Kaushik Pal

IBM India Pvt Ltd

+91-799*******/947-***-****

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Experience Summary

Organized and detail-oriented cloud automation/orchestration engineer with more than 3.4 years’ experience in VMware vRealize Automation and Orchestration. I am a quick learner and have mostly worked on vRealize Orchestrator scripting for sever provisioning and integration with various tools. I have also developed small end automation scripts with PowerShell, PHP etc. for clients like Warner Media, Royal HaskoningDHV, etc.

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

: C, C++.

Web Programming

Scripting Languages

: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JQuery, MSSQL, MYSQL

: Powershell, PowerCLI, JavaScript

Tools &Technologies

: NetBeans, Eclipse, VMware vSphere5.5 and 6.0, VMware vRealize Automation 6.2 and 7.4, Tomcat, XAMPP, Infoblox, Oputils, ManageEngine, WinSCP, Putty, Postman, FileZilla

Operating System

: Ubuntu, Windows, Suse, RHEL

Orchestrator Tools

: VMware vRealize Orchestrator, Puppet

Education

2012-2016

B.Tech (Information Technology)

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal (Formerly, WBUT)

8.58(GPA)

2011-2012

XII (AISSCE)

Surendranath Centenary School, Ranchi (CBSE)

76.0%

2009-2010

X (AISSE)

Surendranath Centenary School, Ranchi (CBSE)

9 (GPA)

Certifications & Licenses

1.Professional - Level 2 in PHP

2.Data Centre Virtualization Fundamentals [V6]

3.VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V7.0]

4.VTSP-SV(Server Virtualization 2016)

5. vRO Livefire - Master

6.MTA: Database Fundamentals - Certified 2016

Trainings (External)

Training in VMware vRealize Automation from Koenig Solutions

Training in VMware vRealize Orchestrator from VMware

Projects

The details of the various assignments that I have handled are listed here, in chronological order.

Project

Royal HasokingDHV (Tata Consultancy Services)

Period

2017/02 – 2017/04

Description

Project involved creating an in-house automation tool using vRO, OPutils and Manage Engine.

Role

Workflow Developer

Responsibilities

Requirement analysis and validation

Develop workflow to integrate OpUtils.

Develop the workflow for server provisioning.

Develop workflow to add the server to Manage Engine.

Unit testing and integration testing of owning use cases.

Solution Environment

VMWare

Tools

vRealize Orchestrator, OPUtils, Manage Engine.

Project

Warner Media (Tata Consultancy Services)

Period

2017/04 – 2017/12

Description

Project involved supporting and implementing new ideas to automate the daily tasks in the VMware Infrastructure.

Role

VMware Administrator

Responsibility

Daily Health Check Report

PowerShell/PowerCLI scripts for automating daily tasks.

Configuring new ESXi hosts

Troubleshooting and fixing outages

Managing physical and Virtual servers

Disaster Recovery Testing

Solution Environment

VMWare, Windows, RHEL

Tools

VMware vSphere 5.5,6.0,6.5

Project

American Express (Tata Consultancy Services)

Period

12/2017 – 02/2018

Description

The POC requirement was to self-heal VMs which are having a resource crisis and managing resources for better utilization of resources.

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Role

Workflow Developer

Responsibilities

Developing a workflow such that the customer gets an option for self-healing and better resource utilization without vROPs.

Developing a workflow for self-healing and better resource with vROPs.

Solution Environment

VMware

Tools

vRealize Orchestrator, PowerShell

Project

Warner Media (Tata Consultancy Services)

Period

12/2017 – 06/2019

Description

To support the current vRA infrastructure and integrate with the latest tool as per the customer requirements.

Role

vRA Administrator and Workflow Developer

Responsibilities

Troubleshooting server build related errors.

Integration of SNOW with vRA for auto builds.

Developing a XASS blueprints.

Developing workflow for retriggering workflow with SNOW request numbers.

Developing workflow for migrate VMs across DC.

Developing workflow to extend lease of all machines in the environment.

Manage the reservations in vRA.

Daily Health Check for vRA/vRO.

Solution Environment

VMware, Windows, RHEL

Tools

vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestrator, ServiceNow, vRealize CloudClient, Postman

Project

Warner Media Security (Tata Consultancy Services)

Period

12/2018 – 02/2019

Description

To create a website for Qualys Automation

Role

Web Developer

Responsibilities

Requirement analysis and validation

Creating a webpage for end users for allowing adding names of reports that are required to be uploaded to share point.

Creating a backend webservice to automatically search and find all the required reports from Qualys Website and upload it to share point at scheduled time in encrypted format.

Unit testing and integration testing of owning use cases.

Solution Environment

Qualys, Windows

Tools

PHP, Qualys WAS, Filezilla, MySQL, jQuery

Project

Kaiser Permanente (IBM)

Period

07/2019 – till now

Description

To support the current vRA infrastructure

Role

vRA and vRO Administrator/Developer (Technical Lead)

Responsibilities

Troubleshooting server build error.

Handle changes requested by the customer.

Daily health check for vRA/vRO.

Creating new workflows for Day2 actions.

Working on removing build failures due to IP conflict issue from the environment.

Troubleshooting Puppet errors

Certificate upgrade in vRA and powershell proxy

Providing pro active solutions for short comings in the environment.

Analysing new workflows to be implemented into the environment.

Roster Management

Understanding people skill level and engaging them accordingly

Attending weekly calls to explain the existing issues in the environment to the clients and IBM folks.

Solution Environment

VMware, Windows, RHEL

Tools

vRealize Automation, vRealize Orchestrator, ServiceNow, Puppet

Extracurricular

1.Participated and won third prize in Herculean Hackathon.

2.Participated and won second prize in Ideathon.

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