Senior Backend/Full-Stack Engineer with Java, Python, AWS

Rekha V

*****.*******@*****.*** 989-***-**** http://linkedin.com/in/yaramada-akshara/Los Angeles, USA

EXPERIENCE

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced Software Engineer with over 4 years of professional experience in software development and system architecture, specializing in building robust and scalable backend and full-stack systems. Proficient in Java and Python, with extensive experience in frameworks like Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Kafka, and skilled in designing and implementing RESTful APIs, microservices architectures, and distributed event-driven systems. Experienced in AWS cloud services, serverless automation, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra, optimizing real-time data processing, telemetry integration, and database performance to deliver high-performance, reliable, and maintainable software solutions.

Sony Interactive Entertainment California, USA

Full Stack Engineer Sept 2024 - Present

Developed APIs to integrate game telemetry and platform data from internal services and third-party sources, using Spring Boot and PostgreSQL.

Applied database optimizations to enhance query performance by 40%, ensuring real-time data access for analytics and game performance monitoring.

Implemented AWS serverless automation to handle real-time data updates, reducing manual processing by 10+ hours per week and improving data consistency.

Designed and implemented scalable RESTful services with Spring Boot, enabling secure ingestion of high-volume gameplay and telemetry datasets while maintaining data integrity across multiple sources.

Improved system reliability and observability by integrating structured logging, metrics, and monitoring on AWS, enabling faster issue detection and reducing data pipeline failures.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define data models, validation rules, and API contracts, ensuring accurate data representation and seamless integration with downstream analytics and reporting tools.

Central Michigan University Michigan, USA

Graduate Teaching Assistant Aug 2023 - May 2024

Supported courses on Supply Chain, Data Analytics and DBMS, guiding students through database design, normalization, indexing, and performance optimization techniques using MySQL and PostgreSQL to manage large datasets for operational analysis.

Assisted in teaching advanced data manipulation, security, ETL processes for analytical systems, helping students solve real-world supply chain optimization problems.

JPMorgan Chase & Co Hyderabad, India

Software Engineer Jan 2022 - July 2022

Built Deposit Risk applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Swagger to deliver RESTful APIs with an average response time of 180ms for 99% of requests, ensuring fast and reliable performance.

Redesigned 5 legacy monolith applications into scalable microservices using Spring Cloud, implementing circuit breakers and service discovery for improved fault tolerance, centralized request handling, and efficient database operations with MyBatis.

Reduced fraudulent transactions by 35% by orchestrating a Spring Boot-based workflow engine, integrating external APIs and machine learning models for real-time fraud risk analysis and optimized decision-making.

Improved code coverage by 80% and streamlined API testing using BlazeMeter, TestNG, and Cucumber for decision rule validation.

Implemented SLA-compliant remediation plans, reducing client impact during incidents by 50%, and managed bi-weekly production releases, resolving critical production issues through root-cause analysis.

Recognized in the Software Engineer Program at JPMC for exceptional contributions, earning accolades in Q2 2021, Q4 2022.

JPMorgan Chase & Co Hyderabad, India

Software Engineer. Associate Mar 2021 - Jan 2022

Designed and deployed a fault-tolerant distributed event processing system on AWS EC2, ensuring reliable data processing for 70K+ Kafka events daily, optimizing scalability and data integrity with Cassandra, while applying TDD and Agile for seamless deployments.

Streamlined data pipeline performance by automating schema filtering, improving processing speed by 67%. Used AWS Elastic Beanstalk for scaling, integrated CI/CD pipelines, and adhered to SDLC best practices for high availability and rapid releases.

Accenture Hyderabad, India

Software Engineer Jan 2020 - Nov 2020

Engineered a real-time voting system within a political poll platform, optimizing database queries to ensure that simultaneous votes from thousands of users could be processed without affecting performance, improving response times by 40%.

Implemented dynamic polling data aggregation logic using Spring Boot, enabling custom filtering and analytics for different political events, while ensuring real-time updates with Kafka and reducing message delivery latency by 30%.

PROJECTS

Learning Curve - E-Learning Platform

Built a cloud-native e-learning platform using React.js and Spring Boot on AWS (ECS, S3, CloudFront) for 10k+ users, with OAuth 2.0 and Redis for session management.

Implemented monitoring and logging with AWS CloudWatch and ELK for real-time tracking.

Bug Hound - Bug Tracking System

Developed a distributed bug tracker across 10+ projects, using Spring Boot and React.js, optimizing query response times by 30% with PostgreSQL indexing and caching.

Automated CI/CD with Jenkins and Canary deployments.

Community Volunteer Connect.

Engineered a scalable volunteer management system using React.js and Node.js with dynamic event tracking, real-time updates via WebSockets, and a credit-based reward system.

Optimized API performance with Redis, boosting volunteer participation by 60%.

SKILLS

Languages: Java, Python, C++, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, SQL, Bash

Databases & Data stores: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra, Redis, NoSQL, Hadoop, Relational Databases

Frameworks:

Frontend: React JS

Backend: Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate, Elastic Search, Apache Kafka

Testing Tools: JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, TestNG

Others: AWS (S3, EC2, Glue, RDS), Kubernetes, Docker, GraphQL, CI/CD, Jenkins, JMeter, BlazeMeter, UNIX/Linux, Git, Agile, Postman, Splunk, Sonar, Maven, Windows, PowerShell, SDLC, System Design

EDUCATION

M.S Information Technology Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, US GPA: 3.8/4.0 Aug 2022 -May 2024

B-Tech Computer Science Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India GPA: 3.8/4.0 Aug 2016 -July 2020

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