About

Aparna Kulkarni is a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer currently working at Apple. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, Aparna has a strong background in architecting microservices using various frameworks such as REST, Retrofit, RxJava, Scala, Java, ElasticSearch, Docker, Kafka, Circuit Breaker, and Cassandra. She is also proficient in building two-way SSL communication, Certificates, PKI, and cryptographic schemes. Aparna has a proven track record of working independently on critical components and is flexible in adopting new technologies. Her areas of expertise include server programming, database design, application architecture, validation, data warehousing, legacy modernization, optimization, requirement gathering, verification, and software quality assurance. She has worked with a variety of programming languages such as Java and Scala, REST frameworks such as Play and SpringBoot, and databases such as Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, and NoSQL databases like Cassandra and ElasticSearch. Aparna is also proficient in using tools such as Maven, Git, Github, Jenkins, and Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, SQOOP, Ab Initio, Hive, and Pig. Aparna's previous experience includes working as a Senior Software Engineer at Samsung, where she integrated Samsung Pay with Payment Gateways, built Deals and Offers Engine, Promotion and Rewards Engine, and Samsung Money by SOFI. She also worked as an intern at Retail Solutions, where she gained experience in POS data analysis, ETL, and reporting for cross-retailer analysis for vendors to increase their sales and forecast sales. Aparna holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Pune, where she majored in Computer Science. She also has a degree in SSC School Study from JNU and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Bharti Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering for Women and the Department of Technology, Savitribai Phule Pune University. Overall, Aparna Kulkarni is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in microservices architecture, database design, and data warehousing. She has a proven track record of working independently on critical components and is flexible in adopting new technologies.