component Technologies CGI

Real Time Operating System VxWorks.

Operating Systems DOS, Windows-95/98/NT/2000/2003, Linux(Red Hat), Unix (Flavour – Solaris), Windows Vista, Windows

Server 2008

Build Management tools ARU (Automated Release Updates) - an Oracle proprietary product

Configuration Management RCS, ARCS, Windows SourceDepot, Perforce

Testing Tool WinRunner 7.0, Windows Testing Technology (WTT)

Arifact Management System Sonatype Nexus Repository

Install management Oracle’s AD utilities like adpatch, adadmin, adctrl, adsplice.

Build Systems NT build System, GnuMake, Corext, maven, ant

Continuous Integration Systems Hudson, Home grown Microsoft tool – Nexus

Experience

? Heading as SCM Engineer II the Source Control Management activities and developing the Build System for the Global

Business Division(GBD) of Intuit Technology Services Pvt. Ltd. From 23-July-2009 till date.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Created from scratch the build infrastructure for the various offerings from GBD teams, showcasing it to various

teams and hence making them my customers.

2. Maintaining the central GBD artifact repository using Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager.

3. Developing automated deployment infrastructure.

4. Working on implementing autobuild, deploy and test infrastructure.

5. Implementing various code analysis tools(PMD, Sonar) , code coverage tools(clover).

6. Catering to 100 developer and testers.

7. Producing builds for Nokia 3110, N70, N72, S6500 series phones for our product.

Awards

• Take a Bow Award from Staff Engineer

• Spotlight Award for the quarter

? Worked as a Build Engineer in the Data Protection Manager(Data LifeCycle Management) at Microsoft India(R&D) Pvt.

Ltd., Hyderabad as a vendor, parent company Ikya Human Capital Solutions from 12-Mar-2009 till 17-July-2009.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Maintaining, supporting, and enhancing the Nexus Build System for DPM which included Prefix setup, Prefast, Presharp,

Fxcop, code coverage builds, code signing (Strong name & MD5 signing), upload QFEs and symbols.

2. Creating branches and enabling them for autobuilds through the Nexus Build System.

3. Upgrading the build system to port various new build tools, compilers, linkers, in a whole migrating the whole build

system to the next available versions of the build tools.

4. Maintaining CVT(Checking Verficiation Test) infrastructure and writing the whole system from scratch to wholly

automate it and make it more fault tolerant.

5. Evaluting various build automation tools to switch over to a more reliable one.

6. Catering to 200+ DEV & QA engineers.

? Worked as a Build Engineer in the Windows Core Server Group – Terminal Services team + Data Protection Manager(Data

LifeCycle Management) at Microsoft India(R&D) Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad from 13th February 2006 to 10-Mar-2009. I was the only

Build Engineer in the whole India Development Center catering to the needs of various Windows Teams in IDC.

Job Responsibilities:

Responsible for handling the builds, source depot maintenance for Windows Server Family specifically for Services for Unix

(SFU), SUA SDK, Terminal Services(TS) , Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Windows System & Resource Manager (WSRM),

File System (FS), Windows Media Services(WMS).

Building QFEs, managing the sources (using sourcedepot), Stress Testing of SFU.

Build milestones

• Windows Vista SP1/ Windows Server 2008

• Windows Vista Beta2

• Windows Vista RC1

• Windows Vista RTM

• Windows Longhorn Server Beta3

• Subsystem For Unix Applications(SUA) for Windows Vista – X86, AMD64 architectures

More…

1. Automated the Windows server family builds for the above projects to get tested and verified builds daily, developed

in Perl and using Windows Test Technology (WTT).

2. Building QFEs(Quick Fix Engineering) for:

a) Services For Unix, SFU 2.0

b) Services For Unix, SFU 2.2

c) Services For Unix, SFU 3.0 (English & Japanese)

d) Services For Unix, SFU 3.5 (English & Japanese)

e) Subsystem For Unix Applications(SUA) for Windows 2003 server R2 – X86, AMD64 architectures

f) Subsystem For Unix Applications(SUA) for Windows Vista – X86, AMD64 architectures

g) Subsystem For Unix Applications(SUA) for Windows Vista SP1 and LongHorn Server – X86, AMD64, IA64 architectures.

3. Building the Software Development Kit (SDK) for Vista SUA, Longhorn + Vista SP1 SUA and Win7 SUA SDK.

4. Stress testing the Services for Unix for Vista & Longhorn by using a Stress Framework which used clients of the order

of 50 machines running random tests (about 7000 processes).

5. Automation of OS installations and different product installation for making the jobs easier for people in team, so

as to improve their productivity and can spend more time on other jobs rather than on the mundane thing.

DPM Build Engineer roles

6. Maintaining, supporting, and enhancing the Nexus Build System for DPM which included Prefix setup, Prefast, code

coverage builds, code signing, upload QFEs and symbols.

7. Creating branches and enabling them for autobuilds through the Nexus Build System.

Key accomplishments

? Rolled out a build verifier process and automation which helped the team achieve minimum turn-around time for checkin

verification, in my absence also.

? Reduced build times from 20hrs to 7hrs and utilized team’s expenditure of $70k on high end machines which were lying

idle.

? Reduced build time from 32hrs to 14 hrs for x86 and amd64 official builds for DPM.

Awards

• Engineer of the quarter award in my team.

• Nominated for the Innovation Award for the Build Processes.

Tools developed

a) AutoBuild+BVT tool (worked on the perl part)

Developed using Windows batch scripts, Perl, IIS, VC++, .Net, WTT

This automated build tool(http://idcsrvbld10/configtimebuilds/default.aspx) abolished the mundane manual build process for

getting daily Windows builds. A framework was devised which would queue up the user requests for different builds, store

those cycles and repeat the cycles unless changed, on a daily basis hence producing daily builds without any human

intervention. This framework also incorporated the Build Verification Testing which guaranteed the Devs/Tests of a proper

installable and tested build. This framework was made flexible enough to add any branch to build, add multiple build

machines, also do functional testing of various components.

b) AutoBuild for SUA SDK + BVT

Developed using Windows batch scripts, Perl, Korn shell

This tool comprised of lot of command line scripts which intern made a call to unix command via the SUA subsystem. It used to

produce the build with just a command line. After the build was successful, it was submitted to the same BVT infrastructure

which ran BVT on the successful built SDK.

c) Source Depot Checkin Verifier

Developed using Windows batch scripts, Perl, WTT

This small tool (now not used) used to trap the sd submit command given by the dev to submit the checkin. The dev used to

call the tool’s sd command which created a bbpack of the opened files and submitted that bbpack to a set of build machines

via WTT job. The bbpack was expanded and a build (bcz/partial timebuild) was launched depending on the changes. The build

status was mailed to the developer. In addition to this test prioritization using Magellan was done which used to give out

the test cases that need to be run on the built binaries replaced in an already installed OS / newly installed OS. Those test

cases were run on the build (with the privates) and the result was sent to the Dev again. Based on these the dev used to do

the checkin.

? Worked as an Operations Engineer in the Financials Release Team at Oracle India Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad from 14th October

2004 – 13th January 2006.

Job Responsibilities:

Being the member of the Release team, the job profile includes build management, product certification, install

testing/validations of Oracle’s Financials products, preparation and maintenance of Oracle Apps environments, benchmarking,

enforcement of quality standards, data model gate-keeping using Designer6i, development of internal tools and automation of

release management processes.

Successfully released

• Oracle Projects Family Pack M (11i.PJ_PF.M)

• Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 CU1 (11.5.10.1)

• Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 CU2 (11.5.10.2)

• Oracle Financials Suite 11i.FIN_PF.G

• Oracle Financial Services Suite 11i.SEM_PF.A

• Worked on the release of Oracle Financials Suite R12.FIN_PF.A

• Various Off cycle consolidation packs for Oracle Projects Suite, Oracle Financials Suite

More…

1. Responsible for development of various Release Tools and reporting tools using CGI-Perl and shell scripting, both

web-based and command line.

2. Responsible for Release of Oracle Application Financials, CRM, Financial Services (more than 100 products) being part

of the Release Team

3. Processing data model changes to the central database (case & seed)

4. Certifying various releases of Oracle Applications on different environments and automating the certification

process.

Tools developed

a) Automated Family Pack Updater

Developed using CGI, Perl, SQL, Win runner, Java

This web based UI takes patch set number to be worked on and does the needful as specified in the job (add patches, remove

patches, close patch set, reset a patch set) for a mass update. User is given a UI in which he can submit his request, which

is stored in a database and then a Java client on web-server talks to java program on the Win runner server, which takes the

request from the database in a spreadsheet format and updates the ARU depending on the request, with the data supplied by the

user. The Win runner server has Win runner scripts written which go on and update the ARU for the given patch set, when

triggered by the java client at the win runner server. This tool used to save 5 man hours for FIN_PF, PJ_PF, SEM_PF each i.e.

5*3= 15 man hours / week.

b) Task management System(TMS)

As I used to work in a trans-continental team, which means 24x7 work, it was quite difficult to give/get updates and

co-ordinate for the work as the patch application used to takes days. So to encounter this, our team developed a Task

management system which had all the task template in it and the worker just used to update the various steps he/she

performed. This was the worker didn’t need to remember the steps and also the next worker across the continent used to get

the task in the state where his buddy left it with all the errors & logs listed in the TMS.

c) Family Pack Reports Generator

Developed using CGI, Perl, SQL

This HTML generating perl utility reports Bugs, QA efforts, Manifests, Access & Change Requests in tabular & graphical manner

reporting it for the whole life cycle of the Family Pack & the Mini packs.

It queried the various databases involved on 4-hourly basis (put to cron) and laied the data in the most efficient manner

using hashes.

The utility is made generic by making an XML file acting as an input in which user can put in all the related stuff making

the utility to report for a particular Family Pack / Mini Pack of any product family available in Oracle Application Suites.

This report was consulted by upper management in deciding crucial release dates & milestone dates.

d) ARCS(Automated Revision Control System) Wrapper

Developed using Legacy arcs, perl, bash

This wrapper on top of the legacy arcs source control system acts as a gatekeeper to the source control repository, keeping a

check on what is going into it. It checks various files when being source controlled, and depending on the file type, applies

various standard checks and then only source controls the files.

e) Automated GSCC Checker

Developed using CGI, Perl

This utility checks out the files prepared by the development team against the GSCC (Global Standards Compliance Checker) on

a daily basis as a proactive measure so that patch build failures do not occur at the end (GSCC is run during patch build).

It also prechecks the files for any GSCC errors that can be removed at the source and removes them.

f) Files Violating the Branch Strategy Checker

Developed using CGI, Perl, SQL

To make a bug fix for the patches/products already delivered to the customers branching is done so that the customer can get

the bug fixes as a consolidated patch. These bug fixes should also be present in the main line code for a family pack that

has a different code line. So without increasing the versions of the files, bug fixes are provided by branching on the

version of the already delivered code. The files that are not branched properly are caught up in this utility and are

reported in realtime whenever needed.

This perl utility produces a list of patches that have the branch violating files with a drill down to files and their

versions listing the coder of the file so that he can fix the branch.

? Worked from 25th May 2003 – 30th August 2004 as a Technical Partner(Intern) at Cadence Design Systems, Noida.

1. Responsible for development of web based automatic backup (Legato & Veritas) reporting, request and automation of

various backup processes (using Perl, CGI, and shell scripting)

2. Providing Windows System Administration Support.

3. Automation of daily backup error report generation and checking the backup daemons’ states.

4. Automating various other day-to-day backup tasks.

Tools Developed

a) Legatoworks

Developed using CGI, Perl, Oracle

This web based backup reporting tool for Legato collects the details of the backup that is happening and uploads it daily to

a custom created database which is then used for generating outputs various common queries for failures and successes of

backup and other lookups as desired by user via a web interface. The backup requests (new & restore) are also made through

this tool by submitting a ticket internally to Remedy Database, which is then later on handled by the backup admins.

b) Veritas NetBackup Reporter

Developed using CGI, Perl, Ploticus

This web based backup reporting tool for Veritas NetBackup gives the user the details of all the backup activities (Tape

Usage, Backup Failures, Successes, the backup Queue) reporting them in a tabular and a graphical fashion as per user desire.

It is a mimic of the Veritas NetBackup Reporter available with the Veritas Netback Tool, which was designed by me

specifically to meet Cadence’s requirements using CGI/Perl and a graph-plotting tool Ploticus.

Education

December, 2002 to April, 2003

CMC Ltd.

Certificate Course in Embedded Systems

Studied VxWorks, Microcontrollers (8051), DSP (SHARC Processor).

• 86%

August, 98 to June, 2002

Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering

(4years duration, entry through – CEET, Haryana)

• 70%

March, 1998

NEW ERA PUBLIC SCHOOL, Mayapuri Road, New Delhi

Board - CBSE, Exam – AISSCE (Class XII)

• 81.4%

• Was awarded proficiency certificates for outstanding performances all through in

Computer Science, Physics, and Chemistry.

March, 1996

NEW ERA PUBLIC SCHOOL, Mayapuri Road, New Delhi

Board - CBSE, Exam – AISSE (Class X)

• 82.4%

achievements

• Was in first 10% of total students appeared in National Standard Exam in Physics (NSEP)

• Won 1st prize in On the Spot Programming Competition 'Spectrum' held at Army Public School, Noida (XI).

• Won 1st prize in On the spot Programming Contest "Sahityik2k2", a national level fest held at MMEC, Mullana sponsored

by The Hindustan Times & ISTE, Student’s Chapter.

• Won 1st prize in On the spot Programming Contest “Tech-Scenario2K1”, an ISTE national level technical fest held at

GTBKIET, Malout, Punjab

• Won 3rd prize in C programming contest "Maximum C" held in college.

• Worked as a member of the organizing committee in Blood Donation Camp organized by Indian Medical Association, Ambala

in the college.

• Engineer of the quarter award at Microsoft

• Take a Bow Award at Intuit

• Spotlight award for the quarter at Intuit

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