About

Aparna Gopalakrishna is a highly experienced Software Developer with over 7 years of professional experience in designing and developing applications using Java/J2EE technologies. She has a strong understanding of the complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and has worked on various aspects of it. Currently, she is working as a Software Developer at Staples, where she is responsible for developing Microservices using Java/J2EE Technologies and Spring Framework. Aparna has a strong understanding of common API technologies such as REST, JSON, OAuth, JWT, Webhooks, and SAML. She has extensive experience working with Spring Framework, including Spring MVC, AOP, Spring Data, Spring Security, and Spring Boot. She has also worked with CI/CD tools such as Ant, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, JFrog, and Nexus and has experience in automating the build and deployment process using Jenkins, Groovy, Shell Scripting, and Python. Aparna is proficient in using AWS (Amazon Web Services) services like EC2, VPC, Cloud Watch, Cloud Front, Cloud Formation, IAM, S3, Amazon RDS, Elastic Cache, SNS, and SNQ. She has hands-on experience working on Apache Kafka, including Kafka Brokers, Kafka Connector, Zookeeper, Schema Registry, KStream, KsqlDB, and Apache Avro. She also has a good understanding of Spark Streaming with Kafka for real-time processing. Aparna has experience in developing complex PL/SQL Queries, Procedures, Triggers, Stored Procedures, Packages, and Views in various databases such as Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. She has worked with Oracle SQL and PL/SQL programming and used Database utility programs like TOAD and SQL Navigator and tuning the application using Explain Plan and SQL Trace to optimize the cost and for higher efficiency. Aparna has excellent communication skills, is technically competent, and has strong problem-solving skills enabling effective interaction with project sponsors, testers, and business users. She has previously worked with Turner (Turner Broadcasting System, Inc) and AT&T as a Software Developer and Associate Software Engineer, respectively. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Reva Institute for Engineering and Technology Studies. Overall, Aparna has 8.70 years of relevant experience as a Software Engineer and has a strong tech stack that includes SQL, Spring, Kafka, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Microservices, AWS, Java, Spark, CI/CD, MySQL