Aditya Thakur | Backend & Platform Engineer

Work Experience

Associate Staff Engineer – Nagarro

Remote | Jul 2021 – Present

Built multi-tenant microservice frameworks and reusable starter libraries used by 100+ production services.
Designed event-driven systems using Spring Boot, Quarkus (Native), Kafka and Debezium.
Reduced Docker image size by 58% and security vulnerabilities by 43%.
Achieved 150%+ throughput improvement by migrating Spring Boot to Quarkus Native (AI-assisted modernization).
Provisioned AWS infrastructure using CDK and deployed via Helm on EKS.
Implemented observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk and Dynatrace.

Software Development Engineer – Verifone

Bangalore | Mar 2019 – Jun 2021

Developed payment microservices orchestrator using Spring Boot.
Built flexible workflow engine for multi-market payment processing.
Achieved 90% execution time reduction via benchmarking and optimization.
Integrated FOREX providers and managed CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Backend

Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, WebFlux, Quarkus, JWT/OAuth2, Kafka, Debezium

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (EKS, ECR, RDS, CDK), Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform

Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry

Databases

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora, MongoDB, Redis

AI & Automation

LLM Engineering, RAG, Amazon Bedrock, Prompt Engineering, AI-assisted migration

Testing & Quality

JUnit, Mockito, K6, JMeter, Microcks, SonarQube

Projects

Quarkus – Micrometer HTTP Client Connection Metrics

Contributed enhancement to Quarkus Micrometer extension to expose HTTP client connection-level metrics. Improved observability by enabling detailed connection pool monitoring, aiding performance tuning and production troubleshooting in cloud-native environments.

JavaQuarkusMicrometerObservabilityHTTP Client

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Flagd – Security & Dependency Upgrades

Contributed security and dependency upgrades to Flagd, addressing vulnerability risks and improving supply-chain hygiene. Ensured compatibility with updated libraries and strengthened runtime security posture.

GoSecurityDependency ManagementOpenFeatureDevSecOps

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Education

PG-DAC – CDAC ACTS, Pune

79.25%

B.E. – MIET (RTMNU), Gondia

78.80%

Awards & Certifications

Engineering Excellence Award – Nagarro (2025)
LLM & Generative AI Engineering Certifications (Udemy)
Kubernetes & AWS Certifications (KodeKloud)
Extraordinary Role Model Recognition