Building scalable backend systems in Java, Spring Boot, and event-driven architecture — currently working on real-time data pipelines, microservices, and production-grade caching strategies.

• 💼 Software Engineer with 1.5+ years of full-time experience building backend microservices and distributed systems, plus prior full-stack development experience
• 🏗️ Currently working on Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and Kafka-based event-driven systems at scale
• ☁️ Hands-on with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes for building and deploying production systems
• 🔐 Experienced in implementing OAuth2 / Spring Security for microservices security hardening
• 🤖 Recently built an LLM-powered agent (LangChain4j) for automated workflow tooling
• 📫 Reach me at shikhar.dev2001@gmail.com

Languages: Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, HTML5, CSS3

Backend & Frameworks: Spring, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, RESTful Web Services, GraphQL, Apache Kafka, Spring Cloud, OAuth2, JWT

Frontend: React, Redux, Next.js, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS

Databases & Storage: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis

Cloud, DevOps & Tools: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda), Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Maven, Gradle, Postman, Swagger, Terraform

Software Engineer — Backend Systems (Jan 2025 – Current)

• Designed and implemented 6 microservices (Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs) supporting a platform handling 2M+ daily API requests
• Rearchitected legacy PostgreSQL queries powering a high-volume checkout flow, cutting average query time from 800ms to 250ms
• Built a Kafka-based event pipeline processing 500K+ events/day, replacing a batch job that previously ran every 6 hours
• Rolled out OAuth2 and Spring Security across 8 microservices as part of a security hardening initiative
• Built a Spring Boot service integrating a LangChain4j agent for automated ticket categorization, cutting manual triage effort by 35%

Java Full Stack Developer Intern (Jan 2021 – May 2023)

• Contributed to backend services and JWT-based authentication for a banking client's compliance initiative
• Built front-end components for a client-facing portal serving 10,000+ monthly active users
• Wrote 40+ automated test cases (JUnit, Mockito) and helped configure Redis caching, cutting response times from 900ms to 180ms

-M.S. in Computer Science — Stevens Institute of Technology (2023 – 2025)

-B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering — Vellore Institute of Technology (2019 – 2023)

Open to full-time backend/full-stack engineering opportunities.