About

Rajesh Kumar Karnena is an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in computer software industry. He is highly skilled in Java, Spring, Kafka, ELK, Data Structures and Algorithms. Rajesh holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. Currently, Rajesh works as a Senior Software Engineer at HelloFresh, where he has been working for over six years. He is responsible for developing and maintaining highly scalable and available transactional communications platforms. Before joining HelloFresh, Rajesh worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Walmart, where he built and maintained a highly scalable and available transactional communications platform for Walmart eCommerce. He also rebuilt the legacy application's content compilation functionality into a microservice, which saved the efforts of rewriting 400+ Email/SMS/Push templates. Rajesh successfully handled the migration of 1200+ events from a legacy platform to a modern microservices platform, which included planning the testing and migration strategy based on the volume and criticality of events. Rajesh is a skilled engineer who has explored and implemented open-source solutions to solve certain functionalities. He has also designed and implemented Restful APIs for various services like URL Shortner, Customer Preference Management, etc. Rajesh has built an end-to-end monitoring framework for the platform and reliability summary dashboards using Splunk, Grafana, and Kibana. Rajesh completed his schooling from St. Joseph's High School, Srikakulam, and Sri Chaitanya Jr. College, Visakhapatnam. He earned his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. Rajesh's technical skills include Software Engineering, Microservices, Java, Kafka, Spring, test, and Azure. With over six years of relevant experience, Rajesh is a strong engineering professional who is always eager to learn new technologies and explore innovative solutions.