Software Engineer @ Maersk · Toptal Top 3% · I automate everything.

Software Engineer at Maersk (Bangalore), where I build event-driven backend services and lead large-scale frontend applications. My work spans the full stack — backend systems in Java / Kafka / Temporal, frontends in React / TypeScript, and the SRE & automation work that keeps it all running.

I'm Toptal-vetted (top 3% of global talent) and take on contract automation work on the side. If there's a repetitive task to kill or a pipeline to automate, ping me — that's my favorite kind of problem.

Maersk — Software Engineer · Jul 2023 – Present Build backend services with Java, Kafka, and Temporal; led two large-scale React + TypeScript frontends with zero major post-production defects; implemented Azure AD SSO + RBAC; and cut external partner onboarding from 25 days to 3 with a front-end-driven integration workflow.

Maersk — Site Reliability Engineer · Aug 2022 – Jul 2023 Automated monitoring and operational workflows in Python, built Grafana observability dashboards, and reduced production bug incidence by 32% through proactive incident detection and root-cause analysis.

Syngenta (Contract) — Automation Engineer · 2026 – Present Develop and optimize CI/CD pipeline automation for a Swiss agri-tech company.

Liorra (Remote · Cape Town) — Backend Engineer (Contract) Primary backend Java engineer on a multi-role nurse recruitment platform; built secure auth + RBAC for healthcare data and an automated job-ingestion pipeline that scraped the NIMS portal and delivered near real-time notifications.

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Specialties: System Design · Distributed Systems · API Development · Real-time Streaming · Web Scraping & Automation · SQL Optimization · Data Structures & Algorithms

A centralized exam-results platform for JNTU Hyderabad that I independently designed, built, deployed, and maintain.

• 📈 3,500–4,000 daily active users and 22,000+ API calls per day
• 🥇 #1 on Google for the keyword "JNTUH Results" via an SEO-optimized Next.js frontend
• ⚡ Sub-40 ms results-fetching across all semesters
• 🔄 Asynchronous processing with RabbitMQ and optimized caching with Redis
• ☁️ Deployed on AWS EC2 with Docker; full observability via Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki

Tech: FastAPI · Next.js · RabbitMQ · Redis · PostgreSQL · AWS EC2 · Docker · Prometheus · Grafana · Cloudflare

📦 Frontend · Backend

Thilak Scripts — A collection of day-to-day scripts I use to fetch and scrape whatever data I need. 📦 Repository

I occasionally write about software and algorithms:

• Pre-order, post-order, and in-order traversal of a binary tree in one traversal using recursion
• How to make automation projects using Postman

• 🔗 LinkedIn: thilakreddyy
• 📸 Instagram: thilak_reddy
• 🌐 Website: thilakreddypothuganti.com
• 📧 Email: thilakreddypothuganti@gmail.com