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Hi, I’m Likhita Katakam, a Senior Java Full Stack Developer with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting enterprise-scale applications across financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, and technology domains. I specialize in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, React, Angular, Kafka, MongoDB, and cloud-native architectures, delivering scalable distributed systems in Agile environments. I thrive in collaborative teams, modernizing legacy systems, implementing cloud-native solutions, and building event-driven architectures. I love partnering with product owners, QA, and DevOps to ship reliable software while ensuring security, performance, and compliance.…Hi, I’m Likhita Katakam, a Senior Java Full Stack Developer with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting enterprise-scale applications across financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, and technology domains. I specialize in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, React, Angular, Kafka, MongoDB, and cloud-native architectures, delivering scalable distributed systems in Agile environments. I thrive in collaborative teams, modernizing legacy systems, implementing cloud-native solutions, and building event-driven architectures. I love partnering with product owners, QA, and DevOps to ship reliable software while ensuring security, performance, and compliance.

Likhita Katakam

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

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Hi, I’m Likhita Katakam, a Senior Java Full Stack Developer with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting enterprise-scale applications across financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, and technology domains. I specialize in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, React, Angular, Kafka, MongoDB, and cloud-native architectures, delivering scalable distributed systems in Agile environments. I thrive in collaborative teams, modernizing legacy systems, implementing cloud-native solutions, and building event-driven architectures. I love partnering with product owners, QA, and DevOps to ship reliable software while ensuring security, performance, and compliance.…Hi, I’m Likhita Katakam, a Senior Java Full Stack Developer with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting enterprise-scale applications across financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, and technology domains. I specialize in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, React, Angular, Kafka, MongoDB, and cloud-native architectures, delivering scalable distributed systems in Agile environments. I thrive in collaborative teams, modernizing legacy systems, implementing cloud-native solutions, and building event-driven architectures. I love partnering with product owners, QA, and DevOps to ship reliable software while ensuring security, performance, and compliance.

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Hi, I’m Likhita Katakam, a Senior Java Full Stack Developer with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting enterprise-scale applications across financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, and technology domains. I specialize in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, React, Angular, Kafka, MongoDB, and cloud-native architectures, delivering scalable distributed systems in Agile environments.

I thrive in collaborative teams, modernizing legacy systems, implementing cloud-native solutions, and building event-driven architectures. I love partnering with product owners, QA, and DevOps to ship reliable software while ensuring security, performance, and compliance.

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Senior Full Stack Developer at Northern Trust

November 1, 2023 - Present

Led modernization of a legacy collections platform by migrating JSF applications to React and Spring Boot microservices, improving maintainability and feature delivery while ensuring PCI-DSS and SOX compliance. Implemented AI-assisted code conversion tools and validation workflows, reducing manual migration effort by 40%. Built responsive React components and Redux-driven UI for collections workflows, and implemented RESTful APIs with Spring Boot and MongoDB. Created Kafka-based event-driven integrations with custom filters and consumer groups for reliable messaging, including offset management. Containerized apps with Docker and deployed to OpenShift/Kubernetes with health checks and autoscaling. Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, Git, and Terraform. Enforced authentication/authorization with Spring Security, OAuth 2.0, and JWT in line with GLBA and SOX controls.

Senior Full Stack Developer at Humana

January 1, 2021 - October 1, 2023

Developed Spring Boot microservices for healthcare billing, payment reconciliation, and patient account management. Led frontend modernization by migrating legacy UIs to React. Designed Kafka-based event processing for claims and payments, with HIPAA-compliant audit trails stored in MongoDB. Implemented secure REST APIs and token-based authentication with data masking for HIPAA compliance. Deployed on Azure AKS and OpenShift with auto-scaling; established centralized logging and monitoring using the ELK stack. Strengthened automated testing with JUnit, Mockito, Cypress, and SonarQube; automated builds with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions; infrastructure managed with Ansible.

Java Full Stack Developer at T-Mobile

March 1, 2018 - December 1, 2020

Developed enterprise billing and customer account management applications processing millions of telecom accounts daily. Built RESTful APIs and backend services with MongoDB for metadata and payment history. Implemented Kafka producers/consumers for event-driven messaging across distributed services. Deployed on GCP Cloud Run, GKE, and OpenShift with auto-scaling. Designed GraphQL and REST APIs, integrated OSS/BSS workflows, and implemented centralized logging with Splunk.

Java Full Stack Developer at ADP

February 1, 2017 - February 1, 2018

Developed workforce management applications using Java 8, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and React. Implemented RabbitMQ messaging and Redis caching for session handling. Built REST APIs and service orchestration using Spring Cloud Gateway. Created cloud-native apps on AWS (API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, CDK, Elastic Beanstalk) and containerized deployments with Docker and Kubernetes. Implemented monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK; secured services with OAuth 2.0; automated deployments with Jenkins and Git; Helm-based packaging for deployments.

Java Developer at Innomonds

June 1, 2015 - December 1, 2016

Developed enterprise Java applications using Spring MVC, Hibernate, Oracle, and Angular. Built responsive UIs with Angular and JavaScript. Implemented secure authentication/authorization with Spring Security. Automated testing and CI/CD with Jenkins and SonarQube; containerized components with Docker and Kubernetes; deployed on Azure VMs; monitored with ELK Stack. Contributed to OSS/BSS integration projects and REST/messaging for order management networks.