KUMAR MANISH

+91-7760-120-120 • kmanish@alumni.ncsu.edu • linkedin.com/in/kmrmanish

Summary
● 15+ years of experience architecting & leading middleware software and enterprise-level distributed, scalable
web applications with Java, JavaScript, Spring Boot, Hibernate, RabbitMQ/ Kafka, Keycloak, Cloud (AWS,
Azure), Git, and Microservices, AngularJS/ReactJS as an individual contributor/lead
● Adept in leading end-to-end development cycle, including requirement analysis, dev-effort estimation planning,
design, implementation, test automation, release in production, and monitoring using DevOps, CI/CD
● Experience in customer/client-facing interactions, translating business requirements to technical specifications
● Experience in Agile/scrum / Kanban style software environment, taking part in agile ceremonies from
refinement, sprint planning, daily scrum, and sprint review, backlog grooming
● Adept in application architecture, OOPS, SOLID principles, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
● Computer Science degrees from North Carolina State University, USA (Master's) and VTU, India (Bachelor's).

Skills
Languages Java, JavaScript (ES6), SQL, Shell scripts
Frameworks Spring Boot, REST, MVC, Data, Batch, Security), AngularJS, ReactJS, Junit,
Mockito
Tools/Technology JSP, JDBC, Hibernate/JPA, Docker, Kubernetes, NodeJS, RabbitMQ, Kafka
Microservices Spring Cloud, Netflix-OSS (Zuul, Eureka, Ribbon, Hystrix), Consul, Nginx, OAuth2
Cloud AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, Route53), Azure, Terraform
Databases MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
CI/CD, Bamboo, Jenkins, Ant, Maven, NPM
Build/Packaging
Version Control Git, Perforce, Subversion, Tortoise SVN, ClearCase
Others Sonar, Grafana, Splunk, Drools, jBPM, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket,
Cucumber/Gherkin

Work Experience
Equal Experts, Hyderabad/Bengaluru, India Oct 2022 – Mar 2025
Consultant: Client Waitrose
● Integrated with delivery partners like Uber Eats, Deliveroo & Just Eat to develop tools, APIs, and workflows to
optimize order processing, inventory synchronization, and real-time delivery tracking.
● Develop and maintain integrations between Waitrose systems and delivery platforms.
● Used various AWS modules like dynamodb, lambdas, S3, cloudformation, SQS, SNS, KMS, EventBridge,
StepFunctions, API Gateway, etc to develop microservices that enable sending menus daily to partners to display
on Uber, Deliveroo & JustEat apps to order.
● Develop a module to create and send meal deals, offers, and discounts for the Uber platform daily.
● Develop a service to ingest all sales from providers in real time for tracking orders, inventory, and finance
reconciliation.

Tech Lead: Client Network International (Leading payment gateway in the Middle East)
● Integrated the client’s payment gateway with Brighterion for real-time fraud detection in online digital payments,
leading to savings of 2% of the client’s EBITDA, which equates to roughly $ 2.5 million per year.
● Integrated client’s payment gateway to accept JCB scheme cards, increasing our card acceptance rate to 97%
● Integrated Mastercard’s Automatic Billing Updater with the client’s payment gateway, resulting in saving of
noncompliance fines from Mastercard of 20000 USD per month
● Designed and implemented the automation of merchant registration with Mastercard using Azure Blob Storage
and MC File Express, helping eliminate any manual merchant registration.
● Led the South Africa Vodacom white label project (white-labeling integration) to extend the existing payment
gateway solution for Vodacom requirements, creating new solutions like recurring scheduler, API integration with
Ukheshe QR payments, Ozow payments, and Alipay(A+) payments.
 Sincro Digital, Hyderabad, India Oct 2020 – Oct 2022
Senior Backend Engineer
● Converted monthly releases to weekly/on-demand, increased team’s agility, turn-around time, and sprint velocity
by leading the migration of a monolith application into microservices using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Oracle.
● Saved company around $150000 per year in Oracle EE licensing fees by migrating database of 3 applications from
Oracle to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL (Java, Spring Data, Oracle, Postgres, Terraform)
● Achieved a 33% increase in customer engagement by leading 3 projects successfully in production by building
backend services and infrastructure, collaborating with other cross-functional teams
● Improving the resiliency, decreasing the failure rates and lead loss to effectively zero by introducing RabbitMQ
queue pipeline making the system asynchronous, robust, and fail-resistant.
● Automating the CI/CD pipeline using Bamboo for new microservices with auto-deployments on AWS
● Achieving a test coverage of 90% in 3 projects by advocating TDD, increasing test coverage by adding unit,
integration, and acceptance tests, integrating them in Bamboo and integrating Sonar in Bamboo pipeline.
● Decreasing integration test failures in Bamboo/local sandbox to 0% by converting 2 existing projects to a Docker
application
● Improving sales team productivity by 50% by leading the effort to integrate with Pardot Salesforce form handlers
to effectively manage sales leads

CDK Global, Hyderabad, India 2018 – 2020

Senior Backend Engineer
● Increased revenues by 10% by architecting and implementing a dashboard project using Java, JavaScript, ReactJS
that enabled better visibility of customer leads, and offering it as an optional add-on service to our product suite.
● Authored REST services to be consumed by our other internal web applications using Spring REST, Spring
Security, OAuth & Hibernate.
● Created and presented a database design analysis for the lead routing app, comparing NoSQL & relational
databases, resulting in finally selecting the relational design for the new lead routing app microservice.
● Automated the database schema creation and modification tasks by creating Liquibase scripts to make changes
to the CGI & FC tables for Postgres implementation/readiness, removing any DBA dependencies
● Led the effort to replace all JDBC queries with Hibernate/JPA/Spring Data queries, reducing the time to add new
queries or debug bugs in existing queries by 50% and increasing developer productivity.

Ness Technologies, Bangalore, India 2013 – 2017

Member of Technical Staff
● Increased the email and phone leads coming into the system by 40% by designing and implementing project
called Price Alerts using Java, Spring (REST, Batch), JDBC templates
● Improved a buyer’s car buying experience by designing and implementing a Login feature using JavaScript,
NodeJS, helping consumers save browsed vehicles in their profile, increasing customer engagement on sites
● Increased developer efficiency by 25% by replacing Apache Wickets framework with Spring MVC framework
● Improved the rate of consumption of inventory feed files in Inventory daily batch job by 30% by using the parallel
processing option of Spring Batch. This was replicated by other devs for all other existing and future batch jobs.
● Created various spring batch jobs to read daily vehicle offers supplied by OEM’s and load them into the inventory
database

eBay, Chennai, India 2012 - 2013

Software Engineer II
● Increased eBay’s seller department’s revenue by 5% by designing and implementing a system using Java, Spring,
multithreading, MongoDB to read and analyze the daily data warehouse reports with millions of records.
● Brought down the batch job run time, which mines and reads data warehouse text files with millions of lines, from
1 hour to 5 minutes using optimization techniques like multithreading, caching

Indecomm Global, Bangalore, India 2011 –2012

Senior Java/J2EE developer

Wipro, Bangalore, India 2010 – 2011

Senior software developer
Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, India 2006 –2008
Systems Engineer

Education
North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, USA
Master of Science in Computer Science 2008-2010

Visveswaraya Technological University Karnataka, India

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science 2002-2006