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Swaroopa Baggu

@swaroopabaggu

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Senior software engineer specializing in secure cloud-native microservices for banking, IAM, and payments.

Zimbabwe

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to build and secure cloud-native backend systems with microservices, Kafka-driven reliability, and IAM/payment integrations—delivering measurable availability, lower MTTR, and clean CI/CD with strong observability and quality gates.

I’m a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, developing, and optimizing large-scale, secure, cloud-native backend systems across banking, government, payments, and identity & access (IAM). I specialize in microservices architecture, distributed systems, data engineering, event-driven services, and DevOps automation.

I’ve built high-performance backend services using Java (7/8/11/17/21), Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and JPA/Hibernate, delivering REST and GraphQL capabilities for real, low-latency business outcomes. In production, I’ve improved system availability to 99.9%, reduced production incidents by 50%, and optimized API latency by 35%.

My work focuses heavily on resiliency and security: circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, centralized logging/tracing, and robust authentication/authorization using SAML, OAuth2/OIDC, MFA, and JWT lifecycle management. I’ve implemented idempotent payment APIs to prevent duplicate transactions and designed secure payment processing flows covering initiation, validation, and status tracking.

I also bring strong platform and engineering discipline—container-first delivery (Docker, Kubernetes), event-driven architectures with Apache Kafka (DLQ, schema registry, idempotent consumers), and CI/CD automation with Jenkins and quality gates (SonarQube/OWASP). I mentor teams and modernize legacy systems by breaking monoliths into microservices, integrating API gateways, and migrating to AWS/Azure cloud-native stacks.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Systems Engineer

Current

Wells Fargo

Mar 2024 - Present (2 years 3 months)

Designed and developed cloud-native IAM and cybersecurity microservices using Java 17, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and JPA to support scalable, fault-tolerant banking systems. Implemented Kafka-based event-driven workflows and SSO (SAML 2.0), improving access certification outcomes by 45% and cutting audit remediation effort by 50%; reduced manual provisioning errors by 60% and MTTR by 25% through

Spring Boot Spring Cloud JPA Apache Kafka SAML Kubernetes AWS

Senior Systems Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Apr 2021 - Mar 2024 (2 years 11 months)

Built and maintained enterprise microservices backend services in Java (8/11) using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud for scalable, resilient government platforms. Developed REST APIs with Spring MVC, implemented OAuth2/OIDC JWT security with RBAC, delivered containerized deployments on AWS with CI/CD, and engineered Kafka-based event-driven workflows with DLQ and retry handling.

Java Spring Boot Spring Cloud Spring Security AWS REST APIs Apache Kafka MongoDB Docker Kubernetes

Application Programmer Analyst

Wells Fargo

Dec 2018 - Mar 2021 (2 years 3 months)

Designed and developed PCI-compliant backend systems using Spring Boot and domain-driven microservices, migrating legacy monolith components to improve maintainability and release frequency. Implemented REST APIs with contract-first OpenAPI governance, hardened resiliency with Resilience4j, and built event-driven processing with Kafka (topics/partitions, DLQ, idempotent consumers) and containerize

Java Spring Boot Resilience4j Apache Kafka MongoDB Docker Kubernetes

Senior Systems Engineer

Infosys Pvt Ltd

Sep 2015 - Dec 2018 (3 years 3 months)

Developed member and claims microservices with Java 8 and Spring Boot, standardizing API contracts, validation, and centralized exception handling. Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and deployed services on Azure with Docker, integrating Swagger/OpenAPI documentation, Kafka-based event workflows, Informatica ETL for data mapping, and ELK/SLF4J-based observability.

Java 8 Spring Boot OpenAPI Apache Kafka Docker CI CD Informatica ELK Stack