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title: "Shuvam Kumar Behera - Engr-II Software Development in Hyderabad | Tal"
description: "Meet Shuvam Kumar Behera, Immediate Joiner | Serving Notice Period | Senior Software Engineer | Java Full Stack | Distributed Systems | Microservices based in Hyderabad. AI stack includes antigravity and opencode. Explore public work links including github."
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# Shuvam Kumar Behera on Tal

## Headline

Immediate Joiner \| Serving Notice Period \| Senior Software Engineer \| Java Full Stack \| Distributed Systems \| Microservices

## About

I’m a Backend & AI Java Engineer with 5\+ years of experience building scalable, resilient, and high\-performance distributed systems\. I enjoy solving complex engineering challenges by designing backend platforms that are reliable, maintainable, and built to scale\. Throughout my career, I've modernized legacy applications into cloud\-native microservices, developed high\-throughput APIs, optimized distributed systems, and engineered AI\-powered developer platforms that improve engineering productivity\. Recently, I built an internal AI\-assisted migration platform that automated Java 8 to Java 21 migration analysis, helping standardize modernization across 40\+ legacy services while significantly reducing manual effort\. What drives my engineering approach: 🚀 Performance First – I enjoy analyzing bottlenecks, optimizing APIs and database interactions, and improving system latency to deliver exceptional user experiences\. 🏗️ Scalable Architecture – I design loosely coupled, event\-driven microservices that improve scalability, resilience, and maintainability while reducing operational complexity\. ☁️ Cloud\-Native Engineering – I leverage AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, and CI/CD to build secure, highly available, and cost\-efficient applications that scale with business needs\. 🤖 AI\-Powered Backend Development – I build AI\-enabled backend applications and developer tools that automate engineering workflows, improve developer productivity, and accelerate software modernization by integrating LLMs and intelligent automation into enterprise systems\. Core Skills • Java • Spring Boot • Microservices • REST APIs • SQL • React • C\+\+ • AI Backend Development • LLM Integration • Distributed Systems • System Design \(HLD & LLD\) • AWS \(Lambda\) • Docker • Kubernetes • Apache Kafka • CI/CD • Data Structures & Algorithms • Performance Optimization I'm always interested in collaborating on challenging backend engineering problems, AI\-powered applications, distributed systems, cloud\-native architectures, and scalable platform development\. Feel free to connect if you'd like to discuss backend engineering, AI, system design, or new opportunities\.

## Location

Hyderabad

## AI stack

antigravity

opencode

## Work experience

Engr\-II Software Development at Verizon, Aug 2021 \- Present · 5 yrs 1 mo, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Key Achievements & Impact: • Modernized 40\+ legacy services running on a Monolith by migrating from Java 8 to Java 21, building custom AI agents, leveraging Docker containerization to achieve environment\-agnostic configurations, and streamlining deployment via Kubernetes\. • Implemented an Event\-Driven Architecture using Apache Kafka to decouple backend services, enabling asynchronous processing for high\-volume data streams and significantly reducing downstream system latency\. • Optimized backend resource utilization for a core platform supporting 10,000\+ active users, migrating core compute workloads to AWS Lambda to leverage native auto\-scaling, driving a 15% reduction in monthly cloud infrastructure costs through streamlined API calls and database index tuning\. • Improved critical API response times from 20 seconds to 4–5 seconds, drastically enhancing overall user experience and meeting strict corporate Service Level Agreements \(SLAs\)\. • Contributed to feature development, test case generation, and system integration within an Agile framework, integrating AI\-assisted productivity tools \(GitHub Copilot, Claude\) to boost feature delivery efficiency by 20%\.

Engr\-I Software Development at Verizon, Aug 2021 \- Dec 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Summer Internship at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing \(C\-DAC\), May 2019 \- Jul 2019 · 3 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Summer Internship at Defence Research and Development Organisation \(DRDO\), May 2018 \- Jun 2018 · 2 mos, Odisha, India

## Education

Btech Mtech Dual Degree, Computer Science, National Institute of Technology Rourkela

DAV Public School, Kalinga nagar, Bhubaneswar

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/noobcoder19

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