Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Reduced Kafka Streams memory usage by 70%, saving ~55-60GB in production, significantly improving pod stability while eliminating frequent OOM errors
• Designed and stabilised performance and load-testing infrastructure, enabling near-production validation and early detection of scalability issues
• Played a key role in AWS migration, resolving premature connection closures, gzip handling issues, large header constraints, and supporting validation and change releases
• Improved code quality and reliability by increasing code coverage to ~50% and fixed long standing functional gaps across core backend services
• Led resolution of high severity production issues including authentication failures, session errors, container OOMs, memory leaks, improving system stability and user experience
• Delivered enhancements for repair systems collaborating closely with Product, QA, Platform teams