Bhawna Sharma

• Honda - Automotive Infotainment & Energy: Led design and delivery of connected vehicle and Electric Mobility Service Platform (eMSP) solutions for Honda, managing cross-functional engineering teams to achieve successful cloud-native microservice development. Designed conversational AI architectures and integrated LLM-based voice assistants for AI-enabled automotive infotainment initiatives, building secure backend services for Android Automotive/IVI platforms to enhance user experience. Developed scalable, event-driven solutions using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes, collaborating with global stakeholders to ensure delivery of high-quality connected mobility solutions.

• Edward Jones: Developed cloud-ready, event-driven microservices using Spring Boot, Kafka, and Factory Design Pattern. Implemented engineering best practices including pre-commit validation, Checkstyle, centralized logging, and automated quality checks, improving application scalability, maintainability, and operational monitoring.
• Led cross-functional teams in delivering technology solutions aligned with client objectives.
• Mentored junior developers, fostering skill development and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Streamlined software development processes, enhancing efficiency and reducing delivery timelines.

• Nationwide: Led a large-scale modernization initiative to migrate legacy REI applications into scalable Spring Boot microservices. Designed and developed reusable backend services, integrated them with Angular applications, and implemented Apigee API Gateway for secure API management, including OAuth-based access token validation and policy-driven token transformation to generate authentication tokens.

• Best Buy: Developed event-driven asynchronous microservices using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Schema Registry, and Avro to enable reliable communication between frontend applications and downstream services. Designed scalable messaging and event driven solutions that improved data consistency, system reliability, and application performance.

Colgate (BSBF): Developed cloud-native microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and Angular, deployed on Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run). Integrated Google Cloud services, implemented centralized logging, distributed tracing, and monitoring to improve application performance, observability, and reliability.

Elixir & Unum Insurance: Developed and enhanced enterprise insurance applications supporting Life and Disability Benefits (LAB), DOPS, CIC, and GIP products. Worked within the Medical Underwriting team to analyze, design, and implement change requests (CRs/CCNs) for policy administration, underwriting, claims processing, and quotation modules. Collaborated with business stakeholders to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions while ensuring compliance with business and regulatory requirements.

TradeXpress: Designed, developed, and maintained enterprise middleware solutions for secure file translation and integration across FTP and shared locations. Gathered business requirements, developed interfaces supporting CSV, XML (DTD/XSD), and IDOC formats, and led the architecture and deployment of integration modules. Provided L2 production support, troubleshooting issues within SLA timelines, and introduced Failure Mode Analysis (FMA) to proactively identify risks, improve service reliability, and enhance software quality throughout the development lifecycle.

KEA (POS Upgrade): Contributed to the modernization of IKEA's global Point-of-Sale (POS) middleware platform by integrating third-party payment systems across multiple countries. Collaborated with business analysts to gather and analyze requirements, developed SOAP-based web services integrated with JMS Topics using Spring JPA and Oracle, built in-house Java tools for application monitoring and maintenance, performed unit testing with JUnit, and supported application deployment using WebLogic, Jenkins, and Maven, ensuring reliable and scalable payment processing across global retail operations.