Lead Java / Principal Software Engineer with 14+ years of experience architecting, building, optimizing, and scaling enterprise-grade backend platforms. I specialize in Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate ORM, and PostgreSQL, with deep expertise in performance engineering, distributed systems, and reliability. I thrive in solving complex system design challenges, mentoring engineers, and enabling AI-driven backend platforms that operate reliably at scale.
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🔭 I’m currently working on Elavon Agent Toolkit SDK – API Reference for MCP Tool
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🌱 I’m currently learning MCP
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👯 I’m looking to collaborate on ACP Ecommerce POC
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🤝 I’m looking for help with L1X ElavonX Migrator
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👨💻 All of my projects are available at https://github.com/dvnharish
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💬 Ask me about Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, System Design, Performance Tuning, Distributed Systems, Microservices, and Backend Architecture
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📫 How to reach me venkatworks.ca@gmail.com
14+ years of experience owning the full SDLC—from requirements analysis and system design to implementation, optimization, production support, and modernization of large-scale enterprise systems.
- Designed and governed scalable, fault-tolerant, and highly available backend architectures
- Strong ownership of non-functional requirements: performance, reliability, observability, and security
- Led architectural reviews, performance audits, and technology selection decisions
- Java 8 / 11 / 17, Spring Boot 2.x / 3.x
- Spring Data JPA, Hibernate ORM, Spring Security
- REST APIs, OpenAPI, asynchronous and reactive programming
- Advanced Hibernate ORM usage:
- Second-level caching
- Fetch strategies and batch processing
- Transaction management, Criteria API, HQL optimization
- PostgreSQL expertise:
- Schema design, indexing, partitioning
- Query tuning using
EXPLAIN ANALYZE - Connection pooling and high-load performance optimization
- Event-driven architectures using Kafka and Kafka Streams
- Service-to-service communication, API gateways, and BFF patterns
- Designed systems handling millions of requests and events per day
- JVM tuning, GC optimization, thread pool management
- Redis-based caching strategies (read-through, write-behind)
- SLO / SLI-driven monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK
- Resilience patterns: retries, circuit breakers, graceful degradation
- Backend integration for ML / AI models
- Asynchronous inference pipelines and workload isolation
- Data-intensive backend platforms supporting AI workflows
- JavaScript, React
- Next.js (API routes, SSR integration with backend services)
- Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architecture design
- AWS and Azure
- Docker, Kubernetes (AKS / EKS)
- CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab CI
- Messaging systems: Kafka, RabbitMQ
- JUnit, Mockito, REST-assured
- Performance testing with Gatling and JMeter
- Static analysis and quality gates (SonarQube)
- Principal engineer owning backend architecture, performance, and reliability
- Optimized Hibernate + PostgreSQL layers achieving 60–70% query performance improvement
- Designed platforms processing 5M+ records per day
- Integrated AI/ML workflows with asynchronous backend pipelines
- Achieved 99.99% SLA through resilience engineering and observability
- Built real-time observability platforms processing 10M+ events/day
- Designed sub-millisecond Kafka Streams processing pipelines
- Implemented high-concurrency WebFlux services (100K+ connections)
- Reduced response times by 80% using Redis caching strategies
- Decomposed monoliths into 15+ microservices
- Hibernate & SQL tuning reduced database latency by 60%
- Led adoption of TDD (90% coverage) and CI/CD pipelines
- Mentored teams on clean code and microservices best practices
- Architected ultra-low-latency IoT systems for 100K+ vehicles
- Event-driven safety alerts with p99 latency < 10ms
- Kafka + MQTT ingestion at massive scale
- Reduced infrastructure costs by 75% through serverless optimization
- Master of Technology (M.Tech) – JNTU Kakinada Research in Machine Learning-based Image Annotation Systems
I use GitHub to:
- Share architectural patterns and backend design concepts
- Experiment with performance optimization techniques
- Build developer tooling, SDKs, and backend frameworks
- Document learnings around distributed systems and AI-enabled platforms

