Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native enterprise applications and scalable REST APIs using Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and modern JavaScript. Strong background in AWS migration, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, and delivering CI/CD pipelines for large engineering teams. Hands-on with AI developer productivity tooling and integrations (Amazon Q, GitHub Copilot, GitLab Duo, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude), including RAG pipelines and agentic AI workflows for accelerating development, improving code review, and surfacing internal knowledge from enterprise systems.

Utshav Tiwari

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native enterprise applications and scalable REST APIs using Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and modern JavaScript. Strong background in AWS migration, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, and delivering CI/CD pipelines for large engineering teams. Hands-on with AI developer productivity tooling and integrations (Amazon Q, GitHub Copilot, GitLab Duo, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude), including RAG pipelines and agentic AI workflows for accelerating development, improving code review, and surfacing internal knowledge from enterprise systems.

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Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native enterprise applications and scalable REST APIs using Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and modern JavaScript. Strong background in AWS migration, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, and delivering CI/CD pipelines for large engineering teams.

Hands-on with AI developer productivity tooling and integrations (Amazon Q, GitHub Copilot, GitLab Duo, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude), including RAG pipelines and agentic AI workflows for accelerating development, improving code review, and surfacing internal knowledge from enterprise systems.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Developer at Southwest Airlines
January 1, 2021 - Present
Led full-stack development across multiple loyalty, payments, and marketing platforms, including Chase credit card integration, Cash + Points hybrid payments, promo code redemption enhancements, and personalized referral URL sharing for loyalty members. Architected and delivered enterprise REST APIs and back-end services using Spring Framework with Oracle DB and Gemfire caching. Championed AI-assisted development using Amazon Q, GitHub Copilot, and GitLab Duo, and built AI-powered code review automation to flag security/style issues pre-merge. Owned AWS migration efforts and Terraform adoption by replacing 40+ CloudFormation templates with modular IaC, provisioning Lambda/VPC/RDS/EC2/S3/IAM/API Gateway with remote state management. Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and AWS, integrated security/compliance scanning (Snyk, Veracode, Checkov, Trivy), and automated governance workflows through ServiceNow.
Software Developer at American Airlines
October 1, 2018 - January 1, 2021
Contributed to the TESS program to migrate enterprise fleets to end-state systems and harmonize business processes. Built enterprise supply chain Java REST/SOA/microservices interfacing with a mainframe SCEPTRE system, delivered SOAP services for cross-business communications, and maintained SOAP client stubs. Participated in Agile planning and CI/CD using Jenkins, SonarQube, and Git. Converted a monolith to microservices using Spring Boot and 12-factor practices, deploying and scaling on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF). Implemented REST services, JPA/Hibernate data access, Swagger documentation automation, and comprehensive automated testing using JUnit/Mockito, Cucumber, Selenium, and performance testing tools.
Software Developer at BancFirst Corporation
January 1, 2017 - September 30, 2018
Designed and developed a Redelivery Maintenance System to process failed requests from external/vendor-managed applications with severity- and component-based front-end filtering. Led full-stack development using Struts, Spring, Angular/React, and REST/SOAP web services, including Spring Boot services for scheduled, one-time, and stored payment functionalities. Integrated authentication and security between UI and SOA layers using Base64 encoding and implemented robust exception handling with ControllerAdvice/ExceptionHandler. Migrated an on-prem application to AWS using CloudFormation and implemented CI/CD with Jenkins/SonarQube/Chef. Containerized services with Docker and added centralized logging and testing utilities. Authored stored procedures, Swagger configurations, and automated test suites using Groovy, SoapUI, and related tooling.

Education

Master of Science, Information Technology at University of the Cumberlands
January 1, 2020 - December 1, 2021
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at East Central University
January 1, 2012 - December 1, 2016

Qualifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
January 11, 2030 - August 3, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Education, Computers & Electronics