π» Java Backend Engineer (3.5+ years) | Spring Boot | Cloud & DevOps
Currently expanding into Angular and building end-to-end full-stack applications.
I design, build, deploy, and operate backend systems with a strong focus on clean architecture, security, performance, and production readiness.
- Design and develop Java 17 / Spring Boot microservices
- Build REST APIs with proper layering, validation, error handling, and documentation
- Implement security-first backend systems (RBAC, OAuth2, least-privilege access)
- Deploy and operate applications on AWS with CI/CD and monitoring
- Currently learning Angular and building full-stack (frontend + backend) projects
- Java 17, Spring Boot, Spring MVC
- REST APIs, Microservices
- Spring Data JPA / Hibernate
- Spring Security (RBAC, OAuth2)
- Angular
- TypeScript, HTML, CSS
- REST API integration
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Query optimization, indexing, schema design
- AWS: EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch
- Docker, Kubernetes (basics)
- Jenkins, GitHub Actions
- Maven, Git, Linux CLI, Bash
- Nginx, Apache
- Prometheus, Grafana
- ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Backend Engineer β Emphatic Sense Technologies
May 2022 β Oct 2025
- Built and maintained production-grade Spring Boot microservices
- Designed and optimized REST APIs with DTO mapping, validation, and OpenAPI
- Implemented RBAC + OAuth2 security across services
- Improved API response times by ~35% via DB and service-level optimizations
- Implemented Redis caching to reduce DB load
- Built Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments
- Worked on AWS-based, monitored, auto-healing systems
- Delivered multiple backend modules independently with end-to-end ownership
- Designed scalable security models impacting 100% of users
- Reduced deployment time by ~70% with CI/CD automation
- Improved system uptime with proactive monitoring & alerting
Spring Boot + Angular
A full-stack application focused on intent-driven habit tracking and gradual improvement.
Currently under active development with clean backend architecture and evolving frontend.
Backend-first design, clean domain modeling, and future-ready architecture.
(More projects coming soonβ¦)
- Advanced Angular (state management, clean component architecture)
- End-to-end system design (Frontend β Backend β Cloud)
- Better observability & production debugging
- Security best practices in backend systems
- Backend / Full-stack (Java + Angular) opportunities
- System design & architecture discussions
- Open-source collaboration (backend-focused)
- π§ Email: prahaladwork@gmail.com
- πΌ LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/prahalad-p
βBuild systems that are easy to reason about, secure by default,
and reliable in production.β