Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, microservices, Kafka, REST APIs, ReactJS, AWS, and Kubernetes. Experienced across distributed systems, cloud technologies, and CI/CD to improve reliability, performance, and development velocity. Track record of reducing manual effort by up to ~75% and improving system performance and reliability by up to ~40% through automation, re-architecture, and platform cleanup. Proven ability to drive upgrades, build high-quality test coverage with TDD, and collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams at scale.

Prathiksha Mahadeva Gowda

Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, microservices, Kafka, REST APIs, ReactJS, AWS, and Kubernetes. Experienced across distributed systems, cloud technologies, and CI/CD to improve reliability, performance, and development velocity. Track record of reducing manual effort by up to ~75% and improving system performance and reliability by up to ~40% through automation, re-architecture, and platform cleanup. Proven ability to drive upgrades, build high-quality test coverage with TDD, and collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams at scale.

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Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, microservices, Kafka, REST APIs, ReactJS, AWS, and Kubernetes. Experienced across distributed systems, cloud technologies, and CI/CD to improve reliability, performance, and development velocity.

Track record of reducing manual effort by up to ~75% and improving system performance and reliability by up to ~40% through automation, re-architecture, and platform cleanup. Proven ability to drive upgrades, build high-quality test coverage with TDD, and collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams at scale.

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Work Experience

Software Engineer 3 at Nike
November 1, 2024 - Present
Led a critical multi-service Java 11 upgrade for Files API and adjacent backend services, modernizing runtime dependencies and reducing security risk (cut CVEs ~90%). Implemented CSV export capabilities for Global Search and Work Queues, supporting rich Slate-notes content; reduced manual report-pulling time by ~50% for merchandising/ops. Drove a major Color Reference overhaul by restructuring the data model and recalculation logic to correct long-standing data accuracy issues affecting ~20% of merch-type records and unblocking downstream workflows. Improved API performance and user-perceived latency by keeping GraphQL Lambda warm and optimizing React route loading with Suspense/lazy loading (cut cold-start latency ~30%, initial load ~25%). Reduced platform maintenance burden by retiring deprecated pipelines, routes/endpoints, and legacy lambdas (shrank maintenance surface ~20%). Set up end-to-end local development experience for Files API (database, shared SQS/OpenSearch, Java hot-swa
Sr Java Full Stack Developer at Verizon
January 1, 2024 - November 1, 2024
Worked on the Troubleshooting team enabling users to login to verizon.com to resolve device/service issues. Created an optimized resolution flow using whitelist groups to reduce irrelevant suggestions (~30%). Built Kibana dashboards to visualize user counts, issue trends, resolutions, error volume, and page traffic; reduced issue-diagnosis time for support leads by ~40%. Led CI/CD pipeline design and implementation with Jenkins to automate build/test/deploy (cut deployment time ~50% and increased release frequency ~2x). Integrated code-quality tooling (e.g., SonarQube) to reduce production bugs reaching release (~20%). Performed API testing with Postman for endpoint validation and functionality.
Sr Java Developer at Nordstrom
May 1, 2022 - December 1, 2023
On the product ingestion team, ingested supplier data (e.g., from Nike), processed it for enhancement/validation, and stored results in AWS DynamoDB for downstream consumption. Implemented reprocessing of DLQ objects and Kafka topic writing via scheduler; recovered ~95% of failed messages automatically and reduced manual recovery effort by ~80%. Managed on-call rotation during Nordstrom sale events, resolving/acknowledging 100+ production alerts with zero missed SLAs. Delivered stakeholder quick-wins and stability improvements, reducing recurring stability incidents by ~25% quarter over quarter. Used Agile/Scrum practices with JIRA for sprint planning, defect tracking, and test case management.
Software Engineer at Wayfair
August 1, 2019 - May 1, 2022
Enhanced and maintained Delphi, Wayfair’s pricing calculation engine. Built/owned parts of an Experiment Service microservice enabling data scientists to run pricing experiments, enabling ~3x more experiments per quarter and supporting an estimated ~5% revenue lift. Developed Slack integration by hosting scheduled Python scripts (via Kronos) that call endpoints and post Hubot messages into specific channels; automated a previously manual reporting process saving ~5 hours/week. Implemented Kafka producer/consumer logic to move data from source to destination, including round-robin reading, improving data-processing throughput ~35%. Managed on-call rotations during peak seasons (Thanksgiving/Christmas/peak sale) maintaining ~99.9% uptime through Black Friday/Cyber Monday (~4x normal traffic). Deployed and managed Delphi on Kubernetes (scaled pods using kubectl).
Java Full Stack Engineer at Verizon
November 1, 2018 - August 1, 2019
Built JSP forms and integrated them into an existing Struts-based codebase. Designed and developed Java REST APIs to store and retrieve user feedback/log details in Oracle SQL. Migrated a service from C# to Java to improve scalability and fault tolerance, reducing downtime by ~30%. Developed Spring Boot/Spring Data REST services and supported microservices architecture (Spring Boot, Docker). Worked with API/service development and related tooling.
Software Engineer at Tuutkia
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2018
Java Developer at Target India
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2015

Education

Master’s in Computer Engineering at San Jose State University
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019
Bachelor’s in Information Science at VTU, Bangalore
January 1, 2010 - January 1, 2014

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Retail, Telecommunications, Other