Rohith Akepati

Java Full Stack Engineer with 4+ years building distributed systems in fintech and enterprise environments payment orchestration at Freecharge sustaining millions of daily transactions, and cloud-native order management at Dell Technologies. Delivered 30–35% API performance gains through event-driven architecture, Spring WebFlux, and microservices design. Expert in PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

Strong security record with OAuth2, JWT, and PCI-DSS compliance across payment-critical systems

Java Full Stack Developer | Dell Technologies Feb 2026 – Present

• Reduced API response latency by 30% on Dell's order management platform by re-architecting legacy services to asynchronous, event- driven patterns using Spring WebFlux — directly improving checkout reliability for enterprise customers.
• Built and deployed cloud-native microservices for distributed order processing using Spring Boot, AWS Lambda, and Docker, cutting infrastructure costs by 22% while improving fault tolerance and horizontal scalability.
• Delivered React, Redux, and TypeScript dashboards for internal operations teams, increasing user engagement by 47% through real- time state updates and dynamic data visualizations.
• Architected GraphQL and RESTful API integrations via API Gateway to bridge legacy ERP systems with cloud-native services, eliminating data silos and improving cross-platform data consistency.
• Overhauled CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and SonarQube, enforcing quality gates with JUnit and Cypress reducing production defects by 25%.

Software Development Engineer | Freecharge Payment Technologies Aug 2022 – Dec 2023

• Led system design and delivery of high-volume payment orchestration microservices using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and Node.js, sustaining millions of daily transactions with 99.98% uptime while improving API throughput by 35%.
• Engineered secure, event-driven payment workflows using Spring Security, JWT, OAuth2, Tokenization, and PCI-DSS compliant standards, reducing security risk vectors and strengthening compliance posture.
• Optimized distributed system performance by tuning PostgreSQL queries, MongoDB indexing strategies, and Redis caching layers, reducing reconciliation query time by 40% and lowering API latency across core services.
• Modernized checkout and transaction interfaces using React, Angular, Redux, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and Material-UI, driving an 18% increase in payment success and conversion rates.
• Containerized and deployed microservices using Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS ECS, enabling zero-downtime deployments and reducing rollback incidents by 20%.
• Strengthened DevOps by implementing CI/CD pipelines, Selenium E2E automation, 85% unit test coverage, and AWS CloudWatch monitoring — improving release stability and cutting incident response time.

Software Engineer | Avenir Technologies Jan 2020 – Jul 2022

• Architected scalable backend services using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Python, JPA, and PostgreSQL — improving client onboarding efficiency by 28% while reducing SLA penalties.
• Designed high-performance REST APIs integrated with MongoDB and Redis, improving data retrieval speeds by 45% and strengthening system responsiveness.
• Implemented OAuth2 and JWT authentication, reducing unauthorized access incidents by 60% and enhancing enterprise security posture.
• Developed responsive UI components using React.js, Angular, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and Bootstrap, accelerating feature delivery cycles by 35%.
• Led cloud migration to AWS (EC2, RDS, S3) and Azure AKS, reducing infrastructure costs by 20% while improving scalability and service reliability.
• Improved production stability via ELK-based logging and distributed monitoring — reducing defects by 25% and improving mean time to detect incidents by 45%.

Master of Science in Computer Science — Clemson University, Clemson, SC | Jan 2024 - Dec 2025 | GPA: 3.8 / 4.0