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Hi, I’m Sarala Sharanappa Kanakagiri, a software engineer with over 3 years of experience building scalable full-stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, and AWS. I excel at designing resilient microservices, optimizing performance in low-latency distributed systems, and delivering reliable CI/CD pipelines that help teams achieve high uptime. I’ve led end-to-end feature delivery in Agile environments at Harman, Rakuten India, and Bright Mind, building web and mobile solutions, architecting microservices, and enabling better operational visibility through analytics and monitoring. I’m passionate about collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship high-quality software that solves real-world problems and supports critical outreach work.…Hi, I’m Sarala Sharanappa Kanakagiri, a software engineer with over 3 years of experience building scalable full-stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, and AWS. I excel at designing resilient microservices, optimizing performance in low-latency distributed systems, and delivering reliable CI/CD pipelines that help teams achieve high uptime. I’ve led end-to-end feature delivery in Agile environments at Harman, Rakuten India, and Bright Mind, building web and mobile solutions, architecting microservices, and enabling better operational visibility through analytics and monitoring. I’m passionate about collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship high-quality software that solves real-world problems and supports critical outreach work.

Sarala Sharanappa Kanakagiri

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Front-End Developer, +2

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Hi, I’m Sarala Sharanappa Kanakagiri, a software engineer with over 3 years of experience building scalable full-stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, and AWS. I excel at designing resilient microservices, optimizing performance in low-latency distributed systems, and delivering reliable CI/CD pipelines that help teams achieve high uptime. I’ve led end-to-end feature delivery in Agile environments at Harman, Rakuten India, and Bright Mind, building web and mobile solutions, architecting microservices, and enabling better operational visibility through analytics and monitoring. I’m passionate about collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship high-quality software that solves real-world problems and supports critical outreach work.…Hi, I’m Sarala Sharanappa Kanakagiri, a software engineer with over 3 years of experience building scalable full-stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, and AWS. I excel at designing resilient microservices, optimizing performance in low-latency distributed systems, and delivering reliable CI/CD pipelines that help teams achieve high uptime. I’ve led end-to-end feature delivery in Agile environments at Harman, Rakuten India, and Bright Mind, building web and mobile solutions, architecting microservices, and enabling better operational visibility through analytics and monitoring. I’m passionate about collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship high-quality software that solves real-world problems and supports critical outreach work.

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Hi, I’m Sarala Sharanappa Kanakagiri, a software engineer with over 3 years of experience building scalable full-stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, and AWS. I excel at designing resilient microservices, optimizing performance in low-latency distributed systems, and delivering reliable CI/CD pipelines that help teams achieve high uptime.

I’ve led end-to-end feature delivery in Agile environments at Harman, Rakuten India, and Bright Mind, building web and mobile solutions, architecting microservices, and enabling better operational visibility through analytics and monitoring. I’m passionate about collaborating with cross-functional teams to ship high-quality software that solves real-world problems and supports critical outreach work.

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Software Engineer at Bright Mind Enrichment and Schooling

July 1, 2025 - Present

Developing Street Care, an Android application enabling volunteers to log real-time interactions with unhoused individuals and coordinate aid requests such as food, shelter, and medical assistance. Designed secure data capture workflows using Kotlin, Firebase/Firestore, and role-based access controls, ensuring privacy and reliable tracking of sensitive outreach data. Implemented AI-assisted text categorization using NLP techniques to automatically tag volunteer interaction notes and prioritize urgent service requests. Built offline-first interaction logging, background synchronization, and analytics dashboards, improving coordination and operational visibility for outreach teams.

Software Engineer at Harman International

October 1, 2020 - August 1, 2023

Built end-to-end full-stack features using React, TypeScript, Kotlin (Android), and Spring Boot, integrating REST/gRPC APIs with JWT authentication and AWS API Gateway for secure, scalable navigation workflows. Architected event-driven Java microservices on AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda) with Kafka-based asynchronous processing, improving throughput 40% through horizontal scaling and resilient design. Designed Redis caching and optimized Hibernate/JPA REST APIs by eliminating N+1 queries and tuning pools, reducing latency 50% and achieving sub-100ms SLAs. Developed dynamic frontend components for web application development with efficient state synchronization and defined scalable REST API contracts between UI and distributed backend services. Implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Jenkins in a Linux environment and established monitoring with CloudWatch and Prometheus, sustaining 99.9% SLA in Agile on-call rotation.

Full-Stack Intern at Rakuten India

January 1, 2020 - June 1, 2020

Built and shipped production-ready marketing automation POC for web application development using React, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, designing customer journey workflows for targeted campaigns on Rakuten Ichiba. Designed and optimized relational data models and Spring JPA queries as part of software development, improving processing time 45% and increasing throughput 30% for high-volume user segmentation. Generated 1M synthetic user records via Spring Batch (PostgreSQL → MongoDB) in collaboration with data scientists to support machine learning model testing without impacting production data.