Rakesh Aitham
Java Backend Developer • Hyderabad, India • r************@gmail.com • +91*******971 • linkedin.com/••••• • drivetube.ai/•••••
Professional Summary
Java Backend Developer with 3.6 years of experience building scalable, secure, and high-performance backend systems using Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and RESTful APIs. Experienced in Spring Security, JWT, Kafka-based event-driven design, Hibernate/JPA persistence, and cloud/container deployments (Docker, Jenkins, AWS EC2/S3). Proven ability to design API-first services, write unit tests with JUnit/Mockito, and support production banking microservices in Agile teams.
Technical Skills
Programming Languages: Java,JavaScript
Frameworks and Libraries: Spring Boot,Spring MVC,Spring Security,Hibernate,JPA,React.js
Databases: SQL,PostgreSQL,MongoDB,Oracle,Caching
Cloud and DevOps: Docker,Jenkins,AWS EC2,AWS S3,CI/CD
Testing: JUnit,Mockito,Unit Testing
Tools and Methodologies: Swagger,OpenAPI,Postman,Git,Maven,Log4j,SLF4J,Microservices,Distributed Systems,Agile Scrum,System Design
Web & Frontend: HTML5,CSS3,RESTful APIs,JWT
Messaging & Streaming: Apache Kafka,Message Queues
Work Experience
TCS
Hyderabad, India
Java Backend Developer
Nov 2022 – Present
Worked on TCS BaNCS core banking microservices platform, building backend services for customer onboarding, account management, loan management, and transaction processing.
Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, JWT, Hibernate, JPA, Apache Kafka, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Docker, Jenkins, Git, Swagger, OpenAPI, Postman, JUnit, Mockito, Log4j, SLF4J, GitHub Copilot, AWS
- Designed and implemented 12+ modular microservices for customer onboarding, account management, loan management, and transaction processing using Java, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, and Hibernate, enabling seamless integration across core banking systems and reducing feature delivery time by 30%.
- Built event-driven integrations using Apache Kafka to process 100K+ messages/day for asynchronous transaction processing and near-real-time data propagation between services, reducing inter-service response latency by 40% and improving system resilience.
- Developed and optimized persistence layers using JPA/Hibernate with Oracle and MySQL (with experience in PostgreSQL and MongoDB), refactored 50+ complex queries and data models, improving query performance by 35% and reducing database-related production issues by 25%.
- Containerized 10+ services using Docker and implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins; deployed applications to AWS EC2 and leveraged Amazon S3 for storage, reducing deployment time from 30 minutes to under 10 minutes and enabling 90% automated release workflows.
- Created and maintained 40+ REST API specifications using Swagger/OpenAPI, validated 200+ API test scenarios with Postman, authored 300+ unit and integration tests using JUnit and Mockito, achieving 85%+ code coverage while reducing production defects by 30%. Maintained application logging with Log4j and SLF4J, provided production support, and resolved 95% of critical incidents within SLA in an Agile Scrum environment.
Education
Sree Chaitanya Institute of Technological Sciences
B-TECH | CSE • 2018 – 2022
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