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Capital One

May 2025 – Present

Senior Software Engineer

Riverwoods, IL

  • Migrating secured-card customers from Discover to Capital One post-acquisition
  • Managing customer graduation workflows and transition logic across business models
  • Setting up multi-region database failover with Helm configs and hardware provisioning
  • Maintaining 90%+ code coverage with Pact contract testing and Playwright acceptance tests
  • Designing blue-green and canary deployment strategies for zero-downtime releases
JavaSpring BootReactTypeScriptAWS AuroraKubernetesHelmDatadogTerraform

Discover Financial Services

Jul 2024 – Dec 2025

Application Engineer

Chicago, IL

  • Architected real-time ACH refund system with Spring Boot, Kafka, and AWS Fargate — saving $3M annually
  • Reduced latency 15% through F5 GTM routing and OpenShift ingress optimizations
  • Discovered Calico network policy misconfiguration affecting multiple teams — first to identify and report
  • Mentored team of 4 engineers, improving Agile velocity and reducing cycle time by 30%
  • Conducted PR reviews for 5-10 developers, enforcing coding standards
Spring BootKafkaPostgreSQLAWS FargateOpenShiftTerraformELK StackDatadog

Discover Financial Services

Sep 2023 – Jul 2024

Senior Associate Application Engineer

Chicago, IL

  • Built secured-card graduation dashboard reducing call center volume by 60% and graduation time by 48%
  • Modernized legacy WebSphere to React MFEs — boosted registrations by 73% and activations by 64%
  • Implemented micro-frontends with Webpack 5 Module Federation for seamless user experiences
  • Ran 50/50 A/B testing between legacy and modern stack over 2-3 months before full cutover
  • Achieved 99.994% uptime with Catchpoint synthetic monitoring and blue-green deployments
ReactTypeScriptSpring BootNode.jsModule FederationAWS AuroraKubernetesCatchpoint

Agilant Solutions, Inc.

Aug 2023 – Sep 2023

Full Stack Developer Intern

Lisle, IL

  • Integrated in-house technology order gateway for Walmart's B2B software
  • Built frontend with React/TypeScript, meticulously replicating Figma designs
  • Implemented chatbot interface for service activation/installation assistance
ReactTypeScriptPHP

Illinois Institute of Technology

Aug 2022 – May 2023

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Chicago, IL

  • CS 425 — Database Organization (Jan–May 2023)
  • CS 442 — Mobile Application Development (Aug–Dec 2022)
SQLMobile DevelopmentTeaching

EY LLP

Jun 2022 – Aug 2022

Software Engineer Intern

Chicago, IL

  • Developed cloud-based microservices for food delivery platform using Spring Boot and Docker
  • Implemented MFA for enhanced system security
  • Async messaging with RabbitMQ and Kafka — 60% better scalability and fault tolerance
Spring BootDockerKubernetesKafkaRabbitMQ

Oracle Financial Services Software

Sep 2018 – Jul 2021

Associate → Staff Consultant

Bengaluru, India

  • Built core banking processing engines handling millions of transactions/day for 1M+ concurrent users
  • Developed distributed nightly batch frameworks for interest accruals, maturity payouts, and settlements
  • Optimized concurrency and SQL queries reducing batch runtime by 30%
  • Executed large-scale Oracle 19c migrations with zero data loss across hundreds of millions of records
  • Built reusable bulk file ingestion framework processing 20K-30K+ customers daily
JavaSpring BootSpring BatchPL/SQLOracle 19cOracle WebLogicJenkins

Just Think Technologies

Feb 2016 – Aug 2018

Software Developer

Bengaluru, India

  • Designed responsive e-commerce applications with React.js, Redux, and Axios
  • Built REST APIs with Spring Boot — enabled 50% faster order processing
  • Implemented caching and load balancing with Nginx and AWS ELB — cut API response times by 45%
ReactReduxSpring BootMongoDBNginxAWS