Java Backend and DevOps/AI Platform Engineer

Building Robust
Scalable Platforms

Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience across Java backend, cloud-native DevOps, observability, and emerging AI platform engineering.

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Career

WORK EXPERIENCE

Associate Staff Engineer - Nagarro

Pune/Remote · Jul 2021 - Present · App & AI Platform Engineering, CRM

  • Augmented MCP to retrieve proprietary documentation deployed on private mkdocs websites.
  • Implemented cloud native, reactive and multi-tenant point-of-sale services with Quarkus for automated batch management.
  • Produced production-grade observability, security, database and Kafka starter libraries with SBOM; built OpenAPI and AsyncAPI/AVRO plugins used by 100+ microservices.
  • Designed loosely coupled event-driven systems with Spring Boot, Quarkus Native, Apache Kafka, and Debezium CDC; owned enterprise notification service integrations with Kafka connectors.
  • Reduced Docker image size by 58% and security vulnerabilities by 43%; reduced checkstyle and other CI check runtimes by 80% and 33%.
  • Prepared AI agents and MCP servers with Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker and Claude for Spring Boot 3 to Quarkus 3 native migration, delivering 150%+ throughput improvement or 50% lower resource consumption and 86% smaller images.
  • Provisioned infrastructure with AWS CDK, Bash CI/CD automation, Helm Charts and ChartMuseum; monitored and troubleshot systems with Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Tempo and Prometheus.
  • Supported monolith to microservice migration, e-commerce platform revamp, CRM gateway GraphQL request processing, and Salesforce, Exponea and LeadSquared integrations.

Software Development Engineer - Verifone India Pvt. Ltd.

Bangalore · Mar 2019 - Jun 2021 · Microservices Orchestrator and Payment Processors

  • Created flexible microservices workflow definitions for multiple markets using Spring Beans, Spring Async, and Spring Retry.
  • Translated JSON from Terminal/POS payment devices into acquirer-specific HEX requests and responses back to JSON using Java and SOLID design principles.
  • Integrated FOREX rate processing provider over HTTP with REST and JSON.
  • Spearheaded code development, Bitbucket repository administration, Jenkins jobs, and critical payment domain deliveries for internal stakeholders and international clients.
  • Achieved 90% execution time reduction through custom Java Microbenchmarking Harness benchmarking.

Expertise

SKILLS

LANGUAGES / FRAMEWORKS / LIBRARIES

Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring WebFlux, Reactive Mono/Flux, Mutiny Uni/Multi, WebClient, RestTemplate, Feign Client, AOP, Quarkus native, JWT/OAuth2, MapStruct, Jackson, Gson, Lombok, Log4j/Slf4j, Micrometer, OpenTelemetry, Bash, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, Python, NodeJS, ReactJS

ARCHITECTURE

Microservices Architecture, Event-Driven Architecture, Distributed Systems, REST APIs, API-first, Design Patterns, SOLID Principles, distributed observability with centralized logging and tracing

MESSAGING AND STREAMING

Apache Kafka producers, consumers, streams, connectors, and Debezium CDC

PERSISTENCE, SEARCH AND CACHING

JPA/Hibernate, Panache, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle SQL, Aurora DB, MongoDB, Redis/Valkey Cache, Flyway

DEVOPS AND CLOUD

GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm Charts, KEDA, AWS EKS/ECR/S3/RDS/CodePipeline/CodeBuild/Secrets Manager/CDK, Jenkins, GCP GKE/Compute Engine, GHAS

TOOLS AND PLATFORMS

IntelliJ IDEA, VS Code, STS, Git, Maven, Gradle, SonarQube, Postman, DBeaver, pgAdmin, Jira, ServiceNow, GraalVM, ArgoCD, Prisma Cloud Compute, Istio, Terraform, Backstage

OBSERVABILITY AND PERFORMANCE

Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace, Kibana, VictorOps, distributed tracing, JMeter, profiling and performance tuning

AI-ASSISTED DEVELOPMENT

Prompt Engineering, AI-driven code migration, developer automation, ChatGPT, Claude, GitHub Copilot, Amazon Bedrock

TESTING AND DOCUMENTATION

JUnit, Mockito, Swagger UI/OpenAPI, K6 performance testing, Microcks contract testing, mkdocs, Confluence, MKDocs

DATA, DOMAIN AND HOMELAB

JSON, YAML, XML, AVRO, OpenAPI Specification, Markdown, HTML, fintech financial systems, e-commerce, retail, HomeAssistant, Proxmox, LLM, Ollama, Gradio, ComfyUI, n8n

Portfolio

PROJECTS

PG-DAC, ACTS Pune - Student Faculty Web App

Implemented a web application for student-faculty interaction within a month during PG-DAC at CDAC ACTS Pune.

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AndroAddyct - Android App Development

Managed the application lifecycle for an Android app as a freelancer, reaching about 900 active user devices across 175 countries and regions.

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Academics

EDUCATION

PG-DAC - CDAC ACTS, Pune, MH

79.25%

B.E. - MIET (RTMNU), Gondia, MH

78.80%

Recognition

AWARDS & CERTIFICATIONS