About

Gaurav Kumar (Shakya) is an Associate Lead Developer at Wunderman Thompson Commerce with over 8 years of experience in developing and designing multiple monolithic and distributed microservices-based applications from scratch in various domains, including E-commerce, Finance, Education, and Marketing. He specializes in writing RESTful APIs for increasing the scalability of applications, estimation, design, and development of web and microservice applications, and preparing Proof of Concepts (POCs). Gaurav has a strong technical background and is proficient in Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Cloud, Microservices, API Gateway, JPA, Hibernate, MyBatis MySQL, MongoDB, Azure cosmos DB, Azure service bus, Amazon S3, Azure Storage, Hive, Azure API management, Azure key vault, Sonarcloud, NewRelic, Braintree, Stripe, Listrak, and Bronto. He also has experience in integrating external systems using webhooks and REST APIs, designing and managing relational and NoSQL databases, and exposure to Agile/Scrum methodology and TDD (Test Driven Development). In his current role at Wunderman Thompson, Gaurav is responsible for estimating, designing, and developing microservices from scratch, preparing technical design documents (TDD), and technical governance reports monthly. He is also involved in proof of concepts (POCs), database design, querying data, monitoring microservices on NewRelic, client interaction, and handling a small team. He is also responsible for code reviews, secure applications, and code quality improvements. Gaurav has previously worked as an Assistant Manager at Zappfresh and as a Software Engineer at Tatras Data. In both roles, he was responsible for estimating, designing, and developing microservices from scratch, involvement in proof of concepts (POCs), database design, querying data, and enhancements and bug fixings. Gaurav holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from Gautam Budhha Technical University. He is proficient in Microservices, Spring, Java, Spring Boot, Azure, New Relic, MySQL, MongoDB, NoSQL, Web, test, Apache Hive, Software Engineer, and DevOps. Overall, Gaurav Kumar (Shakya) is a highly skilled and experienced developer with a strong technical background and expertise in developing and designing microservices-based applications from scratch. He is a valuable asset to any organization looking to enhance their technical capabilities and improve their application development processes.