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title: "Pulkit Arora - Associate Software Engineer - Backend in Gurugram | Tal"
description: "Meet Pulkit Arora, Java Backend Engineer @ Nagarro | Spring Boot · Java 21 · REST APIs · Microservices · AWS · Redis · Kafka based in Gurugram. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and cursor."
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# Pulkit Arora on Tal

## Headline

Java Backend Engineer @ Nagarro \| Spring Boot · Java 21 · REST APIs · Microservices · AWS · Redis · Kafka

## About

Java Backend Engineer at Nagarro with 1\+ years of production work building and modernizing Java and Spring Boot services for an enterprise finance application used by a US\-based automotive client\. What I work on: • Migrating NFS/FTP file workflows to Amazon S3 as the source of truth • JVM heap diagnostics and removing unbounded static caches • Valkey/Redis distributed caching and Resilience4j circuit breakers/retries • Upgrading legacy stacks from Java 8 / Spring Boot 2\.x to Java 21 and Spring Boot 4\.1\.0 I also build concurrency\-safe backend APIs with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, optimistic locking, and transactional outbox \(personal project: inventory reservation under load with k6\)\. Secondary: embeddings and Azure AI vector databases from a chatbot internship at Claw Legal Tech\. Open to Java Backend Engineer / Software Engineer roles focused on scalable, reliable systems\.

## Location

Gurugram

## AI stack

antigravity

claude code

cursor

hugging face

githubcopilot

LlamaIndex

## Work experience

Associate Software Engineer \- Backend at Nagarro, Oct 2025 \- Present · 1 yr, Gurugram, Haryana, India, • Modernized a finance app for a US\-based automotive client by migrating NFS and FTP workflows to Amazon S3 as the file source of truth\. • Investigated JVM heap retention from static HashMap caches; removed unbounded static collections and enabled Actuator heapdump endpoints\. • Implemented Valkey and Redis caching with Spring Data Redis and reduced database query cost by fixing Calendar\-based cache\-key fragmentation\. • Upgraded Java 8 / Spring Boot 2\.x to Java 21 and Spring Boot 4\.1\.0; added Resilience4j breakers and retries with database fallbacks on Valkey failure\.

Trainee at Nagarro, Jul 2025 \- Sep 2025 · 3 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Backend Intern at Claw Legaltech, Apr 2025 \- Jun 2025 · 3 mos, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, Built text embeddings with Claude Haiku and stored them in an Azure AI vector database to improve chatbot retrieval quality\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

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