Soumya Ranjan Sahoo

Hyderabad

Summary

High-performing Senior Backend Engineer with 3+ years of experience architecting scalable, distributed systems for major global retailers and financial institutions. Expert in building event-driven microservices using Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Proven track record of optimizing high-traffic e-commerce platforms, achieving 3x latency reductions through advanced Redis caching and MongoDB performance tuning. Passionate about modernizing legacy backends with Generative AI (RAG, LLMs) solutions.

Overview

years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Techblocks Consulting Pvt Ltd

Hyderabad

01.2024 - 04.2026

Client: Michaels (North America’s Largest Arts & Crafts Retailer)

Event-Driven Architecture: Designed and deployed scalable microservices on GCP using Spring Boot and Apache Kafka to synchronize real-time inventory across thousands of stores and online channels.
Performance Engineering (The "3x" Win): Led the architectural overhaul of the Product Catalog service to handle peak holiday traffic (Black Friday/Cyber Monday).
Action: Implemented a multi-layer Redis caching strategy and optimized MongoDB aggregation pipelines.
Result: Achieved a 3x reduction in API latency (sub-50ms response), ensuring zero downtime during peak sales events.
Database Optimization: Migrated complex, unstructured product data to MongoDB, enabling flexible schema evolution and significantly faster read performance for the frontend.
Observability: Integrated distributed tracing and logging using GCP Cloud Operations and DataDog, reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) for production incidents by 40%.

Software Engineer

Smartconnect Technology Pvt Ltd

Mumbai (Remote)

10.2022 - 10.2023

Project: Tata Play (Customer Support Portal)

Developed a "Customer 360" dashboard using Spring Boot, aggregating subscriber data from legacy mainframes into a unified REST API.
Reduced ticket resolution time by 30% by optimizing API response times, directly improving the Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) score

Project: State Bank of India (SBI) - Admin Portal

Maintained a mission-critical Java-based Admin Portal for internal banking operations.
Implemented strict Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to ensure compliance with banking security standards.
Refactored legacy JDBC code to optimized prepared statements, enhancing security against SQL injection and improving report generation speed.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Biju Pattnaik University of Technology

Bhubaneswar

2018

Skills

LANGUAGE: Java programming (versions 8, 11, 17, 21)
Frameworks: Spring Boot(3x), Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Microservices Architecture, Hibernate/JPA
DataBase: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
DEVOPS- Jenikins,GitLab

CLOUD- Google cloud platform(GCP)
GEN AI- SpringAI, RAG,Langchain
Tools- Kafka(Asynchronus communication), JetBrains(Code Editor), Redis(Cache)
AI Tools- GitHub Copilot, Devin AI, Claude 3x

TECHNICAL INNOVATION & PROJECTS

AI-Powered Knowledge Assistant (Spring AI & RAG)

Developing a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system using Spring AI to ingest and query internal technical documentation.
Utilizing Vector Databases to store embeddings and LangChain to orchestrate LLM responses, enabling conversational search capabilities over static data.

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