Senior Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems & AWS Expert

SAI LEELA KURAGAYALA

Los Angeles, CA 551-***-**** ******************@*****.*** LinkedIn Portfolio Summary

Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience building distributed systems and backend services using Java, Python, and AWS. Skilled in scalable architecture and performance optimization, with systems supporting 50,000+ automated workflows. Looking forward to crafting seamless, high-performance user experiences at global scale. Open to relocation. Professional Experience

Software Development Engineer, DBS Bank Ltd. Aug 2022 – Jun 2023 Murex Test Environment Platform Project.

• Designed and built scalable Python-based feature for a multi-tiered test automation platform orchestrating 50,000+ distributed workflows with real-time monitoring, improving QA reliability and traceability across teams.

• Engineered distributed indexing and traceability systems to improve search result accuracy, enable real time failure diagnostics, and reduce debugging latency by 35% in production environments.

• Implemented scalable Redis caching layers that lowered PostgreSQL query loads by 60%, enhancing system performance for real-time customer-facing analytics at high traffic loads.

• Mentored junior engineers on Agile and Scrum principles, leading to the creation of well-formatted user stories and acceptance criteria, communicated across teams to reduce story creation inconsistencies by 30%. Associate Software Engineer, Ericsson Inc. Mar 2022 – Aug 2022

• Redesigned internal dashboards with React and JavaScript, CSS, enhancing mobile responsiveness, improving usability, and incorporating Accessibility features, leading to increased user engagement from customers.

• Refactored legacy monoliths into modular, scalable microservices, improving maintainability and reducing feature development cycle time by 20%.

• Integrated Jest and Cypress into CI/CD pipelines, increasing automated test coverage by 40% and reducing pre- deployment regression bugs by 25%.

Software Engineering, Cybrowse Digital Solutions Pvt Ltd Jan 2020 – Feb 2022

• Developed and maintained backend services using Java and Spring Boot, ensuring scalable and reliable performance in production systems.

• Built RESTful APIs for client-facing dashboards, enabling seamless data exchange and improving UX responsiveness.

• Contributed to microservice migration, implemented CI/CD pipelines with Git and Jenkins, and automated releases to reduce errors and boost deployment efficiency. Software Engineering Intern, Creatik Solutions. Nov 2018 – May 2019

• Built modular UI components based on stakeholder input, ensuring consistency across multi-cloud dashboards.

• Enhanced frontend performance using lazy loading, code minification, and feature toggles, reduced bounce rate by 22% and improved mobile page speed.

Education

Master of Science: Information Systems Jan 2024 - May 2025 New Jersey Institute of Technology. (GPA: 3.65) Newark, NJ Skills

• Programming Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, C++.

• Backend & Web Frameworks: Django, Flask, React.js, Angular, Node.js, Tailwind CSS, HTML5, CSS3

• Distributed Systems & Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLite, SQL, Redis, REST APIs, Microservices, Scalable Architecture.

• Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD Pipelines, Serverless Computing

• Collaboration & Agile: Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence, Scrum, Agile Development.

• System Design & Patterns: MVC, MVVM, Object-Oriented Design, Component-Based Architecture. Projects

StockSentiment – AI-powered Flask-based Stock Analysis Web App Github Flask, yfinance, NewsAPI, VADER, Plotly, OpenRouter (LLM)

• Designed and deployed a Python-based full-stack application to extract, process, and visualize financial data from real-time and historic sources to help users analyze stock trends based on market sentiment.

• Developed sentiment analysis pipelines using NLP on 50,000+ news articles to generate directional stock forecasts with 60% accuracy.

Achievements

• Development Bank of Singapore Hackathon winner: Secured 1st place in a competitive hackathon on web application development by Development Bank of Singapore.

• Super Techie Award: Recognized for exceptional contributions to the Murex Testing Environment Platform.

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