About

Virendra Chaudhary is a highly skilled IT professional with over 11 years of experience in design, development, and testing. He has significant experience in defining high and low-level design, interface design with REST API, and expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and Hibernate. Currently, he is working as a Senior Software Development Engineer at Expedia. In his current role, Virendra has designed and implemented SchemeDeploy tool, which is managing schema, user, and governance of more than a thousand databases that are spread across hundreds of AWS accounts. He has also designed and implemented self-serve DataPul API to take requests for running scheduled spark jobs in AWS EMR cluster, reducing job setting up time by 50%. Virendra has worked on designing DataReplicator tool to self-serve managing of Kafka Connectors and implemented event-driven architecture to communicate across Microservices, which has helped scaling microservices. Virendra has integrated with Okta and LDAP for authentication and authorization of APIs, designed database models for different Microservices in MySQL and postgreSQL databases, and created a CICD pipeline for building and deploying applications in Kubernetes cluster using Jenkins and Spinnaker. He has worked on managing the state of databases and promoting schema changes, which has expedited prod deployment by 25%. Virendra has also supported schema management of platforms like Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hive, Elasticsearch, Kafka topics, etc. He has designed the Scrum Poker application using Spring Boot and React, which has made backlog grooming 20% more productive. Before joining Expedia, Virendra worked as a Software Development Engineer at Ola, where he designed automation frameworks for testing REST APIs and managed the test suites, test data, and reports. He implemented multi-threaded scripts execution, improving execution time by 70%. Virendra also created a postman script to validate billing response, which quickened the manual testing by 30%. Virendra holds a B.Tech degree in Electronics & Communication from Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Sultanpur. He completed his XIIth and Xth from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, specializing in Mathematics. Virendra is proficient in Software Engineering, Microservices, Spring Boot, Spring, Java, AWS, test, MySQL, Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Elastic Search, Jenkins, Apache Hive, and SDET. He has 12.