I am a Senior Full Stack / Backend Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing and building scalable distributed systems and cloud-native applications using Node.js (Express, Fastify, Hapi, Sails, Nest), TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, Angular, Vue.js, and leveraging AI-assisted development to boost engineering productivity and accelerate feature delivery. I specialize in microservices, REST and GraphQL APIs, and event-driven architectures, and I leverage AI-assisted development and LLM APIs to enhance data validation, automation, and context-aware workflows. I have extensive experience deploying highly available applications on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, RDS, EKS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, IAM and DynamoDB), implementing CI/CD automation with Jenkins, containerization using Docker, and practicing Agile development. I am dedicated to improving system performance, scalability, and reliability in enterprise production environments and enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business impact.

Akshitha Gurrala

I am a Senior Full Stack / Backend Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing and building scalable distributed systems and cloud-native applications using Node.js (Express, Fastify, Hapi, Sails, Nest), TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, Angular, Vue.js, and leveraging AI-assisted development to boost engineering productivity and accelerate feature delivery. I specialize in microservices, REST and GraphQL APIs, and event-driven architectures, and I leverage AI-assisted development and LLM APIs to enhance data validation, automation, and context-aware workflows. I have extensive experience deploying highly available applications on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, RDS, EKS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, IAM and DynamoDB), implementing CI/CD automation with Jenkins, containerization using Docker, and practicing Agile development. I am dedicated to improving system performance, scalability, and reliability in enterprise production environments and enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business impact.

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I am a Senior Full Stack / Backend Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing and building scalable distributed systems and cloud-native applications using Node.js (Express, Fastify, Hapi, Sails, Nest), TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, Angular, Vue.js, and leveraging AI-assisted development to boost engineering productivity and accelerate feature delivery. I specialize in microservices, REST and GraphQL APIs, and event-driven architectures, and I leverage AI-assisted development and LLM APIs to enhance data validation, automation, and context-aware workflows.

I have extensive experience deploying highly available applications on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, RDS, EKS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, IAM and DynamoDB), implementing CI/CD automation with Jenkins, containerization using Docker, and practicing Agile development. I am dedicated to improving system performance, scalability, and reliability in enterprise production environments and enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business impact.

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Work Experience

Senior Full Stack Developer at Prudential
October 1, 2023 - Present
Design and develop scalable REST and GraphQL APIs using Node.js, TypeScript, and NestJS within a microservices architecture supporting 500K+ daily financial transactions, improving system throughput by 35% through optimized service orchestration and asynchronous processing. Build and maintain enterprise-scale Angular applications using RxJS, NgRx, reactive forms, and reusable component architecture, enabling efficient state management and improving application responsiveness for high-volume financial workflows. Develop reusable UI components and dynamic user interfaces using React.js and Next.js, optimize rendering performance and reduce front-end load times by 40% through component-level optimization and efficient state handling. Implement Apache Kafka event streaming pipelines processing ~1M+ events/day, enabling reliable asynchronous communication between distributed services and integrated AI-augmented capabilities using LLM APIs to support intelligent data validation, automated pr
Senior Full Stack Developer at Nelnet
September 1, 2022 - October 1, 2023
Developed enterprise-scale REST and GraphQL APIs using TypeScript, Node.js and NestJS serving 100K+ active users across financial services platforms. Designed and developed modular Angular components, services, directives, and reusable UI modules using RxJS and NgRx, enabling scalable single-page application architecture and improving maintainability, state management, and application performance across enterprise financial platforms. Designed secure and highly available AWS infrastructure for microservices-based applications, implementing auto-scaling, centralized logging, monitoring, and role-based access controls for enterprise production environments. Designed and optimized database access patterns, indexing strategies, and query execution workflows across MongoDB and PostgreSQL, improving query performance by 50% and enhancing scalability. Maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and Bitbucket workflows, enabling automated deployments to Kubernetes environments with weekly production re
Senior Full Stack Developer at Toyota
January 1, 2021 - September 1, 2022
Developed Node.js and Java microservices supporting vehicle data processing platforms handling 500K+ records/day, leveraging Mongoose for schema design, validation, and efficient data access in MongoDB. Built scalable and reusable frontend interfaces using React.js, Next.js, and Vue.js with Hooks, component-based architecture, and efficient state management, improving user workflow efficiency by 25%. Designed AWS serverless services reducing infrastructure costs by 30% through event-driven scaling. Led migration of 20M+ records from MySQL to DynamoDB using AWS DMS, improving data retrieval performance by 40%. Designed and optimized distributed cloud architectures on AWS with caching, load balancing, monitoring, and database optimization strategies, improving system performance, reliability, and scalability. Developed Jest/Mocha automated tests achieving 85% test coverage, improving release stability.
Full stack Developer at Florida Blue (BCBS)
September 1, 2019 - December 1, 2020
Built Node.js and Java REST APIs supporting healthcare systems processing 300K+ insurance records daily. Developed and optimized enterprise-scale Angular SPA applications using RxJS, NgRx, reusable components, and reactive forms, improving provider portal usability and reducing page load times by 35% across high-traffic healthcare workflows. Implemented Apache Kafka messaging pipelines processing ~500K events/day for healthcare data synchronization, enabling real-time data ingestion and seamless integration with Snowflake to support downstream analytics and data-driven applications. Designed PostgreSQL database schemas and complex SQL queries improving reporting performance by 40%. Containerized applications using Docker and supported deployments in Kubernetes environments, enabling consistent and scalable deployments across environments.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
January 11, 2030 - May 13, 2026
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science at CVR College of Engineering
January 11, 2030 - May 13, 2026

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Industry Experience

Computers & Electronics, Financial Services, Healthcare, Software & Internet, Professional Services