Naveen Reddy Alka

Senior Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States18 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Java and Spring frameworks.
  • Proven track record in performance optimization.
  • Led modernization of legacy systems to microservices.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in Fintech and SaaS.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaPerformance ImprovementsSpring WebfluxKubernetesSpring BootDockerSpringMysqlWeb Services

Other Skills

AJAXAPIsAWSAWS AuroraCassandraCore JavaCouchBaseDatabasesEJBEnterprise JavaBeans (EJB)FlywayHTMLHackingHibernateJ2EE

Experience

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Senior Software Engineer II

Feb 2022Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · Oakland, California, United States · On-site

Turo

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2021Feb 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • Part of Turo's platform and performance team I have been working on upkeep of a few old legacy services and mainly focused on performance improvements on the core platform backend. Have been getting our APIs and databases to communicate in the most efficient way while clearing out some of the bottlenecks with respect to network, infrastructure and design based.
JavaPerformance ImprovementsAPIsDatabases

Pearson

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2020Jan 2021 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • As a senior member of the cross cutting team I have the opportunity to shape the technology direction of Pearson. Already far ahead with respect to the latest technologies compared to competitors, Pearson is using reactive programming as a basic building unit for all of its teams and with this comes new challenges which have never been faced by many in the current technology landscape. My work here means to develop platforms which help teams mitigate some of these boiler plate problems in services, logging, security, metric and monitoring etc. I work with Spring WebFlux, Project Reactor, Kubernetes , CouchBase, AWS and others
Spring WebFluxProject ReactorKubernetesCouchBaseAWS

Nordstrom

Sr. Engineer

Mar 2019Nov 2019 · 8 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • As part of Ordering and Allocation team I have started to phase out legacy monolithic old ordering systems. In this process of modernization we are moving towards micro services and serverless architecture focused on cloud. I work on REST based Spring Boot/Data apps over Docker and Kubernetes, using gitlab for its CI/CD, AWS Aurora and a Cassandra cluster deployed on AWS EC2s as our data store while we publish change log to a Kafka Cluster.
Spring BootDockerKubernetesAWS AuroraCassandraKafka

Wenova

Software Engineer

Mar 2018Mar 2019 · 1 yr · Greater St. Louis Area

  • As senior member of the team I took care of design and development of new features, performance improvements and critical design issues in the aging system. CDH-Customer Data Hub is the first step towards data integrity, through micro service oriented architecture. CMS will be source of truth for customer data and it provides APIs for systems to operate on. Some of tech I worked on are Java, Spring, Hibernate, Quartz, Camel Integration,Docker, PostgreSql, Jenkins, Puppet, Flyway etc
JavaSpringHibernateDockerPostgreSqlJenkins+2

Makemytrip.com

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Sep 2016Jan 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • In a role of an Architect for payments at MMT I have started on analyzing fundamental issues with design, flow
  • and overall system architecture. As continuation to the analysis I am currently working a total revamp of the
  • system from scratch with strong fundamentals and robust architecture.

Dailyhunt (versé innovation pvt ltd)

Principal Software Engineer

Apr 2016Sep 2016 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • As an IC I have started on specific features for Books backend initially to ramp up and then on implementing a
  • search platform in general and specifically for Books, it's setup on Elasticsearch as the store and NodeJs as the
  • service platform.

Myntra.com

Technical Lead

Dec 2013Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

  • As a Tech Lead I will be looking after all of the secure services for Myntra which include Payments , Cart and
  • Address. Priority always is to maintain 100% uptime at scale - 300 million carts , Hundreds of thousands of
  • Payments every day. I am currently working on a inhouse distributed database solution - application sharding over
  • MYSQL , Cassandra and Payments Optimization.

Wavecrest group

Tech Lead

Nov 2009Dec 2013 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • · As a Lead I was involved in major financial startup projects from clients like
  • PartyGaming, GTECH and O2.
  • · Currently working on a cashier and an ewallet product from scratch.
  • · These projects , from financial services domain involve technologies like Java/J2EE,Web Services, EJB,
  • Spring, Hibernate.
JavaMySQLCassandra

Ivy comptech

Software Engineer

Jan 2009Nov 2009 · 10 mos

  • · As a Software Engineer I was involved in its Affiliates and Loyalty systems, majorly dealing with Java,
  • J2EE, Spring, Struts2, Perl, SQL, AJAX...
  • · Was involved in setting up new components in Affiliates system for scalability and maintainability
  • · Had a major role in adding the new merchandise system in the existing loyalty program,with a reward
  • system and a store specific for different player categories
JavaJ2EEWeb ServicesEJBSpringHibernate

Cognizant technology solutions

Program Analyst

Nov 2007Jan 2009 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • · As a Program Analyst,I worked under the client AMERICAN EXPRESS (AMEX), majorly dealing with
  • Java, J2EE, Struts, DOJO, XSLT...
  • · I was involved in a project called Apply Strategy which was to incorporate the new proposed strategies
  • to the apply site of AMEX, like data management system migration,implement Struts validations,
  • externalize configurations and framework change MOO TOOLS to DOJO.
JavaJ2EESpringStruts2SQLAJAX

Education

Arizona State University

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Jan 2019Jan 2021

NICMAR University

Post Graduate Programme — Construction Management

Jan 2011Jan 2014

National Institute of Technology Warangal

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Civil Engineering

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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