Dear Hiring Manager, I am excited to apply for the Software Engineer position at your company. With 4+ years of experience building scalable backend and full-stack applications, I have worked extensively with Java 17/21, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed systems. In my current role at Stripe, I develop cloud-native payment services that process millions of transactions, build secure REST and gRPC APIs, design event-driven architectures using RabbitMQ, and improve system reliability through resilient engineering practices. Previously at Accenture, I built high-performance e-commerce microservices using Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, and React while contributing to scalable, secure, and production-ready solutions. I enjoy solving complex engineering problems, writing clean and maintainable code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and continuously learning new technologies. I also have hands-on experience with AI-powered applications, including AI Agents and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), along with modern DevOps practices such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and automated testing. I would welcome the opportunity to contribute my technical skills and passion for building reliable software to your team. Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to the opportunity to discuss how I can add value to your organization. Sincerely, Laxmi Kalva

Dear Hiring Manager, I am excited to apply for the Software Engineer position at your company. With 4+ years of experience building scalable backend and full-stack applications, I have worked extensively with Java 17/21, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed systems. In my current role at Stripe, I develop cloud-native payment services that process millions of transactions, build secure REST and gRPC APIs, design event-driven architectures using RabbitMQ, and improve system reliability through resilient engineering practices. Previously at Accenture, I built high-performance e-commerce microservices using Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, and React while contributing to scalable, secure, and production-ready solutions. I enjoy solving complex engineering problems, writing clean and maintainable code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and continuously learning new technologies. I also have hands-on experience with AI-powered applications, including AI Agents and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), along with modern DevOps practices such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and automated testing. I would welcome the opportunity to contribute my technical skills and passion for building reliable software to your team. Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to the opportunity to discuss how I can add value to your organization. Sincerely, Laxmi Kalva

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Dear Hiring Manager,
I am excited to apply for the Software Engineer position at your company. With 4+ years of experience building scalable backend and full-stack applications, I have worked extensively with Java 17/21, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
In my current role at Stripe, I develop cloud-native payment services that process millions of transactions, build secure REST and gRPC APIs, design event-driven architectures using RabbitMQ, and improve system reliability through resilient engineering practices. Previously at Accenture, I built high-performance e-commerce microservices using Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, and React while contributing to scalable, secure, and production-ready solutions.
I enjoy solving complex engineering problems, writing clean and maintainable code, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and continuously learning new technologies. I also have hands-on experience with AI-powered applications, including AI Agents and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), along with modern DevOps practices such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and automated testing.
I would welcome the opportunity to contribute my technical skills and passion for building reliable software to your team. Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to the opportunity to discuss how I can add value to your organization.
Sincerely,
Laxmi Kalva

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Software Engineer at Stripe
January 1, 2025 - Present
Architected Java 21 and Spring Boot microservices for Stripe's global payment authorization platform handling 12M+ monthly transactions. Designed an event-driven payment orchestration layer using RabbitMQ and MongoDB for authorization, settlement, and payment events. Implemented idempotency and retry policies to reduce latency by 35% and prevent duplicate processing. Built secure, versioned REST and gRPC APIs with Spring Security, OAuth 2.0, and JWT; integrated 15+ internal/external payment services and reduced integration failures by 30% while meeting PCI DSS requirements. Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and deployed containerized microservices to Amazon EKS using Docker. Created CI/CD pipelines with rolling deployments, autoscaling, and health checks reducing deployment time by 60%. Improved resiliency with Resilience4j circuit breakers and caching with Redis; maintained 99.99% availability during peak traffic and third-party disruptions. Implemented observabilit
Software Engineer at Accenture
February 1, 2021 - July 31, 2023
Developed Java 17 and Spring Boot microservices for a large-scale e-commerce platform supporting 150K+ daily orders across order management, checkout, inventory, and catalog services with 99.9% availability. Designed an event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Redis to synchronize order, inventory, payment, and shipment events, reducing order processing latency by 35% and improving inventory consistency. Built secure REST and GraphQL APIs with Spring Security, mTLS, and API Gateway connecting payment, shipping, and customer services; standardized API contracts to simplify service-to-service communication. Improved performance using Redis caching, asynchronous processing, and Resilience4j circuit breakers to reduce dependency failures during seasonal peaks. Deployed containerized services to Amazon EKS using Docker and Helm; configured OpenTelemetry tracing and Splunk dashboards for production visibility and faster incident investigation. Implemented automated unit,

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Master of Science in Computer Science at George Mason University
January 11, 2030 - July 21, 2026
Master of Science in Computer Science at George Mason University
January 11, 2030 - July 21, 2026
Master of Science in Computer Science at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
January 11, 2030 - July 21, 2026

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Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services, Healthcare, Education