SUMMARY
Niveditha Parameshwarappa
Senior / Technical Consultant
• **************@*****.*** • +1-930-***-**** • LinkedIn • GitHub • Portfolio • Open to Relocate Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience in building scalable backend systems, secure APIs, and full-stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, React, and Angular. Skilled in database optimization (PostgreSQL, MySQL), cloud deployments on AWS with Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD automation. Recent work includes integrating LLMs and AI-driven services (NLP, RAG pipelines) to deliver intelligent, data-driven solutions at scale. SKILLS
Backend & Programming Frameworks: Java 17, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Node.js, Express.js, Python, Microservices, GraphQL Frontend Development: React.js, Next.js, Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind CSS, Material UI, Responsive Web Design Databases & Data Management: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, ETL Pipelines, Caching Strategies (Redis, Memcached) Cloud & DevOps: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway, CloudWatch), Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible Testing & Quality Assurance: JUnit, Mockito, Jest, Mocha, Cypress, Selenium, Postman, Load & Performance Testing, Automated Test Frameworks Security & API Management: Spring Security, OAuth2, JWT, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Swagger/OpenAPI, HIPAA/GDPR Compliance AI & LLMs: LLM Integration (OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain), NLP, RAG Pipelines, Sentiment Analysis, Prompt Engineering Collaboration & Agile Practices: Agile (Scrum/Kanban), Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Documentation & Knowledge Sharing, Code Reviews, Branching & Merging Strategies, Git (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket) PROFESSIONALEXPERIENCE
Heartland Community Network (Contract) May 2025 – Present Bloomington, IN Senior Consultant
Architected a community-driven food blogging and engagement platform using Java 17, Spring Boot, and React.js, enabling underserved populations to share digital content and access resources, scaling to 8,500+ monthly users across multiple states.
Developed RESTful APIs in Spring Boot and integrated them with a React Native mobile app, powering features like recipe sharing, event registration, and donations, securely processing 1.2M API calls per month.
Streamlined Google OAuth 2.0 with a Redis-based session fallback, ensuring seamless authentication and supporting over 25,000 active user logins without downtime or data loss.
Optimized MongoDB schemas and aggregation pipelines, improving query response times for analytics dashboards from 3 seconds to under 800ms, enabling faster insights on content engagement and user activity.
Integrated GPT-3 powered transformer models into the platform to enable personalized recipe recommendations, automated content moderation, and community Q&A assistance, enhancing user engagement and reducing manual review efforts by 40%. StatusNeo Jan 2023 – Aug 2023 India
Backend Developer Consultant
Engineered a low-latency event-driven pipeline using WebSocket and Kafka, processing 10K+ stock market requests per second with <100ms response time, ensuring real-time financial data delivery to traders.
Boosted high-frequency data ingestion by rewriting C++ parsers and integrating ETL jobs in Node.js/Java, reducing daily processing time from 2 hours to 30 minutes and improving throughput on 3GB+ stock feeds.
Embedded NLP-driven sentiment analysis (BERT) and real-time trend detection using Elasticsearch & MongoDB, boosting trading signal accuracy and enabling faster decision-making across 50+ financial instruments.
Improved system scalability by implementing Redis caching and reindexing Elasticsearch clusters with custom routing, reducing query latency by 60% and increasing cluster throughput to handle 1M+ daily queries. Temenos AG Jul 2018 – Jan 2023 Oman, Egypt
Technical Consultant
Redesigned and modernized legacy banking modules into microservices using Java 17, Spring Boot, and Hibernate, enabling real-time processing of around 500,000 financial transactions per day across multiple client applications.
Established and deployed a React.js and Material UI dashboard integrated with backend APIs, allowing more than 1,200 banking staff to monitor live account activities and customer service requests with improved visibility.
Strengthened and tuned Oracle and PostgreSQL queries with advanced indexing, partitioning, and Hibernate caching strategies, reducing high-value transaction execution time from 350ms to nearly 40ms, supporting smoother operations.
Implemented secure authentication using Spring Security, OAuth2, and JWT, safeguarding sensitive banking data across 20 client-facing portals while meeting industry-grade compliance and audit requirements.
Centralized large-scale account migrations by designing Spring Batch ETL jobs with multi-threaded execution, migrating nearly 2 million records while reducing data transfer time from 5 hours to less than 1.5 hours.
Containerized backend services using Docker and managed orchestration with Kubernetes on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3), ensuring uptime during peak hours of 2,500 concurrent users without performance degradation.
Established CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, integrating unit, integration, and UI testing (JUnit, Mockito, Selenium), which enabled three stable production releases weekly with near-zero rollback cases.
Configured monitoring and logging with Grafana, Prometheus, and ELK stack, which identified recurring performance issues and reduced incident resolution time by more than 25 hours per month.
PROJECTS
AI Agent as Backend Runner Up at ServiceNow case study in Luddy Hackathon 2024. GitHub Link
Built an AI-powered backend agent using LLMs (Ollama, LangChain, LlamaIndex, BERT) to process natural language commands, with a Gradio UI enabling seamless and interactive user engagement.
Designed REST APIs for MongoDB CRUD operations, handling 5,000+ requests daily and improving backend response time by ~1.2 seconds, ensuring scalable and reliable data management.
CERTIFICATION & ACHIEVEMENTS
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Amazon Web Services (AWS) — Google Cloud- Introduction to Generative AI
2x GEM (Going Extra Mile) Award (Q2 2020, Q2 2022) : TEMENOS Global — Best Employee Award : StatusNeo EDUCATION
Master of Science in Computer Science May 2025
Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Teaching Assistant – Taught Applied Algorithms and Data Structures to students, supporting concept clarity and problem-solving.
Research Assistant – Conducted research, data analysis, and contributed to academic projects.
Graduate Ambassador – Represented the university at events, guided new students, and supported campus activities. Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science May 2018 National Institute of Engineering, Mysuru, India