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Sr. Java Full Stack Developer @ Fifth third Bank

About

Senior Full-Stack Developer with 10+ years of experience building scalable, cloud-native applications across banking, healthcare, retail, and airline industries. Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, and modern frontend frameworks including React and Angular. Experienced in designing high-performance distributed systems, developing secure RESTful APIs and GraphQL services, implementing event-driven architectures, and delivering enterprise solutions that support millions of transactions while maintaining reliability, security, and compliance standards. Strong background in cloud technologies, CI/CD automation, containerization, and DevOps practices, with hands-on experience deploying and managing applications on AWS using ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS, and CloudFormation. Proven ability to optimize application performance, improve system scalability, and drive modernization initiatives through microservices and cloud migration strategies. Passionate about solving complex engineering challenges, mentoring teams, and building resilient software systems that create measurable business impact. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams in Agile environments and leading projects from architecture and design through deployment and production support. Core Expertise: Java • Spring Boot • Microservices • AWS • Kubernetes • Docker • Apache Kafka • REST APIs • GraphQL • PostgreSQL • MongoDB • React • Angular • CI/CD • Jenkins • GitHub Actions • Terraform • System Design • Distributed Systems • Cloud Architecture

Location

United States

Work experience

Java Full Stack Developer at Fifth Third Bank, May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, Working as a Senior Full-Stack Developer in the banking domain, building secure and scalable enterprise applications using Java 17, Spring Boot, Angular, PostgreSQL, AWS, and microservices architecture. Focused on developing RESTful APIs, GraphQL services, customer-facing banking portals, transaction workflows, fraud monitoring, and cloud-native deployments. Key responsibilities include designing event-driven microservices using Apache Kafka, securing applications with Spring Security, OAuth2, JWT, and AWS IAM, and deploying containerized services on Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS EKS. Also involved in CI/CD automation using Jenkins, GitLab, Argo CD, Maven, and SonarQube, along with monitoring through AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Java Full Stack Developer at Cigna Healthcare, Jul 2022 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States, Worked as a Senior Full Stack Developer in the healthcare domain, developing HIPAA-compliant applications using Java 11, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, Azure, REST APIs, GraphQL, and microservices architecture. Built secure patient and clinician-facing platforms with strong focus on authentication, accessibility, performance, and healthcare data interoperability. Contributed to backend services, frontend component libraries, cloud deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and event-driven integrations using Apache Kafka, Azure Service Bus, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure DevOps, Docker, and Kubernetes. Also worked on API governance, system observability, automated testing, and modernization of legacy healthcare systems using SOAP, REST, XML, and HL7/FHIR standards.

Java Full Stack Developer at Target, Sep 2019 - Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, Worked as a Java Full Stack Developer in the retail/e-commerce domain, designing and developing applications for product catalogs, inventory tracking, order fulfillment, checkout, payment workflows, and customer order management. Built backend services using Java 8, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Hibernate, Oracle, RabbitMQ, REST APIs, and GraphQL. Developed responsive frontend features using Vue.js, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, and Tailwind CSS. Supported cloud-native deployments on GCP using Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, and GitLab CI/CD. Also contributed to payment gateway integrations, PCI-DSS compliance, Keycloak authentication, testing automation, database optimization, and production monitoring using Splunk and GCP Cloud Monitoring.

Java Full Stack Developer at Southwest Airlines, Dec 2017 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos, Dallas, Texas, United States, Worked as a Java Full Stack Developer in the airline/travel domain, developing and maintaining enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Hibernate, JPA, React, Redux, RESTful services, and microservices architecture. Built scalable backend services and responsive frontend interfaces that supported enterprise business workflows and cloud-hosted integrations. Worked with AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS, EKS, and API Gateway for cloud-native application deployment. Also contributed to CI/CD automation using Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm, while improving quality through JUnit, Selenium, Jest, RestAssured, Postman, ELK Stack, and SonarQube.

Junior Java Developer at Ramco Systems, May 2016 - Oct 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Started as a Java Developer, building and maintaining enterprise applications using Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA, JSF, Apache Tomcat, Maven, and GitLab. Worked on backend development, database integrations, API testing, UI enhancements, and production support for business-critical applications. Gained hands-on experience with Oracle DB, Cassandra, ActiveMQ, Zookeeper, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, and GCP services such as Cloud Run and App Engine. Also contributed to frontend development using Vue.js, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, Material UI, and jQuery, while following Agile practices and improving code quality using SonarQube, Selenium, TestNG, and Postman.

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Dr MGR Educational and Research Institute