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Tech lead / lead developer resume sample
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Vikram Reddy
Technical Lead – Backend & Cloud · Hyderabad, Telangana
Professional Summary
Technical lead with 9 years of experience designing and running high-traffic backend systems on Java, Spring Boot and AWS. Leads a team of 10 engineers, owns architecture decisions and has moved two monoliths to microservices without downtime. Known for mentoring developers, raising code quality and delivering on committed dates.
Skills
Languages
- Java
- Kotlin
- SQL
- Python
Backend & architecture
- Spring Boot
- Microservices
- Kafka
- Redis
- REST & gRPC
- System design
Cloud & DevOps
- AWS (EKS
- RDS
- SQS
- Lambda)
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
Data
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Elasticsearch
Leadership
- Mentoring
- Hiring
- Sprint planning
- Code review
- Incident management
Work experience
Technical Lead, Cartwheel Commerce Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad, Telangana · Apr 2022 – Present
- Lead a team of 10 engineers owning order, inventory and payments services for an e-commerce platform handling 1.5 lakh orders a day.
- Split the order monolith into 9 Spring Boot microservices on AWS EKS with zero downtime; p95 latency fell from 900 ms to 220 ms.
- Introduced event-driven stock updates with Kafka, eliminating overselling during sale events.
- Set up code review standards, SonarQube gates and on-call runbooks; production incidents dropped 60% year on year.
- Hired and mentored 6 engineers, two of whom are now senior developers.
Senior Software Engineer, Meridian Health Systems
Bengaluru, Karnataka · Jun 2019 – Mar 2022
- Designed the appointment booking and teleconsultation APIs used by 300+ clinics.
- Moved on-premise servers to AWS, cutting hosting costs by 35%.
- Built a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins and Docker, taking releases from monthly to weekly.
Software Engineer, Indus Softworks
Hyderabad, Telangana · Jul 2017 – May 2019
- Developed modules of an insurance policy administration system in Java and Spring MVC.
- Wrote batch jobs that processed 50,000 renewals a night.
Projects
Flash Sale Readiness Program
Kafka, Redis, k6, AWS Auto Scaling
Led load testing and capacity work before the festive sale; the platform handled 8× normal traffic with 99.98% uptime.
Education
B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University · JNTU Hyderabad · 78.6% · 2013 – 2017
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional – Amazon Web Services (2023)
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) – The Linux Foundation (2022)
Achievements & Awards
- Engineering Excellence Award – Cartwheel Commerce (2024): For the zero-downtime microservices migration.
Languages Known
- Telugu – Native
- English – Fluent
- Hindi – Fluent
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