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Praveenkumar Sulikeri

@praveenkumarsulikeri

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Java-focused software engineer building resilient Kafka microservices for high-throughput, observable systems.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a backend role where I can build resilient, event-driven Java microservices with strong CI/CD and production observability—delivering measurable performance, reliability, and scalable distributed system design.

I’m a Software Engineer (Java) who engineered 5+ Spring Boot microservices and introduced Apache Kafka-based asynchronous event pipelines to reduce inter-service blocking by ~45%, supporting 40K–60K+ API requests per day. I validated performance using JMeter load testing and designed systems with a strong focus on reliability and throughput under peak traffic.

I’ve led resilience and performance improvements using Resilience4j retry and circuit breaker patterns (availability ~97% to ~99.5%), Redis caching, and MySQL schema/indexing/pagination optimizations (latency ~320 ms to ~140 ms). I also built Jenkins CI/CD pipelines with JUnit and Mockito (coverage ~80%, production defects ~30% lower) and implemented observability with Prometheus and Grafana, reducing mean time to detect incidents by ~35%—and I’m applying the same approach in my microservices projects for event-driven transaction processing and scalable expense tracking.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Software Engineer (Java)

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLP

Jan 2022 - Aug 2024 (2 years 7 months)

Engineered 5+ Spring Boot microservices and introduced Kafka-based asynchronous event pipelines, reducing inter-service blocking by ~45% and improving throughput to handle 40K–60K+ API requests/day. Implemented Resilience4j retry/circuit breakers, Redis caching and MySQL optimizations (latency ~320ms to ~140ms, ~55%), and delivered Jenkins CI/CD with JUnit/Mockito plus Prometheus/Grafana observabi