Senior Software Engineer

H K Manoj

Building event-driven microservices that scale.
Java · Spring Boot · AWS · Kafka · Kubernetes
4+ years shipping production systems at scale.

0K+ Events / Day
0.9% Availability SLA
0+ Years XP
0%+ Test Coverage
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Skills & Technologies

Core Backend
Java 8/11/17 Spring Boot Spring MVC Spring Security Hibernate REST APIs JDBC JUnit 5 Mockito TDD
Cloud & AWS
Lambda ECS SQS EventBridge EC2 S3 RDS API Gateway DynamoDB
DevOps & Infra
Docker Kubernetes Jenkins JFrog CI/CD Maven Blue-Green Deploy
Data & Messaging
Kafka Elasticsearch MySQL Oracle MongoDB Redis Spring Batch Log4j

Work Experience

Senior Associate Consultant
Mar 2025 — Present
⬡ Infosys · Bangalore, India
  • Optimized Elasticsearch content indexing for a platform serving 5M+ medical research documents, cutting search query response time by 40%.
  • Designed event-driven architecture (AWS Lambda + EventBridge + SQS), eliminating manual intervention in 3 critical production pipelines — saving 20+ engineering hours/week.
  • Containerized 6+ microservices on Amazon ECS with blue-green deployment, reducing deployment failures by 50%.
  • Led Spring Boot 2.x → 3.x and Java 11 → 17 migration with zero-regression go-live; 15% improved GC performance via virtual threads.
  • Built a modular tool-calling AI agent using LLM-based GenAI, reducing boilerplate across 8+ microservices by 35%.
40% faster search 20+ hrs/week saved 50% fewer deploy failures 99.9% availability
System Engineer
Feb 2023 — Mar 2025
⬡ Tata Consultancy Services · Bangalore, India
  • Architected ITSM Ticket Automation system with Spring Boot microservices + Kafka processing 10K+ events/day, cutting resolution time by 45%.
  • Developed core business logic for an AI-powered chatbot handling 500+ daily interactions, reducing per-sprint effort by 30%.
  • Automated report generation via REST API + Spring Batch — reduced 4 hours of weekly effort to under 30 minutes (87.5% reduction).
  • Awarded TCS Gems Award for ITSM Automation Architecture for measurable client impact.
45% faster resolution 87.5% reporting effort cut TCS Gems Award 🏆
Associate Software Engineer
Jun 2021 — Jan 2023
⬡ Virtusa · Chennai, India
  • Delivered feature implementations across 6 Agile sprints with 100% on-time delivery and zero critical defects.
  • Built secure OTP-based Reset/Forgot Password workflows using Spring Security, reducing support tickets by ~25%.
  • Integrated Log4j with correlation IDs, reducing mean time to diagnose production issues from hours to under 15 minutes.
100% sprint delivery 15 min avg. debug time 25% fewer tickets

Featured Projects

01 / GitHub
ProductSearch Engine
Full-text product search engine leveraging Elasticsearch for high-performance indexing and querying. REST API backend built with Spring Boot.
Java Spring Boot Elasticsearch REST API
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02 / Infosys
Event-Driven AWS Pipeline
Serverless event pipeline using Lambda + EventBridge + SQS that automated 3 critical production workflows, eliminating all manual intervention.
AWS Lambda EventBridge SQS ECS
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03 / TCS
ITSM Ticket Automation
Event-driven ITSM automation system processing 10K+ events/day with Kafka. Reduced ticket resolution time by 45% across production queues.
Kafka Spring Boot Microservices MySQL
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04 / Infosys
LLM Tool-Calling AI Agent
Modular AI agent framework using LLM-based GenAI that reduced boilerplate code across 8+ microservices by 35%, accelerating feature delivery.
Java Spring Boot GenAI / LLM Tool Calling
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Achievements & Certifications

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TCS Gems Award
ITSM Automation Architecture · 2024
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Oracle Certified
Java SE 8 Programmer · 2022
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AWS Practitioner
Cloud Practitioner Essentials
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LeetCode 1427
Competitive Programming Rating
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B.E. EEE
VTU · CGPA 7.41 · 2021

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