Vinayak Sh

Senior IBM Sterling B2B Integrator professional with over 7+ years of IT experience, including 6+ years of hands-on expertise in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator. Proven experience in application installation, upgrades, patching, monitoring, and BPML/business process development for onboarding new trading partners and highly skilled in configuring and managing secure file transfers using SFTP, AS2, HTTP, and FTP protocols, along with end-to-end security management, including SSL, AS2, and SSH certificate lifecycle management and vulnerability remediation. Demonstrated ability in designing and optimizing business processes, troubleshooting EDI and integration failures using ITX, and managing production environments to ensure high system availability and reliability.

Strong collaborator with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver solutions within strict SLA commitments. Additionally, brings 1 year of experience in Basic Java and PL/SQL development, supporting integration logic and backend enhancements.

Sterling Application administrator - Capgemini - Bangalore, India

(2025-06)

Organization: Capgemini, Bangalore.

Client: Synchrony Financial.

Tool: Sterling integrator, Sterling Secure Proxy, IBM Global mailbox and IBM Control Centre.

Domain: Financial Domain.

Role: Sterling Integrator Developer, Application administrator. As a Sterling Platform team member, assigned the responsibility of Sterling B2B Integrator application installation, upgrade, patching, monitoring, BPML/business process development for new Partner onboard, Process automation and performance optimization and new creating Adapter and service configuration as per business requirement. Role is vital to the success of the project, and responsible for Security management like SSL/AS2/SSH certificate lifecycle, vulnerability remediation, compliance audits and wide range of activities including:

• Performed application upgrades, patch deployments, application tunning and environment refreshes, aligning with enterprise release schedules.
• Administered Sterling B2B Integrator platform across non‑production and production environments, ensuring stability and performance.
• Monitored and debugged Sterling applications, proactively identifying issues and implementing fixes to maintain operational efficiency.
• Configured new partners and maintained services, adapters, routing channels, and partner profiles based on evolving business requirements.
• Designed and implemented robust BPML processes to automate secure file transfers across internal and external partners using HTTP, SFTP, FTP, FTPS.
• Conducted vulnerability assessments and remediation, collaborating with InfoSec teams to ensure compliance with security standards.
• Automated routine administrative tasks (log monitoring, alerting, certificate checks) to improve efficiency and reduce manual workload.
• Supported business process development and optimization, ensuring integrations met partner SLAs and compliance requirements.
• Implemented automation scripts for log monitoring, alerting and Application monitoring reducing manual intervention and improving response times.
• Participated in disaster recovery planning and failover testing with network team to ensuring business continuity during outages.
• Provided non-prod environment monitoring and support, enabling smooth testing cycles and early issue detection.
• Documented platform changes, created runbooks, and trained junior team members to strengthen operational readiness.

Application Developer - IBM - Hyderabad, India

(2022-09 - 2025-06)

Organization: IBM India Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad.

Client: ConvaTec -- HealthCare Domain.

Tool: Sterling integrator, IBM Secure Proxy, IBM Control Centre, IBM transformation extender.

Role: Sterling Integrator Developer, Application developer. As a middleware developer, assigned the responsibility of developing integrations for the Sterling B2B Integrator to transfer files between internal and external partners using BPML processes/scripts and industry-standard protocols such as HTTP, SFTP, AS2 and more. Role was vital to the success of the project, and responsible for a wide range of activities and EDI file failure monitoring (Flat File, X12 and EDIFACT), including:

• Designed and implemented robust BPML processes to automate secure file transfers across internal and external partners using HTTP, SFTP, FTP, FTPS, and AS2 protocols and creating new custom templates, services, and adapters tailored to partner requirements, improving integration efficiency.
• Successfully onboarded new trading partners in GIS/SI, driving requirements gathering, business process design, and seamless partner integration.
• Proactively monitored and resolved EDI failures (X12, EDIFACT, Flat Files) using IBM ITX, ensuring SLA compliance and minimizing business disruption.
• Executed Sterling upgrade and patching activities, configuring services, adapters, and routing channels to align with evolving business needs.
• Configured and maintained AS2 partner profiles, SSH keys, and SSL certificates, for secure inbound/outbound transmissions.
• Led certificate lifecycle management (renewals, key rotation, truststore/keystore updates) to maintain uninterrupted secure communications.
• Conducted unit, functional, and integration testing, validating end‑to‑end workflows and ensuring system reliability.
• Monitored and debugged Sterling applications, identifying root causes and implementing long‑term fixes to enhance operational stability.
• Delivered rapid resolution of priority incidents, balancing hands‑on troubleshooting with effective task delegation.
• Prioritized support issues and delegated work to team members.
• Providing Production support activities including system monitoring, server patching, debugging, and issue resolution, ensuring high availability.
• Coordinated with cross‑functional teams (network, security, application owners) to resolve complex integration issues.
• Created GIS users and assigned limited permissions based on their roles.

Sterling B2B integrator Developer - Tata Consultancy Services - India

(2019-11 - 2022-09)

Client: Allianz-Life (Insurance Domain). Tool: Sterling integrator, Sterling Secure Proxy, IBM Control Centre. Role: Sterling Integrator Developer. Duration: Oct 2019 – Sep 2022. Managed File Transfer is a project, Developing Sterling b2b integrator maps to transferring files between internal and external partners using BPML process/scripts and protocols (HTTP, SFTP).

• Developed and configured business processes, integration set-up using BPML and different protocols.
• Created and onboarded new trading partners and conducted UAT integration testing.
• Implemented SFTP/FTP/AS2 configurations, partner setup, and file routing.
• Implemented system performance tuning, Certificate/Key management, protocol configuration and database cleanup strategies.
• Worked on Sterling Control centre for implementation which involves Simple SLCs, Workflow SLCs, Rules and action setup to monitor Processes, File transfer.
• Modified the performance tuning properties and Configured Services & Adapters based on the business requirements.
• Handled support, issue resolution, and documentation for process updates.
• Provided production support activities: monitoring, debugging and resolving the problems and resolving the Priority tickets within specified time.
• Involved in Patching activities, Application upgrade and application restart activities.

PL/SQL Developer - TATA Consultancy Services - India

(2019-01 - 2019-11)

Client: CREDIT SUISSE -- Investment banking (credit risk). Tool: SQL Developer, PL/SQL Developer. Database: Oracle 11g/12c. CRAT (Credit Risk Architectural Transformation) is a migration project, migrating all the objects from Sybase to oracle database. It aimed to convert tables, views, procedures, triggers and functions from Sybase database to oracle database.

• Converted complex functions, procedures and triggers from Sybase to oracle database.
• Created the new tables, Indexes, and Views and worked on Stored Procedures, Functions and Packages and checking the constraints in oracle database.
• Project Implementations includes UAT and Production Support.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills with excellent understanding of system development methodologies, techniques and tools.

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Smt. Kamala and Sri Venkappa M Agadi college of Engineering and Technology (2014 - 2018)