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MANOJ KUMAR
+1 (682) 360-0111 | manojka.swe@gmail.com | LinkedIn | Portfolio

Summary

Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable full-stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, TypeScript, Kafka, and AWS. Strong experience developing REST APIs, event-driven systems, and high-performance applications using PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, and Kubernetes. Skilled in improving application performance, reliability, and CI/CD pipelines, with additional experience building LLM-assisted solutions and Python-based forecasting pipelines. Proven track record of delivering production systems across transaction, payment, booking, and content platforms.

Skills

  • Languages & Frameworks: Java, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring MVC, Angular, React.js, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), Python, Node.js, Redux, GraphQL, Next.js, Express.js, FastAPI, Hibernate
  • Frontend & Visualization: React.js (Hooks, Redux, Context API), Next.js, Angular, Tailwind CSS, Material UI, Storybook, SSR/SSG, code splitting, WCAG 2.1, ARIA, responsive design, PWA, A/B testing
  • Cloud & DevOps: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS, CloudFront, CloudWatch), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, serverless, auto-scaling, zero-downtime deployments, disaster recovery
  • Databases & Caching: Oracle DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, query optimization, caching strategies, sharding, replication
  • Web & API: RESTful APIs, WebSocket, GraphQL, OAuth 2.0, JWT, RBAC, ABAC, OpenAPI/Swagger, gRPC, Nginx
  • Distributed Systems: Apache Kafka, event-driven architecture, microservices, circuit breakers, fault tolerance, high-availability design, CQRS, DDD, clean architecture, monolith-to-microservices migration
  • Performance & Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch, New Relic, Sentry, P95 latency optimization, distributed tracing, memory-leak debugging, bundle analysis, CDN integration
  • Testing & QA: Jest, Cypress, JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, SonarQube, Postman, contract testing, TDD
  • Security: PCI DSS, OWASP Top 10, OAuth 2.0, JWT, RBAC, ABAC, CSP
  • AI & GenAI: LLM integration, prompt engineering, OpenAI API, scikit-learn, feature engineering, predictive analytics, recommendation systems
  • Agile & Collaboration: Agile/Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Confluence, sprint planning, SOLID, code reviews, technical mentoring, stakeholder management
  • Domain Expertise: FinTech (payments, subscriptions), e-commerce, SaaS platforms, enterprise analytics

Experience

Software Engineer · Robinhood (CloudNest LLC) | USA Jun 2026 - Present
  • Built key parts of the account-activity experience in React and TypeScript , transaction history, filtering, detail views, and loading/error states. Removing redundant API calls and improving client-side caching brought initial page load from 2.1s to 1.4s.
  • Traced slow responses in the Java/Spring Boot transaction APIs to repeated PostgreSQL reads and downstream calls; adding Redis caching and reworking queries dropped p95 response time from 480ms to 315ms.
  • Added and extended Java/Spring Boot APIs for account and transaction workflows, covering validation, error handling, and service integrations, and simplified shared processing behind several transaction operations.
  • Built the retrieval, access-control, and audit-logging layer for an LLM-assisted support tool that works from approved account and transaction data, lifting grounded-answer accuracy from 82% to 91% on the team's evaluation set.
  • Stopped duplicate processing in the Kafka transaction flow by making consumers idempotent and tightening retry, DLQ, and replay handling. Duplicate incidents fell from ~7 a month to zero, with CloudWatch alerts now catching consumer lag and failures early.
  • Expanded test coverage with Jest, React Testing Library, JUnit, and Spring Boot integration tests, and ran CI checks in parallel on GitHub Actions, taking the main pipeline from 24 to 15 minutes.
Software Engineer · DoJoGa | USA Jul 2025 - May 2026
  • Developed Java/Spring Boot APIs for course availability and booking, using PostgreSQL transactions and validation to handle concurrent enrollment requests and prevent conflicting reservations during peak registration.
  • Built key parts of the React and TypeScript booking experience , course search, availability, enrollment, and confirmation flows , with improved client-side state handling and lazy loading for heavier views.
  • Reworked long-running enrollment processing with Kafka and AWS Lambda, moving independent tasks to asynchronous execution with retry and failure handling. End-to-end processing time dropped from ~2 hours to 10 minutes.
  • Designed indexing for booking and course-search queries and added Redis caching for read-heavy paths after tracing slowness to repeated PostgreSQL reads. p95 API latency dropped from 400ms to 150ms.
  • Built reusable React components for course cards, search filters, enrollment forms, and booking status views, consolidating shared validation and error handling across the booking flow.
  • Used GitHub Copilot and Claude in the workflow for refactoring, test creation, debugging, and code generation across Java and React, with all generated changes reviewed and validated before merging.
  • Containerized Java services with Docker and deployed on Kubernetes through Jenkins CI/CD using blue-green releases, and built a Python/scikit-learn forecasting pipeline to estimate capacity needs ahead of enrollment periods.
Software Engineer · OneDine (SakhaTech) | USA Sep 2022 - Jul 2023
  • Built end-to-end payment integrations with Amazon Pay, Global Payments, and Heartland, developing the React checkout experience and Node.js backend APIs for authentication, transaction processing, payment status updates, and failure handling.
  • Developed a real-time notification system using Node.js and WebSockets to surface transaction and operational events, helping cut support resolution time from ~2 hours to 25 minutes.
  • Traced frontend performance issues to unnecessary Redux updates and cascading re-renders; normalizing the store and adding memoized selectors brought page load from 3.2s to 1.9s for an app serving 50,000+ monthly active users.
  • Migrated key frontend workflows from Angular to React Hooks and built shared components in Storybook, reducing duplicated UI work and removing ~1.4 MB from the frontend bundle.
  • Moved public-facing pages from client-side rendering to Next.js server-side rendering so search engines could index them.
  • Mentored ~15 developers joining a new team building the company's in-house platform, setting foundations for React patterns, component structure, testing practices, and code-review standards.
Software Engineer · Adobe (Skrots) | India Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
  • Developed core parts of a React and TypeScript content-management experience , asset search, filtering, metadata editing, and bulk actions , extracting common table, form, and validation behavior into shared components reused across product workflows.
  • Built Java/Spring Boot APIs for content and analytics search, metadata, and workflow operations, cutting p95 response on key endpoints from 620ms to 390ms by optimizing MySQL queries and removing repeated downstream calls.
  • Implemented Spring Security, OAuth2, and JWT-based authorization across customer-facing and internal APIs, consolidating duplicated authentication logic and standardizing role-based access checks.
  • Maintained Angular and RxJS modules while newer UI moved toward React, simplifying observable chains and removing duplicate subscriptions and requests causing stale data and unnecessary refreshes.
  • Improved a slow React analytics dashboard by tracing repeated renders and duplicate API requests; request caching, memoization, and lazy loading brought initial load from 4.8s to 2.9s on larger datasets.
  • Added Redis caching for frequently accessed content metadata, moved a content-processing workflow to Kafka async processing (~8 minutes to under 3), containerized services with Docker/Kubernetes, and cut the main CI pipeline from ~32 to 19 minutes.

Education & Certification

Master of Science, Data Science · University of Texas at Arlington , Arlington, TX, USA Aug 2023 - May 2025
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering · RNS Institute of Technology , Bengaluru, India Aug 2015 - Jul 2019

Certifications: Front End Web Developer Nanodegree I & II , Udacity (co-created by AT&T, Google, and GitHub)

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Hi, I'm Manoj.

welcome to my desk ↓

status
open to roles
experience
5+ years
reach me
manojka.swe@gmail.com
Software engineer who likes the hard parts: full-stack apps, event-driven systems, and performance work. 5+ years shipping React/TypeScript front ends and Java/Spring Boot services at scale, currently building the account-activity experience at Robinhood.

I'm a software engineer who builds full-stack applications that have to hold up under real load. I work across the stack , React, TypeScript, Next.js, Angular on the front end and Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Kafka, REST/GraphQL on the server side , backed by PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB. Cloud-native by default: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD.

I've done this at Robinhood (account-activity experience and transaction APIs), DoJoGa (a course booking platform with Kafka/Lambda pipelines and demand forecasting), OneDine (payment integrations and real-time notifications), and Adobe (content-management front ends and backend search/metadata APIs). Payments, booking, and content platforms , same underlying problems.

Things I care about: event-driven systems that don't drop or duplicate work, front ends that stay fast as data grows, AI woven in carefully (LLM-assisted tooling grounded in real, access-controlled data), and getting latency down by measuring where the work actually goes. I'm the engineer who took p95 from 480ms to 315ms and duplicate transaction incidents to zero by tracing the real cause.

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currently
Software Engineer at Robinhood (via CloudNest). Building the account-activity experience in React/TypeScript, tuning Java/Spring Boot transaction APIs, and hardening the Kafka transaction flow. Open to conversations about full-stack, fintech, and performance problems.
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by the numbers

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p95 transaction API latency, down from 480ms at Robinhood
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duplicate transaction incidents after Kafka idempotency fix
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monthly active users served on the OneDine platform
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grounded-answer accuracy on the LLM support tool, up from 82%
manoj@desk:~/playgrounds$ ./run --interactive
loading 3 live demos...

click things. break things.

three systems problems you'll hit the moment you have more than one user. payments, healthcare, messaging, analytics , same hard parts. try to break them.

01. webhook idempotency

LIVE

any webhook source , Stripe, GitHub, Twilio, Shopify, your own services , will retry if you don't ack in time. your job: process exactly once. strategy: every event carries an event_id, you cache what you've processed. try hitting "duplicate" a bunch.

0processed
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$0total charged

02. exponential backoff + jitter

LIVE

some downstream service , a database, a payment processor, an EHR, a third-party API , flakes out 60% of the time. retry up to 5 times with base · 2^n + jitter. jitter prevents the thundering herd. every run is different.

0attempts
0mselapsed
,result
// hit run to start

03. token bucket rate limiter

LIVE

every API needs one. capacity 10, refill 2/sec. each request spends a token. empty → 429. try to spam faster than it refills.

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manoj.dev › work › experience

where i've worked.

4 roles · 5+ years · full-stack, fintech, and platform work.

Software Engineer · CloudNest LLC
Robinhood
'26 → now
2.1s→1.4s
page load
480→315ms
p95 latency
82%→91%
grounded-answer accuracy

Built the account-activity experience in React/TypeScript and tuned the Java/Spring Boot transaction APIs behind it. Cut page load from 2.1s to 1.4s, dropped p95 to 315ms with Redis, made the Kafka flow idempotent (duplicate incidents to zero), and shipped a grounded LLM support tool at 91% accuracy.

Software Engineer
DoJoGa
'25 - '26
2h→10m
enrollment processing
400→150ms
p95 API latency
ML
demand forecasting

Built a course booking platform end to end , Spring Boot APIs + React/TypeScript flows. Moved enrollment processing to Kafka + Lambda (2 hours to 10 minutes), cut p95 latency from 400ms to 150ms, and built a Python/scikit-learn pipeline forecasting capacity ahead of enrollment.

Software Engineer · SakhaTech
OneDine
'22 - '23
3.2s→1.9s
page load
50K+
monthly active users
~15
devs mentored

Integrated 3 payment gateways (Amazon Pay, Global Payments, Heartland) with a React checkout and Node.js APIs. Cut page load from 3.2s to 1.9s for 50K+ MAU, built real-time WebSocket notifications, migrated Angular to React Hooks, and mentored ~15 developers.

Software Engineer · Skrots
Adobe
'19 - '22
620→390ms
p95 response
8m→<3m
content processing
32→19m
CI pipeline

Built a React/TypeScript content-management experience and the Java/Spring Boot search + metadata APIs behind it. Cut p95 from 620ms to 390ms, sped a slow dashboard from 4.8s to 2.9s, moved content processing to Kafka async (8 min to under 3), and trimmed CI from 32 to 19 minutes.

things I can actually do.

grouped by what I reach for. not a wishlist. not a buzzword cloud.

🧠 languages
Java Python C / C++ JavaScript TypeScript SQL
🎨 frontend
React Redux Next.js RxJS Tailwind HTML/CSS
⚙️ backend
Spring Boot Spring Cloud Node.js Express REST GraphQL
🤖 AI / ML
LLMs RAG AWS Bedrock OpenAI APIs Tool calling Embeddings & vector search Agent architecture Prompt engineering
📡 data & messaging
Kafka Redis PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB
☁️ cloud & devops
AWS Docker Kubernetes GitHub Actions CI/CD
🎯 production practices my thing
Idempotency Rate limiting Retries with jitter Circuit breakers OAuth2 / JWT Observability

things i've built.

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reviewlens
a voice-of-customer decision engine.
turns customer reviews and feedback into actionable insights. built to surface what users actually think, prioritize the signal, and help teams make data-driven product decisions.
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personal
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code-orbit
a playground for exploring code concepts visually.
an experimental space for visualizing algorithms, data structures, and computer-science ideas in the browser. designed to make abstract things tangible.
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personal
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arcade-game
a browser arcade game, built just for fun.
a classic arcade-style game running entirely in the browser. demonstrates game-loop fundamentals, collision detection, and responsive input handling.
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worked at
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robinhood
account-activity experience & transaction apis.
the account-activity experience , transaction history, filtering, and detail views in React/TypeScript, backed by Java/Spring Boot transaction APIs. Brought page load from 2.1s to 1.4s, dropped p95 API response from 480ms to 315ms with Redis caching and query rework, made the Kafka transaction flow idempotent (duplicate incidents to zero), and built a grounded LLM support tool that lifted answer accuracy from 82% to 91%.
+ tap to learn more
worked at
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dojoga
course booking platform with ml forecasting.
a course booking platform , Java/Spring Boot availability and booking APIs with PostgreSQL transactions to prevent double-booking at peak, plus a React/TypeScript search-to-confirmation flow. Moved enrollment processing to Kafka + AWS Lambda (2 hours to 10 minutes), cut p95 API latency from 400ms to 150ms with indexing and Redis, shipped via Jenkins blue-green releases, and built a Python/scikit-learn pipeline forecasting capacity needs ahead of enrollment.
+ tap to learn more
worked at
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onedine
payments & real-time notifications.
end-to-end payment integrations with Amazon Pay, Global Payments, and Heartland , a React checkout and Node.js APIs for auth, processing, status, and failure handling. Built a Node.js + WebSockets notification system (support resolution 2 hours to 25 minutes), cut page load from 3.2s to 1.9s for 50K+ MAU by normalizing Redux and memoizing selectors, migrated Angular to React Hooks with Storybook (~1.4 MB off the bundle), and moved public pages to Next.js SSR.
+ tap to learn more
worked at
🎨
adobe
content-management front end & search apis.
a React/TypeScript content-management experience , asset search, filtering, metadata editing, and bulk actions , with Java/Spring Boot APIs for content and analytics search. Cut p95 response from 620ms to 390ms on key endpoints, standardized OAuth2/JWT role-based access, sped a slow analytics dashboard from 4.8s to 2.9s, moved content processing to Kafka async (~8 minutes to under 3), and trimmed the CI pipeline from 32 to 19 minutes.
+ tap to learn more
personal
this site
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cooking new recipes
the kitchen sessions
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video games
console and keyboard
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tv, but responsibly
one more episode
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the gym
mon/wed/fri, mostly
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building websites for fun
sites like this one
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exploring restaurants
a new place every week
306 plays
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weekend travels
anywhere < 4 hours away
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