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anish guru

@anishguru

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Senior software engineer building scalable Java microservices on AWS.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to build production-grade Java microservices on AWS, owning architecture and event-driven designs (Kafka), strengthening API security and reliability, and improving delivery through CI/CD, testing, and performance engineering in Agile teams.

I’m an accomplished Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years designing and delivering high-performance, scalable enterprise applications across banking and media domains. I specialize in Java 17, Spring Boot, and microservices—especially RESTful APIs with JWT/OAuth2 authentication—and I bring strong system design ownership (HLD/LLD) with clear, defendable architecture decisions.

In my recent role, I led a full architectural migration from legacy MQ to Apache Kafka, designing an event-driven backbone that reduced message-processing latency by ~40% and secured Principal-level sign-off within a single sprint cycle. I also improved production reliability and delivery speed through security hardening, targeted caching, and JVM profiling (cutting production defects by ~30% and reducing testing cycles by 60%), plus faster CI/CD pipelines (25%) via structured logging, distributed tracing, and K6 performance testing in Agile workflows.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

NatWest Group

Dec 2024 - Present (1 year 6 months)

Led architectural migration from legacy MQ to Apache Kafka, designing an event-driven backbone across 4 microservices and reducing message-processing latency by ~40%. Implemented JWT authentication with Spring Security, Caffeine caching with domain eviction, and AWS Cloud Config integration, improving security incident outcomes and reducing deployment-related downtime by ~90%.

Apache Kafka Spring Security JWT Spring Boot Caffeine Cache AWS Cloud Config Docker Podman JVM Profiling Distributed Tracing

Software Development Engineer II

Comcast Engineering Centre

Apr 2022 - Nov 2024 (2 years 7 months)

Designed and built modular backend frameworks for IVR and Chatbot platforms using Spring Boot, Cucumber, and REST Assured, reducing regression cycle time by 45%. Developed secure REST APIs across 10+ microservices with JWT authentication, contributing to ~30% reduction in production defects over two quarters.

Java Spring Boot REST API Design JWT Authentication Cucumber Rest Assured Microservices SOLID Agile Delivery

Associate Software Engineer

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Sep 2018 - Apr 2022 (3 years 7 months)

Built Java and Cucumber API automation frameworks for REST validation, reducing testing cycles by 60% across 3 concurrent Agile delivery teams. Streamlined CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Docker (bi-weekly to weekly releases) while developing Selenium WebDriver suites covering 200+ UI scenarios to cut manual QA effort by 50%.

Selenium Webdriver Java Cucumber REST API Testing Jenkins Docker AWS S3 DynamoDB Amazon MSK (Kafka)CI CD

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College

Bachelors in Engineering, Electronics and Communication

2014 - 2018

Grade: 3.2

Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering

Grade: 7.19 / 10.0

Earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication Engineering at Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, graduating in May 2018. CGPA: 7.19/10.0.