I am a Senior Java engineer with 6+ years building high-throughput distributed systems and event-driven microservices in fintech and financial services. I thrive on solving complex reliability, performance, and security challenges at scale, and I’m passionate about bringing AI-focused innovations into production. I enjoy collaborating across teams to ship robust, secure software and accelerate delivery cycles while maintaining a thoughtful focus on data privacy and compliance. Right now I’m integrating AWS Bedrock-powered LLM services into production microservices as part of a firm-wide AI modernization initiative, and I’m expanding ML model deployments on AWS. I value zero-downtime delivery, strong observability, and a security-first mindset that preserves system integrity even under peak load.

NAVA SAI SNIGDHA K

I am a Senior Java engineer with 6+ years building high-throughput distributed systems and event-driven microservices in fintech and financial services. I thrive on solving complex reliability, performance, and security challenges at scale, and I’m passionate about bringing AI-focused innovations into production. I enjoy collaborating across teams to ship robust, secure software and accelerate delivery cycles while maintaining a thoughtful focus on data privacy and compliance. Right now I’m integrating AWS Bedrock-powered LLM services into production microservices as part of a firm-wide AI modernization initiative, and I’m expanding ML model deployments on AWS. I value zero-downtime delivery, strong observability, and a security-first mindset that preserves system integrity even under peak load.

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I am a Senior Java engineer with 6+ years building high-throughput distributed systems and event-driven microservices in fintech and financial services. I thrive on solving complex reliability, performance, and security challenges at scale, and I’m passionate about bringing AI-focused innovations into production. I enjoy collaborating across teams to ship robust, secure software and accelerate delivery cycles while maintaining a thoughtful focus on data privacy and compliance.

Right now I’m integrating AWS Bedrock-powered LLM services into production microservices as part of a firm-wide AI modernization initiative, and I’m expanding ML model deployments on AWS. I value zero-downtime delivery, strong observability, and a security-first mindset that preserves system integrity even under peak load.

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Work Experience

Software Engineer at S&P Global
August 1, 2023 - Present
Engineered scalable enterprise applications using Spring MVC and Spring IoC patterns to ensure modular, testable, and maintainable architecture. Developed and enhanced OpsConnect for Delta’s airport operations, implemented Spring Boot microservices with MongoDB and SQL Server, designed and deployed RESTful APIs, and integrated third-party services via RestTemplate. Improved data retrieval speeds and security with Spring Security; enhanced UI components with Angular; established JMS-based asynchronous communication across 10+ microservices and automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins to accelerate releases and reduce deployment errors. Achieved over 85% unit-test coverage using JUnit and Mockito.
Software Development Engineer at Zoho
June 1, 2022 - September 23, 2025
Adhered to Agile SCRUM methodologies and built robust persistence with Hibernate (Oracle) including HQL operations, along with second-level caching and lazy loading. Developed RESTful services with Spring Boot and deployed to AWS EC2. Streamlined Docker-based CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins; designed SOAP-based web services using JAX-WS and supported Struts 2 UI layers. Leveraged Apache Kafka for real-time messaging and enforced API security with Spring Security.
Software Engineer Intern at Razorpay
November 1, 2020 - September 23, 2025
Integrated server-side components using Spring Beans, Struts services, and Hibernate DAOs; backend development with PHP and MySQL, Linux server configuration, and MongoDB for JSON storage, resulting in improved data processing speeds. Implemented AJAX-based UI features, created custom validation annotations in Spring MVC, and utilized Log4j for logging. Verified APIs with Spring Boot Testing Starter and enhanced frontend with jQuery and HTML5/CSS.
Software Engineer at S&P Global
August 1, 2023 - Present
Engineered scalable enterprise applications using Spring MVC, applying Spring IoC patterns to ensure modular, testable, and maintainable architecture. Contributed to OpsConnect to streamline Delta’s airport operations, communication, and incident management. Implemented scalable Spring Boot microservices and optimized data handling with MongoDB and SQL Server, improving system performance and data retrieval speeds. Designed and deployed RESTful APIs with Spring, integrating third-party services via RestTemplate, with endpoint validation using Postman. Enhanced UI components using Angular, HTML5, and Bootstrap, delivering a responsive interface across devices. Delivered backend services using Node.js and managed data with MongoDB, optimizing NoSQL schemas and improving query performance by ~30%. Integrated Spring Security for robust authentication and authorization across microservices. Designed JMS messaging to enable asynchronous communication, boosting reliability and reducing proc
Software Development Engineer at Zoho
June 30, 2022 - September 23, 2025
Adhered to Agile SCRUM methodology; built a persistence layer using Hibernate and ORM mappings; integrated Spring with Hibernate for Oracle DB, improving data access efficiency via second-level cache and lazy loading. Developed and published RESTful services with Spring Boot, deployed to AWS EC2 for integration testing. Streamlined Docker image creation with Dockerfiles and CI/CD via Jenkins; designed SOAP-based web services (JAX-WS) and mock frontend interfaces with Struts2; leveraged Apache Kafka for real-time messaging to reduce latency; enforced API security with Spring Security.
Software Engineer Intern at Razor Pay
November 30, 2020 - September 23, 2025
Integrated server-side components using Spring Beans, Struts services, and Hibernate DAOs; backend development with PHP and MySQL; configured Apache on Linux; utilized MongoDB for JSON storage, resulting in a 20% improvement in data processing speed. Implemented AJAX-based asynchronous communication, created custom validation annotations in Spring MVC, used Log4j for logging, and enhanced UI with jQuery and HTML4; performed API testing using Spring Boot Testing Starter.
Software Engineer at S&P Global, USA
August 1, 2023 - November 3, 2025
Developed a highly scalable webhook service to enable real-time communication between multiple internal and client applications, handling over 5 million notifications daily with retries and subscription management, improving system reliability and responsiveness. Designed and implemented a rate limiter using the fixed-window algorithm to manage traffic spikes, resulting in a 35% improvement in system throughput and reduced risk of service throttling. Optimized processing of large event payloads using NumPy, reducing data transformation latency by 20% and improving overall service performance. Built a multi-threaded polling service to fetch and publish customer data to Kafka for downstream processing, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and scalable event handling. Implemented end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, automating build, test, and deployment workflows, which reduced release time and improved deployment reliability.
Software Development Engineer at Zoho, India
June 1, 2022 - June 1, 2022
Designed and implemented a cloud data security platform for SaaS applications (OneDrive, Slack Enterprise, Workplace), processing ~50 million tasks/day, enabling real-time detection and action on sensitive or malicious files. Built asynchronous task pipelines using Celery, Redis, MongoDB, and Kafka, enforcing customer-defined policies in real-time and improving pipeline reliability and throughput. Developed AWS-based pipelines leveraging Lambda, API Gateway, S3, and SQS with secure cross-VPC data movement, ensuring efficient and compliant data handling across multiple environments. Automated deployment and configuration using Terraform, and created internal SDKs to enable secure deployment of machine learning models by internal teams. Improved pipeline performance by designing task fan-out mechanisms in Celery, reducing end-to-end processing time and increasing system scalability.
Software Engineer at Razorpay, India
November 1, 2020 - November 1, 2020
Developed a Vault client library to securely store/retrieve sensitive data like client secrets and tokens. Built a tenant cleanup service to remove tenant data across microservices, ensuring compliance and reliability during offboarding.
Software Development Engineer at Zoho Corporation
January 1, 2021 - June 1, 2022
Improved data retrieval efficiency by 25% in Spring Boot/Oracle applications via Hibernate caching and indexing optimizations. Reduced inter-service latency by 40% by implementing Apache Kafka-based asynchronous messaging patterns. Led migration of legacy SOAP (JAX-WS) web services to RESTful APIs, enhancing downstream integration flexibility. Implemented RBAC and multi-layer authentication using Spring Security, and maintained 99.9% uptime through proactive monitoring and automated alerting on AWS deployments.
Software Engineer at Razorpay
September 1, 2018 - November 1, 2020
Optimized Spring MVC and Hibernate-based payment backend, improving server-side processing efficiency by 20% under high-volume transaction loads. Reduced MongoDB document retrieval latency by 35% through query optimization and improved data modeling under heavy concurrent reads/writes. Redesigned internal payment dashboards using HTML5, Bootstrap, and AJAX, decreasing average page load time by 25%. Increased test coverage from 40% to 80% by establishing comprehensive code quality standards including Log4J structured logging and JUnit/Mockito testing.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science at Rivier University, New Hampshire, USA
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2024
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at SCSVMV University, Tamil Nadu, India
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2022
Master of Science in Computer Science at Rivier University
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2024
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at SCSVMV University
January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2022
Master's in Computer Science at Rivier University, Nashua, United States
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2024
Bachelor's in Computer Science at SCSVMV University, Kanchipuram, India
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2022
Master of Science at Rivier University
January 1, 2022 - January 1, 2024

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services