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Bala K

Dallas,TX

Summary

Full-stack software engineer with 6+ years of experience in microservices and web application development, contributing to projects in e-commerce (communication systems), financial services, and technology consulting. Skilled in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, Java, and AWS, leveraging Spring Boot, Docker, and Kubernetes for efficiency and functionality. Experienced in all phases of the SDLC life cycle, seeking to utilize my expertise in software architecture to deliver impactful solutions and optimize operations

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Fidelity Investments
01.2023 - Current
  • Participated in the SDLC phases for the Webstation Plan Design Tool, including requirement gathering and design, following Agile methodology, leading to 20% faster project completion.
  • Converted legacy ASP.NET screens to Angular using GenAI tools, ensuring modern UI standards and reducing development time by 40%.
  • Developed RESTful Web Services with Java 8 and Spring Boot, using Swagger UI for documentation, and handled real-time data processing with Kafka, reducing latency by 25%.
  • Wrote complex SQL and PL/SQL queries using Oracle and SQL Server, improving query performance by 30%.
  • Designed application architecture using Microservices with Spring Boot, achieving better scalability and modularity.
  • Built and enhanced Angular UI components, designed responsive front-end pages with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, JSX, and Bootstrap, reducing load times by 20%, and maintained application state using Redux.
  • Developed unit tests with JUnit5 and Mockito, achieving 90% test coverage and reducing bugs by 30%, integrated Log4j for efficient logging.
  • Deployed applications using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and utilized Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and deployment, reducing failures by 40%.
  • Set up performance monitoring with Splunk and ELK Stack, reducing incident response time by 25%.
  • Built OpenSearch clusters and integrated LLM/Generative AI features, reducing query response times by 40% and enhancing advanced user queries and automated summarization.
  • Leveraged AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM) for secure deployment and improved infrastructure scalability by 30%.
  • Fixed critical and non-critical bugs, improving system reliability by 30%, and developed ETL pipelines using Java and Micronaut, reducing data transformation time by 35%.

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Web Services
06.2022 - 12.2022
  • Worked as an SDE I upgrading the widely used Chime Application.
  • Responsible for developing multiple features which include the export chat history, setting up a recurring meeting.
  • Was involved in developing multiple microservices using NodeJS. Was also involved in patching these microservices to the graphQL server to connect with the UI.
  • Was involve in developing the refresh UI of Chime from scratch using React and Typescript.
  • Responsible for the Whole development cycle including CI/CD to deploy high available and scalable applications considering the usability of the applications across organization.
  • Responsible for developing and successfully delivering components by collaborating with businesses and developers to produce efficient and scalable solutions and deploying applications into AWS. Implemented AWS services (Lambda, S3, ECS) using AWS CDK.
  • Worked With documentation, Unit integration/eze testing, code reviews, and bug nixes.
  • Routinely mentored, interviewed & participated in team code & design reviews, and made ops & security improvements.
  • Involved in various operational activities including on-call for handling randomization tasks resolving customers' and user's issues, Monthly Security Patching, fixing several security findings, and writing runbooks.

Software Engineer

Technosoft Solutions
08.2016 - 11.2020
  • Enterprise Billing Application is the portal for managing daily billing issues.
  • Developed server-side applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate to interact with the PostgreSQL database, improving data processing speed by 30%.
  • Developed a server-side application to interact with the database using Spring Boot and Hibernate, enhancing the efficiency of data transactions by 25%.
  • Implemented Spring MVC and Spring Security, resulting in a 25% enhancement in application security and response times.
  • Developed RESTful APIs using Spring REST, facilitating efficient client-server communication and improving request handling efficiency by 20%.
  • Tested REST APIs with Postman, achieving a 95% test coverage rate for backend services, reducing post-deployment issues by 15%.
  • Created complex SQL queries, stored procedures, and functions in PostgreSQL, optimizing query execution time by 20%.
  • Developed User Interfaces using HTML5, CSS3, React, JavaScript, C#, Bootstrap, jQuery, and Angular, leading to a 40% increase in user satisfaction and a 25% reduction in front-end load time.
  • Developed a web application using Angular, utilizing Bootstrap and Angular Material for responsive design, resulting in a 35% increase in user accessibility across devices.
  • Used Docker to create Docker images and manage Docker Container services, reducing deployment time by 35% and ensuring uniformity across environments.

Education

Master of Science - Computers & Information Sciences

Southern Arkansas University
Arkansas
05.2022

Bachelor of Science - ECE

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Kakinada
04.2016

Skills

    Programming Languages Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, NodeJS, C, C, C#, Go language

    Web Technologies HTML5, CSS 3, JQuery, RESTful APIs

    Development Tools and Environments IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, Maven, Gradle

    Testing Tools JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, Jest

    Framework/Libraries Spring, Spring Boot, Bootstrap, React JS, Drop Wizard, Angular 8

    Cloud Services EC2, S3, Redshift, AWS Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, IAM , Azure VM, Azure SQL Database, Azure Functions, Azure Active Directory, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Blob Storage, Terraform

    Containerization and Orchestration Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift

    CI/CD Tools Jenkins, Spinnaker

    Database Technologies MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, MongoDB, DynamoDB

    Messaging Systems Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, CDK

    Network Protocols TCP/IP, HTTP, WebSockets

    Generative AI Tools GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, Amazon Q, Azure ML

    Version Control GitHub, Bitbucket

Timeline

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Fidelity Investments
01.2023 - Current

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Web Services
06.2022 - 12.2022

Software Engineer

Technosoft Solutions
08.2016 - 11.2020

Master of Science - Computers & Information Sciences

Southern Arkansas University

Bachelor of Science - ECE

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

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