# Meenakshi ravikumar

Meenakshi ravikumar is a remote worker on Himalayas, Lead Software Engineer at Freshworks, based in India.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@meenakshiravikumar

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Lead Software Engineer at Freshworks who delivered a survey feature adopted by 500+ enterprise customers.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | India |
| Authorized to work in | India |
| Salary expectations | 140k+ INR |
| Job categories | Software Engineer, Backend Engineer |
| Skills | Backend Development, Distributed Systems, Microservices, System Design, REST APIs, API Design, Event Driven Architecture, Performance Optimization, Java, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring WebFlux (Reactive), Struts, Cassandra, MySQL |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/meenakshi-ravikumar-65479996 |

## About

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At Freshworks, I led architecture and delivery of a transactional survey feature adopted by 500+ enterprise customers, using Kafka-based event coordination for strong consistency.

I also led a zero-downtime Cassandra migration of 5M+ records and reduced template rendering latency by about 40%. At PayPal, I built a related transactions service handling 50K+ queries per day with p99 latency under 200ms.
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## Experience

### Lead Software Engineer (current)

[Freshworks](https://himalayas.app/companies/freshworks). Jul 2022 - Present

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Led architecture and delivery of a transactional survey feature adopted by 500+ enterprise customers, ensuring strong consistency using Kafka-based event coordination. Spearheaded a cross-shard NoSQL (Cassandra) data migration with zero downtime, migrating 5M+ records while maintaining data integrity under live production traffic.
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Skills: Java, Spring-Boot, Cassandra, REST-APIs, AWS, S3, Amazon-SQS, Kafka, Docker, CI-CD, Microservices

### Software Engineer II

[PayPal](https://himalayas.app/companies/paypal). Jun 2021 - Jul 2022

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Built the related transactions retrieval service orchestrating calls across 8+ microservices; handles 50K+ queries/day with p99 latency under 200ms. Implemented reactive programming with Spring WebFlux and non-blocking I/O to handle high-concurrency financial queries.
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Skills: Java, Spring-Boot, Spring-WebFlux-(Reactive), SQL, REST-APIs, Reactive-Programming, Microservices, Unit-Testing

### Member Technical Staff

Zoho. Feb 2017 - May 2021

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Architected the Time Tracking module; feature contributed to a 20% improvement in SLA adherence metrics. Built Bulk Update functionality for batch operations on 10,000+ tickets, cutting agent repetitive work by 60%.
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Skills: Java, Struts, MySQL, REST-APIs, System-Design, Unit-Testing

### Associate Software Engineer

Caterpillar Inc.. Jun 2015 - Jan 2017

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Built a real-time telemetry ingestion pipeline processing sensor streams from 10,000+ machines; developed dashboards for health monitoring across 5 regions.
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Skills: Java, Spring-Boot, MySQL, REST-APIs

## Education

### Vellore Institute of Technology

Master of Science, Software Engineering. 2010 - 2015. Grade: 9.2/10

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Pursued a Master of Science in Software Engineering, achieving a GPA of 9.2 out of 10.
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## Tech stack

- Amazon S3
- MySQL
- Cassandra
- Spring Boot
- Spring MVC
- Redis
- Java
- Amazon SQS
- Docker
- SQL
- Apache Kafka
- AWS

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