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Ravi Kiran Palavai

@ravikiranpalavai

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Java Full Stack Engineer building scalable Spring Boot and React solutions for customers.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I want to build reliable, scalable Java/Spring Boot and modern frontend systems with TDD, strong observability, and CI/CD automation. I’m excited to own performance tuning, event-driven features, and architecture decisions in Agile teams.

I’m a Java Full Stack Engineer with 6+ years of experience building scalable Java/J2EE (Spring Boot) applications and full-stack web solutions across financial and enterprise domains. In my current role, I designed Java/Spring Boot services for insurance platforms, cutting login errors by 30% and supporting 100K+ daily transactions with TDD-focused delivery, clear technical documentation, and cross-team alignment in Agile/Scrum.

I’ve consistently driven performance, reliability, and automation—refactoring Hibernate/JPA2 ORM interactions to reduce query times by 40%, and accelerating deployments with Maven/Gradle, Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins CI/CD (moving to three releases per week while reducing production incidents by 20%). Previously, I delivered banking and investment services by optimizing SQL and caching, implementing real-time Kafka/Spark pipelines to reduce fraud/risk latency, and strengthening observability with Prometheus/Grafana and ELK/Log4j—always with an emphasis on maintainable architecture and customer success.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Java Full Stack Engineer

Current

Jack Henry & Associates

Jun 2025 - Present (1 year)

Designed and implemented Java/Spring Boot services for life insurance and annuity platforms, reducing login errors by 30% while supporting 100K+ daily transactions. Refactored Hibernate/JPA2 ORM interactions to improve performance, cutting query times by 40% across 1M+ record datasets.

Java Spring Boot Angular React Hibernate PostgreSQL MongoDB Apache Kafka Docker Kubernetes

Java Full Stack Engineer

Truist Bank

Jun 2024 - May 2025 (11 months)

Delivered Java J2EE and Spring Boot REST services supporting banking operations for 500K+ customers. Optimized SQL and indexing to reduce transactional bottlenecks, improving processing speed up to 35% and lowering fraud detection latency from minutes to under 10 seconds using real-time Kafka/Spark pipelines.

Java J2EE Spring Boot REST APIs Oracle MySQL Apache Kafka Apache Spark Test Driven Development

Java Software Developer

Delphi Software House LLP

Jan 2021 - May 2023 (2 years 4 months)

Built and deployed Java/J2EE microservices on AWS Kubernetes for investment and asset-management platforms, enabling high-performance trading and portfolio services. Reduced Oracle SQL access latency by 40% via Hibernate/JPA tuning and Redis caching, and shortened risk report generation from hours to 15 minutes using Kafka/Spark streaming pipelines.

Java J2EE Spring Boot AWS Kubernetes Oracle Redis Apache Kafka Apache Spark

Associate Java Developer

HDFC Life Insurance

Dec 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year)

Developed Java/Spring Data backend services using Hibernate/JPA2 and SQL Server to improve claims processing performance for 500K+ policyholders. Implemented Kafka-based messaging for real-time policy event delivery, reducing notification delays from minutes to seconds and improving CI/CD release cycles from two weeks to five days.

Java Spring Data Hibernate SQL Server Apache Kafka Gitlab CI Docker Kubernetes