Hi, I’m Arun Gampala—a Full-Stack JavaScript Developer with 3+ years of experience building high-performance enterprise applications at MetLife and Amazon. I specialize in React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Express.js, and GraphQL, delivering scalable solutions and measurable performance gains across global platforms. I’m adept at cloud-native deployments on AWS (ECS) and AKS, with Docker and Jenkins CI/CD to ensure 99.8% availability. I enjoy turning ideas into production features, mentoring teammates, and collaborating with Product, QA, and Design to ship value efficiently.\n\nI lead features from concept to deployment, optimize backend and database operations, and advocate for robust testing with Cypress and Jest. I’m passionate about clean architecture, performance optimization, and cross-functional collaboration.

Arun Gampala

Hi, I’m Arun Gampala—a Full-Stack JavaScript Developer with 3+ years of experience building high-performance enterprise applications at MetLife and Amazon. I specialize in React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Express.js, and GraphQL, delivering scalable solutions and measurable performance gains across global platforms. I’m adept at cloud-native deployments on AWS (ECS) and AKS, with Docker and Jenkins CI/CD to ensure 99.8% availability. I enjoy turning ideas into production features, mentoring teammates, and collaborating with Product, QA, and Design to ship value efficiently.\n\nI lead features from concept to deployment, optimize backend and database operations, and advocate for robust testing with Cypress and Jest. I’m passionate about clean architecture, performance optimization, and cross-functional collaboration.

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Hi, I’m Arun Gampala—a Full-Stack JavaScript Developer with 3+ years of experience building high-performance enterprise applications at MetLife and Amazon. I specialize in React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Express.js, and GraphQL, delivering scalable solutions and measurable performance gains across global platforms. I’m adept at cloud-native deployments on AWS (ECS) and AKS, with Docker and Jenkins CI/CD to ensure 99.8% availability. I enjoy turning ideas into production features, mentoring teammates, and collaborating with Product, QA, and Design to ship value efficiently.\n\nI lead features from concept to deployment, optimize backend and database operations, and advocate for robust testing with Cypress and Jest. I’m passionate about clean architecture, performance optimization, and cross-functional collaboration.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Full-Stack JavaScript Developer at MetLife
January 1, 2025 - Present
Built and maintained customer-facing React interfaces using Redux Toolkit and TypeScript; developed resilient Node.js/Express microservices with GraphQL APIs for real-time claim data, reducing data fetch latency. Migrated crucial claim history records to PostgreSQL and Redis, reducing query latency from 2.4s to 1.1s. Implemented automated CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins, Docker, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), decreasing release time and maintaining 99.8% production availability. Designed and executed Cypress and Jest test suites across the platform, achieving 75% code coverage and lowering post-deployment bugs by 30%. Collaborated with Product, QA, and Design in an Agile framework to deliver features on-time.
Full-Stack JavaScript Developer at Amazon
August 1, 2020 - May 1, 2023
Engineered scalable React and TypeScript components; implemented Node.js microservices with GraphQL to handle over 2M daily seller requests, reducing backend latency by 33%. Optimized DynamoDB performance with a Redis caching layer, lowering average response times by 40%. Managed deployment lifecycles with Jenkins pipelines on AWS ECS, reducing release cadence from three weeks to one week. Established system monitoring with CloudWatch and ELK dashboards, achieving 99.85% reliability and reducing incident resolution time by 22%. Provided technical guidance to junior developers and supported cross-functional Agile teams to deliver 79% of features on schedule.

Education

Masters in Computers and Information Sciences at Southern Arkansas University
August 1, 2023 - May 1, 2025

Qualifications

IBM Full Stack JavaScript Developer Professional Certificate
January 11, 2030 - December 2, 2025
Udacity Full Stack JavaScript Developer Nanodegree
January 11, 2030 - December 2, 2025
OpenJS Node.js Application Developer
January 11, 2030 - December 2, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services