Software Engineer — PROLAX IT SOLUTIONS | May 2023 – Present Java 8 · Spring Boot · Microservices · Spring Security · MySQL · PostgreSQL · Docker · Kafka · Git · Maven Built and scaled 8 Spring Boot microservices, enabling independent deployments and significantly reducing inter-service coupling across eligibility workflows. Designed REST APIs for end-to-end state benefit eligibility processing, improving feature delivery speed through reusable service patterns and early API contract alignment with the team. Secured distributed services using JWT authentication and RBAC (Spring Security), protecting sensitive citizen data across all modules. Optimized MySQL and PostgreSQL queries with indexing and tuning, improving high-frequency eligibility lookup performance by 25% (validated via execution logs). Introduced Kafka-based asynchronous communication between services, reducing synchronous dependencies and improving system resilience under load. Containerized all services using Docker, ensuring environment consistency across local and staging and reducing testing-phase environment issues. Designed and enforced centralized exception handling with custom error classes, standardizing API error responses and reducing debugging effort across the team. Maintained 80%+ JUnit test coverage on core business logic, catching edge cases early and improving confidence in each release cycle. Collaborated in Agile/Scrum sprints — contributed to API contract decisions, participated in code reviews, and helped maintain consistent sprint delivery.