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Hi, I'm Lavanya Ponakala, a Senior Java Developer with 12+ years of experience building secure, high-performance backend systems across banking, state, and healthcare domains. I design robust microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems using Java, Spring, and cloud platforms, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and production readiness. I enjoy shaping backend architectures that are secure, observable, and maintainable. I thrive in cross-functional teams, love solving complex problems, and continuously optimize performance with modern tools and patterns such as Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.…Hi, I'm Lavanya Ponakala, a Senior Java Developer with 12+ years of experience building secure, high-performance backend systems across banking, state, and healthcare domains. I design robust microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems using Java, Spring, and cloud platforms, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and production readiness. I enjoy shaping backend architectures that are secure, observable, and maintainable. I thrive in cross-functional teams, love solving complex problems, and continuously optimize performance with modern tools and patterns such as Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

Lavanya Ponakala

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

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Hi, I'm Lavanya Ponakala, a Senior Java Developer with 12+ years of experience building secure, high-performance backend systems across banking, state, and healthcare domains. I design robust microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems using Java, Spring, and cloud platforms, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and production readiness. I enjoy shaping backend architectures that are secure, observable, and maintainable. I thrive in cross-functional teams, love solving complex problems, and continuously optimize performance with modern tools and patterns such as Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.…Hi, I'm Lavanya Ponakala, a Senior Java Developer with 12+ years of experience building secure, high-performance backend systems across banking, state, and healthcare domains. I design robust microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems using Java, Spring, and cloud platforms, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and production readiness. I enjoy shaping backend architectures that are secure, observable, and maintainable. I thrive in cross-functional teams, love solving complex problems, and continuously optimize performance with modern tools and patterns such as Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

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Hi, I’m Lavanya Ponakala, a Senior Java Developer with 12+ years of experience building secure, high-performance backend systems across banking, state, and healthcare domains. I design robust microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems using Java, Spring, and cloud platforms, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and production readiness.

I enjoy shaping backend architectures that are secure, observable, and maintainable. I thrive in cross-functional teams, love solving complex problems, and continuously optimize performance with modern tools and patterns such as Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

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Work Experience

Sr. Java Developer at First Citizens Bank

November 1, 2023 - Present

Designed secure, high-availability backend services using Java and Spring Boot to support core banking and customer-facing applications. Implemented RESTful APIs with Oracle, secured endpoints with OAuth 2.0 and JWT, and built event-driven processing with Apache Kafka. Enhanced observability with Splunk and built high-performance, thread-safe components using Java 17. Optimized SQL/PL-SQL, implemented caching with Redis, and applied resilience patterns (Circuit Breaker, Retry, Bulkhead, Rate Limiting) using Resilience4j. Deployed on AWS (EC2/S3/RDS) with Kubernetes blue-green/canary strategies and integrated monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry.

Sr. Java Application Engineer at State of New York

June 1, 2022 - October 1, 2023

Designed and developed scalable Java/Spring Boot services exposing REST APIs, with secure authentication via Spring Security, OAuth 2.0, and JWT. Built high-throughput messaging using Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ; optimized Oracle SQL/PL/SQL and implemented Redis caching. Enabled zero-downtime deployments with Kubernetes and modeled NoSQL data with MongoDB and Cassandra. Implemented Kafka Streams and data pipelines for analytics; supported production with RESTful and event-driven architectures.

Sr. Java Developer at Gainwell Technologies

October 1, 2019 - December 1, 2021

Developed and refactored Java backend code, implementing Spring DI/IoC and enterprise patterns. Built REST and SOAP services; secured with Spring Security. Developed controllers, services, DAOs, and Hibernate entities; tuned Oracle and Cassandra data models; managed Kafka clusters; implemented Redis/Ehcache caching. Containerized with Docker and deployed on Kubernetes (EKS); API docs with Swagger/OpenAPI; integrated ELK, AppDynamics, and Prometheus/Grafana for monitoring. Built data pipelines on AWS with CodePipeline/CodeBuild; provided production support.

Java Full stack Developer at Spicejet

June 1, 2017 - August 1, 2019

Engineered reactive microservices with Spring WebFlux and Java 8, built event-driven pipelines with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka. Implemented secure REST APIs with OAuth2/JWT; automated ETL with Spring Batch; optimized JVM performance. Deployed on AWS (ECS/EC2/Elastic Beanstalk) and leveraged serverless components (Lambda). Configured centralized externalized config with Spring Cloud Config; added Prometheus/Grafana for observability; CI/CD with Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Sr. Java Developer at ValueLabs/ING Group - Netherlands

August 1, 2016 - May 1, 2017

Architected scalable microservices with Spring Boot, J2EE, Docker, and Kubernetes; built event-driven systems with Apache Kafka; modernized legacy apps with Angular/React UI; implemented RESTful APIs with Spring MVC; containerized with Docker; deployed on Azure App Service and Azure SQL; automated tests with JUnit/Mockito; monitoring with ELK; CI/CD practices and DevOps collaboration for reliable releases.

Sr. Java Developer at ValueLabs (Internal)

May 1, 2014 - August 1, 2016

Led backend services development with Spring Boot, Hibernate, and PostgreSQL; designed REST APIs; built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Maven, and GitHub; containerized with Docker and orchestrated with Kubernetes; implemented NoSQL models using MongoDB; bridged Java 8 to Java 11/Scala microservices and integrated GraphQL; modernized frontend using Angular/React; implemented centralized logging and monitoring with Splunk/AppDynamics; supported AWS deployments.