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Hi, I'm Shiva Gudivada

Senior Software Engineer | Cloud & Distributed Systems

8+ years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems in AWS and Azure. Skilled in Java, Go, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, and distributed systems design.

Experience & Education

2023

Compunnel

Senior Software Engineer
  • Scaled Cassandra databases, boosting throughput by 40%
  • Led a 6-member team, meeting all delivery timelines and improving code quality
  • Built Go/AWS cloud-native apps with touchless CI/CD, cutting deployment errors by 25%
  • Added monitoring & API security checks, reducing downtime and catching issues earlier
2022 – 2023

The Gap Inc.

Senior Software Engineer
  • Reduced AWS cloud costs by 25% via smarter scaling and resource optimization
  • Built real-time Kafka app processing 100k+ events/hour, improving partner data sync
  • Automated test data tools, boosting QA efficiency by 35%
  • Improved microservices resilience, reducing production issues and increasing uptime
2019 – 2022

g2o

Software Engineer
  • Delivered high-volume microservices with Spring Boot, Kafka, and Azure Event Hubs
  • Reduced failed event processing by 50% with Redis caching and reprocessing
  • Increased automated QA coverage by 40% through Cucumber integration
2018 – 2019

American Smart Lending Group

Software Engineer
  • Built a mortgage portal with Vue.js & AWS, driving a 10x increase in applications
  • Deployed with blue/green strategies for zero-downtime releases
2017 - 2019

Master of Engineering, Computer Science

University of Cincinnati

GPA: 3.8/4.0

2015 – 2017

Tata Consultancy Services

Assistant Systems Engineer
  • Automated processes that cut manual effort by 75%
  • Won "On the Spot" award for resolving a critical client issue quickly
2011 - 2015

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics & Communication

G.V.P. College of Engineering

Skills

Core Technologies

• Java
• Go
• SQL
• Spring Boot
• Node.js
• Microservices
• Distributed Systems

Cloud Platforms

• AWS (Lambda, S3, EC2, CI/CD)
• Azure (Event Hubs, Redis, Key Vault)

Databases

• Oracle
• MySQL
• Apache Cassandra
• DynamoDB
• MongoDB
• Cosmos DB
• Yugabyte

Messaging & Streaming

• Kafka
• NATS
• IBM MQ
• JMS

DevOps & CI/CD

• Jenkins
• Docker
• Git
• Sonar
• Jacoco

Testing & QA

• Cucumber
• JUnit
• Mockito
• PowerMock
• Mockery
• Apache JMeter
• Rushhour

Monitoring & Observability

• Splunk
• New Relic
• Datadog
• Amazon CloudWatch
• Graphite