I’m Kamal Koushik Narjala, a Software Engineer with 4 years of experience building scalable microservices, cloud-native applications, and distributed systems across healthcare and virtualization domains. I specialize in Java, Python, Spring Boot, React, Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS, with a strong focus on backend engineering, system design, automation, and performance optimization. I have worked on enterprise platforms at CVS Health and VMware, where I developed secure, high-performance solutions, improved system reliability, and automated complex workflows. I enjoy solving challenging engineering problems, designing maintainable architectures, and delivering products that create measurable business impact. What sets me apart is my ability to work across the full stack, combine strong software engineering fundamentals with modern AI technologies, and quickly adapt to new challenges while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.

Kamal Koushik Narjala

I’m Kamal Koushik Narjala, a Software Engineer with 4 years of experience building scalable microservices, cloud-native applications, and distributed systems across healthcare and virtualization domains. I specialize in Java, Python, Spring Boot, React, Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS, with a strong focus on backend engineering, system design, automation, and performance optimization. I have worked on enterprise platforms at CVS Health and VMware, where I developed secure, high-performance solutions, improved system reliability, and automated complex workflows. I enjoy solving challenging engineering problems, designing maintainable architectures, and delivering products that create measurable business impact. What sets me apart is my ability to work across the full stack, combine strong software engineering fundamentals with modern AI technologies, and quickly adapt to new challenges while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.

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I’m Kamal Koushik Narjala, a Software Engineer with 4 years of experience building scalable microservices, cloud-native applications, and distributed systems across healthcare and virtualization domains. I specialize in Java, Python, Spring Boot, React, Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS, with a strong focus on backend engineering, system design, automation, and performance optimization.

I have worked on enterprise platforms at CVS Health and VMware, where I developed secure, high-performance solutions, improved system reliability, and automated complex workflows. I enjoy solving challenging engineering problems, designing maintainable architectures, and delivering products that create measurable business impact.

What sets me apart is my ability to work across the full stack, combine strong software engineering fundamentals with modern AI technologies, and quickly adapt to new challenges while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.

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Language

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Work Experience

Software Engineer at CVS Health
July 1, 2025 - November 8, 2025
Contributing to the Health Tech Ecosystem Platform, designing and implementing scalable, secure cloud-native services. Developed and optimized backend APIs using Node.js, FastAPI, and GraphQL, ensuring compliance with healthcare standards such as FHIR and HIPAA. Built modular, responsive frontend components in Next.js with Tailwind CSS, enhancing patient and provider portal usability. Integrated cloud solutions on AWS (Lambda, S3, EC2) with automated pipelines via GitHub Actions and Docker, reducing deployment cycles by 40%. Implemented robust authentication and authorization models with OAuth 2.0, JWT, and RBAC, strengthening data security and patient privacy.
Software Engineer at VMware
July 1, 2023 - July 1, 2023
Engineered core features of Harbor (Enterprise Container Registry), enhancing container security and compliance for enterprise-scale Kubernetes deployments. Developed microservices in Java and Go, implementing image replication, scanning, and lifecycle management to support global-scale DevOps teams. Integrated RBAC and OAuth 2.0/JWT authentication, strengthening registry security and meeting enterprise compliance standards. Built RESTful APIs with Spring Boot and Express.js, enabling seamless integration between Harbor and external CI/CD pipelines. Improved container vulnerability scanning workflows using Clair and Trivy, reducing security exposure windows by 35%. Optimized database performance with PostgreSQL and MySQL, achieving faster metadata queries and reducing registry latency under heavy workloads. Automated deployment and scaling on Kubernetes and Docker, leveraging Helm charts for consistent environment provisioning. Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Action
Software Engineer at VMware
January 1, 2020 - July 1, 2023
Built foundational services for the Elastic Cloud Governance Platform, developing Java Spring Boot modules to automate configuration management across virtualized environments. Implemented message-driven workflows using Kafka to enable reliable event propagation and reduce cross-service synchronization time by 24%. Designed RESTful and GraphQL APIs with Swagger documentation for internal and customer-facing integrations. Optimized data persistence with PostgreSQL and Redis using indexing, sharding, and caching patterns. Containerized workloads with Docker and orchestrated distributed services using Kubernetes to standardize rollout/rollback across clusters. Developed CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions including static analysis and automated tests. Strengthened security with OAuth2, JWT, and TLS encryption and role-based permissions. Improved reliability using benchmarking, distributed tracing, and fault-injection testing, and codified infrastructure automation with Terrafo

Education

Master in Management Information Systems at California State University, Long Beach
August 1, 2023 - May 1, 2025
Master in Management Information Systems at California State University, Long Beach
August 1, 2023 - May 1, 2025

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Industry Experience

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