Arul Selvan Information Technology Leader (Software Engineering|CyberSecurity|Cloud|DevOps) Online Resume: https://selvans.net/resume/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aselvan Cyber Security Certification: https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/professional-cert/CGGD56D4M6BV GitHub: https://github.com/aselvan StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/cv/aselvan ServerFault: https://serverfault.com/users/133546/arul-selvan?tab=profile Overview ======== Though my online resume mentions the areas listed below, the following areas highlight some relevant experience in detail specifically for the hiring manager to get a quick overview of my expertise w/ out going through my full resume. I have over three decades of software development experience and 15 years of leadership role at various capacities, I do have significant amount of experience in areas below. Cybersecurity: -------------- Threats, risks & vulnerabilities, Incident response, SIEM tools, Security hardening, Security frameworks & controls. Container/Cloud/DevOps: ----------------------- Leadership experience in building microservices based solutions from scratch and/or refactor existing legacy applications to scalable microservice using Docker/Swarm technologies. Experience in leading DevOps group to create/maintain/support pre-production infrastructure (on AWS EC2 using Chef), release management, environments for development, integration testing, performance testing, and full service CICD support. Linux (Administration, Securing/Hardening, Kernel, Networking, Scripting): -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Experience in installing and configuring popular distros like Ubuntu as well as building custom kernel and base components from source. Setup and configure basic services like sshd, apache, tomcat, postfix, PostgreSQL etc. Experience in securing a Linux box at network level using iptable, ufw, tripwire, fwknopd etc, as well as application level securing techniques like chrooting postfix, apache, and securing sshd with two factor authentication (PAM GoogleAuthenticator module). Knowledge in SPAM filtering in postfix with clamAV, SpamAssasin, SPF policy service, DNSBL/RBL checks. Knowledge in securing apache with mod_sercurity2, mod_rewrite, mod_spamhaus etc. Experience at commercial level (while I am at McAfee), building kernel modules, building network sniffer products, network security forensic appliance that captures data at line speed. Here is a link to that original product today [http://www.netscout.com/products/enterprise/ngenius_data_sources/Pages/nGenius_InfiniStream_Appliances.aspx ]. Practical knowledge/experience in bash, sh, awk, sed as well as perl to create handy scripts for various automation tasks throughout my career. Mobile Application Dev ---------------------- Lead a mobile team to develop both android and iOS facilites applicaiton that works in tandem with the web applications to help create service requests, order processing as well as IOT functions like lock/unlock apartment units and common areas. SaaS: ----- During my past tenure at Realpage Inc, I was the head of the global software engineering organization as well as hands-on technology leader. During my stay, I led the design, architecture, development and delivery of several SasS applications (highly interactive web application and SOAP based webservice pricing engine) which services about 100+ clients (scaling it from 30 clients to 100+ during the course of 4 years while I was at RealPage. Also, I was responsible for production hardware/software support, customer support, compliance, SAS70 auditing (type I & II) etc for the SaaS solution. At present in RealPage, leading a large global (Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, Hyderabad & Manila) software engineering organization; responsible for overseeing design/architecture, development, delivery & support of multiple SaaS applications spanning across variety of areas including property management, utility management, spend management, facilities management, vendor management, accounting, asset management, mobile applications. API/WebSerice: -------------- At CapitalOne, I lead the design, architecture, development and delivery of variety of APIs (RESTful) and SOAP webservice components. These web components provided valuable and business critical functionality to variety of LOB (line of business) such as Mobile, Banking, Enterprise Services, Loan Origination, Scoring/Decisioning which enabled Capital One LOB products to stay well ahead of competition. Enterprise Class Application Development: ----------------------------------------- I have an extensive, and consistently proven experience in leading full life cycle of enterprise class applications development using Java technology and open source stack. The experiences range from individual contributor level to all the way to VP level. I have a solid track record of creating scalable systems in a variety of areas such as: financial systems, internet/e-commerce, network management/security, messaging services, EAI, etc using JavaEE, C/C++, and variety of OpenSource technologies. Middleware: ----------- Experience in design/development of EAI components to bridge legacy mainframe systems to modern webservice environment with seamless integration webservices components and IBM WebsphereMQ. I lead the design, architecture, development and delivery of this to Bank Of America while I was at Experian which resulted in a $15MM revenue for Experian in software and services. I have significant amount of hands-on experience in building messaging framework to run under any MOM (IBM MQ, TIBCO, Webmethods), on any platform with little or no change. C/C++: ------ Well over 15+ years of experience in C/C++ in building distributed (CORBA based) commercial applications at Raytheon, GE, Erdas Inc. Agile/Scrum & SAFe: ------------------ Leading and practicing agile principles with scrum framework for the past 5+ years including playing SM (Scrum Master) role often on a as needed basis in addition to managing a highly technical software team. Part of a team of leardership group to lead the effort of transformation to SAFe in the last 4 years in my tenure at CapitalOne and currently at RealPage. Industry Experience: -------------------- I have a wide variety of industry experience ranging from space technologies (satellite image processing), finance (banking and credit), e-commerce, health care (medical imaging/diagnostic), network/security, supply chain and multifamily industries. Endorsements: ------------- Last but not least, please review my LinkedIn profile for peer/management/client endorsements.