Management Project

Kishantha Galappatti ***********@*****.***

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Parsippany NJ 07054 201-***-****

Executive Summary

Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, possessing fourteen (14) years of financial services experience.

Over 7 years of technical architecture and design experience in the Grid Computing and High Performance Computing domains.

Particular strengths in team management, technology leadership and Project Management.

Work Experience

Feb 2011 - Present, HPC/Grid Architect and Subject Matter Expert, Annuities IT, Prudential Financial, NJ

• Lead team of engineers and analysts as part of the AMP (Actuarial Modernization Project) HPC Initiative to design Prudential's next generation HPC grid infrastructure based on Microsoft HPC Server on Windows 2008 R2.

• Formulate strategies and recommendations to optimize existing compute environments to better utilize compute capacity.

• Design, architect and implement on-demand load balancing capabilities to meet business requirements for peak processing demand.

• Participate and present designs and architectural concepts to Annuities IT Architectural Review Board.

• Design and setup various Proof of Concept (POC) environments to test configurations and evaluate vendor products in the Grid/GPU/Cloud computing space.

• Work with enterprise technology teams to deploy solutions into Production.

• Manage overall project initiatives and deliverables according to project plan.

• Responsible for the successful execution of multiple program initiatives including Operating System Optimization, Grid Scheduler Optimization and development of Capacity Measurement and Planning tools.

• Architected infrastructure design to combine 7 separate grids running various 3rd party grid software including PolySystems Annuity Master, MG-ALFA, MG-HEDGE and MG-Triton into one Actuarial Uni-Grid on MS-HPC.

• Architected scalable, highly available MS-HPC Uni-Grid using MS Failover Clustering and shared disk technology.

• Designed on-demand resource sharing across multiple applications in the Actuarial Uni-Grid using Resource Pooling within MS-HPC.

• Designed workload management across contingency grids for disaster recovery using Windows Deployment Services (WDS) to re-deploy compute nodes.

Feb 2001 – Feb 2011, Vice President, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., New York, NY.

• Managed Platform Infrastructure Team for Market Risk Management and Analysis (MRMA) which included over 10,000 servers and other associated infrastructure and a multi-million per annum technology infrastructure budget.

• Worked with GS Strategists and Risk Modelers to fit application and model requirements into the overall framework of the grid architecture.

• Designed and scaled out GS Risk Management's High Performance Compute Grid to meet the increasing needs of the risk management business.

• Built an HPC Grid based on the TIBCO Datasynapse grid scheduler scaling to 100k+ CPUs across multiple geographic locations running RedHat Enterprise Linux on commodity hardware.

• Responsible for Capacity Planning/Contingency Planning and growth of grid environment based on business need.

• Grew GS Risk HPC Grid from 1024 CPUs to 10000+ CPUs in less than 5 years.

• Designed and implemented a distributed storage grid to support Risk HPC Grid using NetApp storage technologies.

• Engineered custom solutions to interface between the vendor Datasynapse APIs and GS internally built risk management applications for job submission and management.

• Worked with GS Strategies business area to build out Risk Management distributed data grid replicas using in memory Secdb (Securities Database) architecture for trade positions.

• Responsible for designing and implementing large memory footprint infrastructure across 200+ Red Hat Linux servers to host the in memory Risk Cache.

• Responsible for migration of the Market Risk strategic environment from Solaris to RedHat Enterprise Linux in 2005 as part of the strategic rollout of Linux at GS.

• Prior to my role in Risk Technology I managed the Enterprise Applications Management group supporting the GS Private Wealth Management (PWM) business

• Managed infrastructure design, implementation and support for the entire software stack for GS PWM including Apache Tomcat and JBOSS application servers and multiple J2EE applications.

• Responsible for highly scalable and fault tolerant external and internal facing platform for GS PWM including the use of load balancing technology across multiple hardware components to keep 9.999% uptimes for the PWM Client Web.

• Responsible for highly scalable application component design using Java resource pooling to allow for software component failure across a highly distributed environment.

May 2000 – January 2001, Engagement Manager, Esavio Corporation, Piscataway, NJ

• Responsible for project management and technical lead for a variety of outsourced projects.

• High Availability/Clustering design and implementation using Sun Cluster and Veritas.

• Remote Access, Authentication and Authorization and Single Sign On Project Design.

July 1999 – May 2000, Senior Project Engineer, Sun Professional Services, Sun Microsystems, New York, NY.

• Responsible for Systems Security, Architecture and design.

• Team lead project teams and responsible for customer delivery.

• Implementation management of enterprise scale architectures including Sun clusters.

• Turnkey design and project planning for Sun’s key customers.

• Performance tuning/capacity planning on the Sun Solaris platform.

• In depth work with hardening of Sun Solaris platform for enhanced security environments.

Academic Qualifications

B.Sc. (Honors), First Class, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK, 1997

Major: Information Systems.

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