APM & Splunk Consultant

Around * years of experience across diverse roles, showcasing expertise in Performance Engineering, and Application Performance Management. Adept at implementing cutting-edge technologies and monitoring tools like AppDynamics, New Relic, Dynatrace and SolarWinds. Proficient in utilizing development tools such as Android Studio, Eclipse, and Git for Android application development. Solid understanding of database management with experience in MySQL, SQLite, and Microsoft SQL Server.

Experience in using AppDynamics for monitoring distributed IT infrastructure and applications including servers, operating systems, network services, virtualization software applications, and application components.

Adept at conducting performance root cause analysis using AppDynamics, New Relic, DataDog, Splunk, Dynatrace, ELK, CloudWatch, and DynaTrace, and proficient in log analysis using Splunk.

In-depth knowledge of NewRelic and AppDynamics for monitoring and analyzing network and application infrastructures.

Experience in AppDynamics agents installations.

Experience in troubleshooting and debugging performance issues, ensuring optimal application functionality.

Experience in onboarding the applications to AppDynamics.

Experience in onboarding the application data to Splunk .

Experience in installing SPLUNK apps for Linux and UNIX environments.

Experience in incident management using Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI).

Experienced in maintaining the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure comprehensive dashboard in Splunk.

Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search heads, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, License model.

Technical Skills:

Monitoring Tools: AppDynamics, New Relic, Dynatrace, SolarWinds.

Virtualization: VMware (vSphere, ESX servers), Virtual Box.

Cloud Services: Microsoft Azure, Office 365.

Networking: DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP, Network topology.

Storage: NetApp SAN, EMC SAN, Data Domain.

Collaboration Tools: Git, GitHub, Eclipse.

Mobile Development: Android Studio, Firebase Analytics.

Database: SQL Server, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle.

Scripting/Programming: Shell scripting, Python, Java, Kotlin, Gradle.

Containerization: Docker.

Version Control: Git.

Big Data Technologies: Hadoop, Spark, Hive.

BI & Visualization Tools: Tableau, QlikView, Power BI.

Professional Summary

Verizon Los Angeles, CA

Splunk Consultant Nov 2021 – Present

Responsibilities

Prepared, arranged and tested Splunk search strings and operational strings.

Expertise with Splunk UI/GUI development and operations roles.

Played a major role in understanding the logs, server data and brought an insight of the data for

the users.

Worked as a Splunk Admin for Creating and managing app, Creating users, role, Permissions to knowledge objects.

Prepared, arranged and tested Splunk search strings and operational strings, writing Regex.

Created Dashboards for various types of business users in organization using Splunk, AppDynamics, Datadog.

Created Admin, Power Users and User roles for the application and created the app sharing permissions for the different roles.

Assisted internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboard.

Verify that the currently configured alerts would include the newly onboarded apps

Involved in helping the Unix and Splunk administrators to deploy Splunk across the UNIX and windows environment.

Worked with administrators to ensure Splunk is actively and accurately running and monitoring on the current infrastructure implementation.

Developed Search Processing Language(SPL) queries and dashboards for monitoring, troubleshooting, and reporting purposes.

Created alerts based on the critical parameters, which will trigger emails to the operational team using Splunk, AppDynamics, Datadog.

Setup thresholds, alerts/rules, alert muting, troubleshoot, and resolve any data mismatches in Datadog, AppDynamics and Splunk.

Interact with the data warehousing team regarding extracting the data and suggest the standard data format such that Splunk will identify most of the fields.

Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components (indexer, forwarder, search head, deployment server), Heavy and Universal forwarder, License model.

Involved in standardizing Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance across UNIX and Windows platforms.

Optimized the search performance of Splunk queries and reduced the time for loading the dashboards.

Integrated AppDynamics with Splunk to setup monitoring alert notification system.

Wells Fargo Charlotte, NC

AppDynamics Consultant Aug 2019 – Aug 2021

Responsibilities

Primary person responsible for maintaining and administering AppDynamics practices for end clients.

Responsible for monitoring production environment around the clock using AppDynamics.

Create Agent Groups in AppDynamics for multi-tier applications.

Creating customized dashboards, based on the application owner/team requirements.

Creating and Implementing Health rules and Alerts in AppDynamics for different applications.

Integrating AppDynamics with End User Monitoring (EUM) to monitor Network Tiers.

Monitoring System Host Health, GC Time, Heap Memory, and other different API/KPI and creating custom charts based on the application monitoring requirements.

Creating the JVM Strings/Arguments and working with Middleware Team/Unix Third Party to implement AppDynamics.

Used the office365 like Microsoft word, outlook, excel to share the updates with the application teams, asking them the details of the applications to be onboarded, to get approval from my team and the teams of stakeholders for a change request .

Analyze real-time transactions in Dashboard using End User Monitoring (EUM)

Convert complex performance data into actionable business intelligence

Help Support Team to configure and effectively integrate AppDynamics Agents with RUM best practices

Work closely with end-user groups to ensure operational stability and that services are monitored to meet the front-end needs of the company

Hy-Vee Des Moines, IA

Splunk Consultant Jan 2018 – Jun 2019

Responsibilities

Optimized Splunk for peak performance by splitting Splunk indexing and search activities across

different machines.

Extracted complex Fields from different types of Log files using Regular Expressions.

Created Search Commands to retrieve multiline log events in the form Single transaction giving Start Line and End Line as inputs.

Created HTML dashboards with third party javascripts and css to create beautiful visualizations

Guarantee high accessibility & execution through flat scaling and burden adjusted segments.

Prepared, arranged and tested Splunk search strings and operational strings. Created and configured management reports and dashboards.

Created Dashboards for various types of business users in organization using Splunk, Kibana, Elastic.

Setup thresholds, alerts/rules, alert muting, troubleshoot, and resolve any data mismatches in Elastic, Kibana and Splunk.

Experience in setting up dashboards for senior management and production support- required to use Splunk.

Wrote Splunk queries used to present data in Splunk ITSI.

Served as an administrator for Splunk ITSI.

Created and configured KPI’s in Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI).

Developed Search Processing Language(SPL) queries to search, analyze, and correlate data for troubleshooting, security monitoring, and business intelligence.

Maintained and managed assigned systems, Splunk related issues and administrators.

Created Regular Expressions for Field Extractions and Field Transformations in Splunk.

Configure Splunk for all the mission critical applications and using Splunk effectively for Application troubleshooting and monitoring post go lives

Created Dashboards and Reports to show Login count of each application, to show which app resources being accessed more, Number of failed logins, statistics on High hitting applications.

Created Shell Scripts to install Splunk Forwarders on all servers and configure with common configuration files such as Bootstrap scripts, Outputs.conf and Inputs.conf files.

Configured Splunk forwarder to send unnecessary log events to "Null Queue" using props and transforms configurations to reduce license costs.

Experienced in attending the bridge calls for production issues and non-prod issues and involved application teams or database teams or networking teams to resolve the issues and involved in Root cause analysis for the issues encountered. Also provided 24/7 on call support for all the production applications.

Northwell Health Lake Sucess, NY

Performance Engineer Mar 2015 - Dec 2017

Responsibilities

Collected workflows, established test plans, outlined test environment, scenarios and test scripts.

Analyzed the system requirements and developed test plans using technical specifications.

Performed Sanity and Smoke testing for different applications (JAVA/J2EE).

Designed various processes and design documents based on the specifications defined by the business

Performed Correlation and Parameterization for the script, to ensure the script runs successfully during replay.

Worked with HTTP/HTTPS, SOAP, XML-RPC, JDBC Drivers, POP3/IMAP protocols in JMeter.

Used AutoSys for automated job control system for scheduling, monitoring and reporting.

Performed continuous integration on servers with Jenkins.

Used multithreading framework for concurrent sampling by many threads and simultaneous sampling of different functions by separate thread groups using LoadRunner.

Performed Load, Stress and Scalability, and Performance test using LoadRunner 11.x

Monitored performance tests through HP SiteScope and HP Performance Center.

Monitored database for sessions, connection pool and memory issues using SiteScope.

Recorded and enhanced Vuser Scripts by inserting Transaction points, Rendezvous points into Vuser Script in HP LoadRunner 11.x.

Involved in systems monitoring, OS Metrics using HP SiteScope, HP Diagnostics.

Enhanced VuGen Scripts by Parameterizing the input test data to minimize data caching, unique constraint, and data dependency issue.

Education

Texas A&M University Kingsville, TX

Masters (Information Systems) (2018)

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