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PANCHAVATI KIRAN

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Around 2 years of experience in Splunk as Splunk Developer

• Strong experience with 6.x product, distributed Splunk architecture and components including search
heads, indexes and forwarders
• Experience in customizing Splunk for monitoring, Application Management and security per customer
requirements and industry best practice
• Experience in installing and configuring Splunk forwarders on Linux, Unix and Windows
• Data collection from various systems/servers,Forwarder Management, Creating and Managing splunk
apps.
• Building splunk queries by Search Processing Language (SPL) and regular expressions.
• Created a drilldown of navigations from one splunk app to other app.
• Configured alerts on various thresholds,SLA’s.
• Knowledge on Configuration files in Splunk (props.conf, Transforms.conf, Output.conf, Input.conf) •
Create and maintain reports and alerts.
• Good Experience in Ticketing tools (Service-now, BMC remedy )
• Build, customize and deploy Splunk apps as per internal customers
• Experience in creating complex queries, alerts, reports and dashboards
• Experience in setting up HF for all Splunk components, Index clustering and Search heads
• Develop Splunk based Dashboards, Reports and Alerts catering to the needs of Application Support
teams.
• Evaluate processes and requirements to determine the best Splunk-based dashboard for tracking and
reporting.
• Knowledge about Splunk architecture and various components indexer forwarder search head
deployment server Heavy and Universal Forwarder License model.
• Analysis, Design and Development of SPLUNK Queries to generate the Report and running SPL Queries.
• Experience in Clustering of indexers and search heads.
• Having exposure towards Incident Management.

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 • Worked on RAID logs Management.
• Producing project related documents and day to day reporting.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Office, Word, Power Point, MS Project.
• Good time management skills with ability to prioritize the things.
• Excellent communication, presentation, project management skills, a very good team player and
selfstarter with ability to work independently and as part of a team.

EDUCATION PROFILE
• B-tech in the year 2016 from Sri Kalahasteeswara Institute Of Technology, Srikalahasthi, AP..

CERTIFICATIONS
• ITIL V3 foundations
• Information Storage Management V3

TECHNICAL SKILLS
BI Tools : Splunk
Operating systems : Windows,Linux,Unix

EXPERIENCE:

Working as a Splunk Developer and Admin in Dell EMC from September 2017 to till date.

1) Project Details :

Project Name: Weston Foods

Role Splunk Developer

Organization DellEMC

Duration September 2017- January 2018

Splunk
Environment Tools
6.x

Project Description: Providing global delivery and transformation leadership for a number of Telstra security capabilities
to APAC, EMEA / EMRG, Americas business including vulnerability scanning, workflow management, Data Loss Prevention.
Supporting over all 1000+ servers and users

Roles & Responsibilities :

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 • Preparing and testing Splunk search strings (SPL queries) and operational strings.
• Creating and configuring reports, alerts and dashboards.
• Providing Scheduled reports, Adhoc reports on daily/weekly/monthly basis as per Customer’s requirements.
• Creating dynamic dashboards using XML and Advance searching and reporting.
• Implemented various visualization Add-ons to the developed dashboards.
• Knowledge of various search commands like stats, chart, timechart, transaction, strptime, strftime, eval,
where, xyseries, table etc.
• Creating dashboards, reports using XML. - Create dashboard from search. - Inline search vs scheduled search
in a dashboard
• Develop Splunk based Dashboards, Reports and Alerts catering to the needs of Application Support teams
• Various types of charts - Knowledge of app creation, user and role access permissions.
• Creating Regex for extracting fields from the logs, as per requirement.
• Installing and configuring the universal forwarders in different server.
• Creating HEC tokens to send data directly to indexers, without involving installation of Splunk Forwarder
package on the server.
• Working with configuration files like inputs.conf, props.conf, transforms.conf, etc .To Make required changes
to the data being indexed and getting data into Splunk.
• Configuring the Splunk app in Splunk Enterprise.
• Developed dashboards ,data models ,reports and optimize the performances
• Creating and managing app - Create user, role
• Permissions to knowledge objects Optimize searches.
• Use techniques to optimize searches for better performance.

1) Project Details

Project Name: Telstra

Role Splunk Developer

Organization Dell EMC

Duration January 2019 – To till date

Environment Tools Splunk 6.x

a) Roles & Responsibilities

• Splunk implementation, planning, customization, integration with Application servers.

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 • Administer Splunk as well as create, test and deploying operational search strings.
• On boarded new data into a multi-tiered Splunk environment.
• Good knowledge of Splunk search processing language (SPL), reporting, dashboards, and search
acceleration techniques
• Develop Splunk use cases and proliferate Splunk usage across the enterprise
• Ability to work independently, take ownership on assigned tasks and deliver on time
• Design and customize complex search queries, promote advanced searching, Develop dashboards, data
models, reports and optimize their performance.
• Experience in creating lookups, field Aliases, calculated fields, field extractor, Tags and event types,
workflow actions, Alerts and scheduled reports.
• Create and optimize Alerting, Reporting and advanced dashboards
• Provide regular support guidance to Splunk project teams on complex solution and issue resolution.
• Install Splunk forwarders, indexers and Search heads on various platforms like windows, Linux, Unix •
Created several different dashboards for multiple different teams and clusters
• Splunk dashboard creation and advanced searching and reporting.
• Experience in implementing data retention policies and creating various Splunk roles and groups •
Experience in Clustering of indexers and search heads.
• Standardize Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance in Linux and windows
platforms • Assist internal customers for creating and maintaining quality dashboards, alerts and reports
• Created Splunk applications and deploy using Splunk Deployment Server.
• Created Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) queries, Reports, Alerts and Dashboards.
• Configured and deployed applications in various work environments like Development, System Test, QA
and Production.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT & RECOGNISED ACHIEVEMENTS

• Awarded Cause for Applause for giving best efforts to DELL EMC and good customer satisfaction.
• Won First prize in carom completion in DELL EMC MS.
• Got Appreciations from Customers and ON-SHORE Team.

DETAILS
Current Address: #39 Sri Vinayaka Luxury PG, Bangalore-560037
Mobile: +91 9491311250
Date of Birth: 07th July, 1995
Nationality: Indian
Email: kiranpsplunk@gmail.com

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