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Backend engineer with 5 years building Java and Python services at scale. I care about clean code, good tests and systems that stay up; comfortable across AWS, Docker and React when a feature needs it.
Experience
Software Engineer II, Tailspin Payments01/2022 – Present
Hyderabad
Built a payments API in Spring Boot handling 2 million requests a day at 99.95% uptime
Cut average API response time from 800 ms to 180 ms with caching and query tuning
Led the migration from a monolith to 6 services without downtime
Mentored 4 junior engineers through their first production releases
Software Engineer, Litware Labs07/2019 – 12/2021
Chennai
Moved 12 services to Docker and AWS ECS, reducing hosting cost by 30%
Raised test coverage from 40% to 85%, halving production bugs in two quarters
Built CI/CD with GitHub Actions, taking releases from weekly to daily
Education
Coastal Institute of Technology2015 – 2019
BTech, Computer Science
Skills
Java, Python, Spring Boot, React, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, Kafka, Git, Unit testing
Languages
English (Full professional), Telugu (Native / bilingual), Hindi (Full professional)
Summary examples
Backend engineer with 5 years building Java and Python services that handle millions of requests a day. I care about clean code, tests and systems that stay up.
Full-stack engineer (React, Node.js, PostgreSQL) who ships features end to end and has cut page load times by 40%.
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Swap in your own numbers. A line with a result (a number, a before and after) beats a list of duties.
Built a payments API in Spring Boot handling 2 million requests a day at 99.95% uptime
Cut average API response time from 800 ms to 180 ms with caching and query tuning
Moved 12 services to Docker and AWS ECS, reducing hosting cost by 30%
Raised test coverage from 40% to 85%, halving production bugs in two quarters
Designed an event-driven order pipeline with Kafka processing 50,000 events a minute
Led the migration from a monolith to 6 services without downtime
Shipped a React checkout redesign that lifted completed orders by 9%
Reviewed 300+ pull requests and wrote the team's code review guide
Built CI/CD with GitHub Actions, taking releases from weekly to daily
Fixed a memory leak that had caused 3 outages a month
Mentored 4 junior engineers through their first production releases
Wrote internal libraries for logging and retries used by 15 teams
Reduced database load by 60% by adding read replicas and indexes
Built an admin tool that saved the support team 25 hours a week
On-call lead for 2 years; cut mean time to recovery from 2 hours to 25 minutes
