Raghavendhar K
Professional Summary
Full Stack Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling cloud-native web applications and ML-driven fraud detection systems for financial services and payments. Experienced across React, TypeScript, Node.js, Java/Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability platforms; delivered high-availability microservices, streaming analytics, and production ML deployments supporting large user bases.
Technical Skills
Work Experience
- Developed full-stack TypeScript applications using React and Node.js with PostgreSQL, supporting 500K+ active users across web and mobile and improving feature delivery velocity.
- Implemented end-to-end observability using OpenTelemetry and Datadog, instrumenting services and LLM-specific traces to reduce mean time to detection (MTTD) by 45%.
- Led migration from a monolith to microservices on AWS EKS and Docker, increasing system uptime to 99.95% and cutting deployment time by 70%.
- Architected IAM services and secure token handling workflows using AWS IAM and industry best practices to strengthen access control and identity integrations.
- Collaborated with product, design, and data science teams to translate business requirements into scalable APIs and UI components; delivered 12+ major features on schedule following Agile processes and CI/CD.
- Improved code quality and release reliability by introducing automated tests and CI pipelines (GitHub Actions), reducing production incidents and accelerating mean time to recovery.
- Pioneered an intelligent fraud detection solution using Python, TensorFlow, and custom LLM prompting that identified ~85% of fraudulent transactions while reducing false positives by 40%.
- Streamlined streaming data pipelines with Apache Kafka and AWS Lambda to process 500GB+ of payment analytics data daily with automatic scaling and fault tolerance.
- Modernized admin dashboards using React, TypeScript, and Redux to present real-time payment flow and system-health insights, improving operational visibility for incident response teams.
- Optimized database queries and introduced a Redis caching tier to reduce API response times by 65% and lower database load by 40%.
- Provisioned multi-cloud infrastructure with Terraform across AWS and GCP and containerized services for Kubernetes deployment to standardize environments and accelerate releases.
- Integrated ML model deployment into CI/CD using Docker and GitHub Actions to enable reproducible builds, controlled rollouts, and faster iteration of fraud models.
- Delivered full-stack features using React, Next.js, TypeScript, Spring Boot, and MongoDB across product modules, contributing to frequent user-facing releases during bi-weekly sprints.
- Maintained 90%+ unit test coverage and implemented automated UI and integration tests to increase release confidence and reduce regressions.
- Automated CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Docker, reducing release cycle time from two weeks to two days and enabling frequent deployments.
- Revamped microservices and cloud-native components using Spring Boot and Node.js, and migrated workloads to AWS and Azure services (S3, DynamoDB, Aurora, AKS), improving scalability by ~40%.
- Reduced cloud costs by 25% through Terraform-based provisioning, resource right-sizing, and improved monitoring of cloud resources.
- Partnered with QA to implement test automation and code review practices, decreasing regression defects by 30% and improving sprint velocity.
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