Shanmukh Praveen Kothala
Professional Summary
Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience building cloud-native enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, RESTful APIs, AWS, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, and CI/CD across automotive, telecommunications, and mobility domains. Delivered high-performance distributed systems that improved platform scalability by 40% while enhancing reliability, security, and operational efficiency. Experienced in designing scalable backend architectures, developing event-driven solutions, optimizing application performance, and delivering business-critical software through Agile development and DevOps best practices. Proven expertise in building secure, resilient, and available applications that support large-scale enterprise operations and evolving business requirements.
Technical Skills
Work Experience
- Architected Connected Vehicle and Fleet Management microservices using Java, improving platform scalability by 35% while supporting real-time vehicle diagnostics, telematics processing, vehicle health monitoring, and high-volume fleet data workflows.
- Developed enterprise applications using Spring Boot for vehicle telemetry, fleet operations, maintenance scheduling, service management, and reporting workflows, improving the reliability and maintainability of distributed automotive applications.
- Built responsive fleet-management interfaces using Angular, improving operational visibility into vehicle health, diagnostic information, service activities, and fleet performance by 30% for internal operations teams.
- Designed and implemented RESTful APIs for vehicle telemetry and fleet operations, enabling reliable integration between distributed automotive applications and supporting consistent exchange of real-time vehicle and fleet data.
- Implemented Apache Kafka for high-volume vehicle telemetry and diagnostic events, enabling asynchronous event processing and reducing telemetry processing latency by 40% across distributed vehicle-management services.
- Deployed and monitored containerized automotive applications on AWS using Terraform improving deployment consistency, infrastructure visibility, and production monitoring across cloud-based environments.
- Developed Java and Spring-based enterprise applications supporting healthcare service workflows, customer data management, and secure transaction processing, improving application reliability by 20%.
- Designed RESTful APIs integrating healthcare applications and backend services, enabling reliable exchange of customer, service, and transactional data.
- Managed structured healthcare and enterprise data using Oracle and NoSQL databases, supporting high volume healthcare data processing, service workflows, and operational reporting while improving data retrieval performance by 25%.
- Implemented data validation and error handling mechanisms for distributed healthcare service workflows, improving data consistency and reliability across integrated applications.
- Monitored healthcare application performance using Prometheus and Grafana, reducing production issue resolution time by 20% through improved visibility into service availability, transaction processing, resource utilization, and application performance.
- Automated application builds and deployments using Jenkins, reducing manual deployment activities by 45% while standardizing build, testing, and release workflows across development and production environments.
- Engineered scalable backend services using Java and Spring Boot, increasing ride-processing throughput by 40% during peak transportation demand while supporting high-volume ride requests and distributed mobility workflows.
- Designed and implemented RESTful APIs supporting ride requests, driver assignment, fare estimation, payment processing, and rider management, enabling reliable communication between distributed mobility services and business applications.
- Optimized transaction processing using PostgreSQL, improving database query performance and reducing service latency by 32% during periods of high ride demand and transaction volume.
- Implemented Apache Kafka messaging to support asynchronous and event-driven ride and payment workflows, enabling reliable communication between distributed services while improving processing efficiency and system scalability.
- Containerized mobility applications using Docker and Kubernetes, standardizing application deployment and improving deployment consistency across distributed production environments.
- Automated application delivery using GitHub Actions streamlining source-control, build, testing, and CI/CD workflows while improving the consistency and efficiency of application releases.
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