About

Vivek Kumar is a highly skilled Software Engineer Applications 3 at Ciena, with over 10 years of experience in Java application design, development, architecture, and performance tuning. He has worked across Services and Product based organizations and taken up various roles including Individual Contributor, Team Lead, and Architect. Vivek is a problem solver who is driven by challenges. Vivek's technical expertise includes languages such as Core JAVA (Collections & Multithreading), Concurrency, Data Structures, and Algorithm, J2EE, and SQL. He is also proficient in frameworks such as Struts, Hibernate, Spring, Hazelcast distributed cache, ehcache, Apache Camel, Apache Active MQ, and Performance Frameworks like Locust, Gatling, JBender. Vivek has hands-on experience using monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic Search, Kibana, and Microservice Ecosystems like AWS (EC2, SQS, SNS, Lamda, S3, CDN), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, GraphQL, Spring Boot, Spring REST, Spring Cloud, RxJava, Guice, Governator, Hystrix, Asgard, Eureka, Ribbon, Feign, Zuul, Mongo DB, and Oauth2. In addition, Vivek has expertise in Web Technologies such as Java Servlets, JSP, Web Services, Jersey, XML, AJAX, Display tag API, and Servers like Apache Tomcat, Jetty, IBM WebSphere Application server. He has worked with databases like Oracle and MongoDB and used tools like IntelliJ, Eclipse, PL/SQL Developer/Golden, Git/SVN/ClearCase/VSS, JIRA, Maven, Ant, Mockito, Spock, JUnit, HPROF, TeamCity, Jenkins, and SonarQube. Currently, Vivek is working at Ciena, where he is involved in the development of Blue Planet MCP (Manage, Control and Plan) solution, which converges the complete network operations lifecycle through network planning, infrastructure commissioning, service fulfillment, and service assurance. He is working on micro-service based architecture, understanding requirements from Product Owners/Architects in areas of Packet Technologies, designing and implementing features for Blue Planet MCP solution, performance improvement, and optimization of the solution. Vivek is also responsible for ensuring the test automation for developed features and creating a knowledge base consisting of product microservices, NMS, Packet Technologies to enable the delivery and support team. He works closely