Software Engineer Stack Developer

Akhila Kamalakar Bakwad

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TECHNICAL SKILS

• Languages: Java, C, C++, Python, HTML/CSS, Angular, MySQL, Oracle DB

• Technologies/Framework: AWS Services, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, JPA, Hibernate, Docker, Postman, Maven, Splunk, Swagger, Linux, Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket, JUnit/Mockito, Agile, Kanban.

• Developer Tools: IntelliJ, VS Code, Eclipse, PyCharm

• APIs and Protocols: OAuth, GraphQL, JSON, Swagger CERTIFICATIONS

• AWS Certified cloud practitioner – Amazon (Credentials)

• Udemy Java Certification Associate IZ0-808 Course (Credentials) WORK EXPERIENCE

Graduate Teaching Assistant (Software Engineer) Jan 2024 – Present Texas A&M University Commerce Commerce, TX

• Engineered scalable systems using Java and the Spring Boot framework, delivering robust, high-performance solutions that improved system efficiency and reduced infrastructure costs by $15,000 annually.

• Mentored over 250 students on data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems fundamentals, fostering strong technical foundations and driving a improvement in academic performance.

• Documented system designs, API specifications, and deployment procedures, improving team knowledge sharing and accelerating new team member onboarding.

Software Engineer (Analyst) May 2022 – Aug 2023

Morgan Stanley Capital International Pune, India

• Developed and optimized a distributed microservices architecture using Spring Cloud (Eureka, API Gateway, Config Server) to improve scalability and resilience of applications.

• Built dynamic Single Page Applications (SPAs) using Angular, enhancing user experience and boosting application performance.

• Designed and developed efficient APIs using GraphQL, enabling flexible data retrieval, reducing network overhead, and improving client-server communication.

• Optimized data storage and retrieval by leveraging Spring Data JPA with MySQL, implementing query optimizations and indexing strategies, resulting in a 30% improvement in complex query performance.

• Implemented monitoring and alerting solutions using Prometheus and Grafana, enabling real-time system performance tracking, visualization of key metrics, and proactive issue resolution.

• Integrated secure authentication and authorization using OAuth 2.0 and JWT with Spring Security, ensuring robust API endpoint protection.

• Deployed and managed containerized applications using Docker and Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Services), delivering a scalable, reliable, and automated microservices deployment architecture.

• Developed a distributed tracing service to identify software issues, reducing debugging time by 40% and simplifying root cause analysis for developers.

• Implemented centralized logging and monitoring using the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) alongside Prometheus, ensuring real-time system visibility and faster issue detection.

• Integrated messaging and event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka for high-throughput data streaming, and leveraged AWS SNS and SQS for decoupled, reliable message delivery across distributed microservices. Software Engineer May 2019 – Apr 2022

Bank of America Mumbai, India

• Developed scalable Java/J2EE solutions based on Agile user stories and acceptance criteria, contributing to the successful delivery of new features with high quality and reliability.

• Built scalable microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Data, and Spring Security, ensuring secure API access and efficient data management.

• Designed intuitive front-end interfaces using HTML, CSS, and Angular, improving the user experience and visualizing system replication status effectively.

• Developed and optimized data access layers with Hibernate and JPA, ensuring efficient database interactions and seamless integration with relational databases.

• Established a comprehensive testing framework using JUnit and SonarQube, improving code quality and ensuring robust application stability.

• Conducted code reviews and thorough testing, promoting adherence to coding standards, best practices, and system reliability.

• Streamlined deployments by utilizing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Docker, integrating SonarQube for continuous code quality analysis.

• Optimized database performance by fine-tuning complex SQL queries, improving application responsiveness and operational efficiency.

• Served as an on-call engineer, resolving critical system issues promptly and maintaining high system availability and operational stability.

PROJECT

Healthcare Chatbot

Developed a healthcare chatbot that extracts data from PDF documents and answers medical queries using retrieval-based QA system. Leveraged Llama 2 for language understanding, LangChain for embedding and retrieval, Pinecone for vector storage, and Python for implementation. Link

E-commerce Platform

Developed an open-source e-commerce platform using Java, Spring Boot, and React for the front-end. Features include shopping cart, product catalog, search, checkout, and administration, built with a REST API for seamless integration. The project is designed with microservices architecture. Link EDUCATION

Texas A & M University Commerce Master of Science, Computer Science Aug 2023 – May 2025 Government College of Engineering Aurangabad Bachelor of Technology, Computer science Aug 2014 – June 2018

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