Java Solutions Architect with 20+ years of enterprise engineering and architecture leadership. Specializes in modern Java (Java 17/21), Spring Boot 3, and reactive event-driven microservices. Focuses on pragmatic software craftsmanship, leveraging SOLID principles, Clean & Hexagonal Architecture, and Vertical Slice design to deliver resilient, high-throughput cloud-native platforms.
- Modern Java & Reactive Systems: Java 21 (Virtual Threads, Records, Pattern Matching), Spring Boot 3, Spring WebFlux / Project Reactor, non-blocking R2DBC persistence, Quarkus.
- Event-Driven Architecture: Asynchronous event streaming with Apache Kafka, boundary isolation, backpressure management, Resilience4j circuit breakers.
- Architecture Governance & DDD: Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Clean & Hexagonal Architecture (Ports & Adapters), Vertical Slice Architecture, automated rule enforcement with ArchUnit.
- Cloud & Observability: AWS (EC2, S3, CloudWatch, ACM), Docker Compose, ELK Stack telemetry pipeline, Nginx reverse proxy, GitHub Actions CI/CD.
- AI Enthusiast & Integration: Post-Graduate Certificate in Data Science & AI from IIM Kozhikode; exploring decoupled ML pipelines in Hexagonal Architecture and accelerating daily velocity with modern AI tooling (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Gemini CLI).
- Reactive Event-Driven Microservices — Multi-module Java 21 platform with Spring WebFlux, R2DBC, Kafka event streaming, and an ELK telemetry pipeline.
- The Lateral Isolation Tax — Decision framework for peer-service boundaries with runnable Spring Boot demos and ArchUnit build-time enforcement.
- InjectionOnly Enforcer — Compile-time Java 17 annotation processor enforcing dependency-injection rules.
- Med-Noise-Cleanse — Medical image denoising using TensorFlow DAE, designed strictly with Hexagonal Architecture.
- ai-based-patient-appointment — Machine learning predictive scheduling system for healthcare clinical workflows.
- ollama-internet-search — Integration framework connecting local LLMs with real-time web search APIs.
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