Sample resume · 8 years · senior engineer

Full-Stack Developer resume sample

Java, Spring Boot and React across the stack, growing from feature work into technical ownership.

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ABDUL KALAM
Senior Full-Stack Developer · Java, Spring Boot, React
abdul.demo@example.com | Chennai, Tamil Nadu

SUMMARY
Full-stack developer with 8 years building web applications in Java, Spring Boot, React and PostgreSQL. Moved from shipping features to owning services end to end: API design, database performance, CI/CD and on-call. Looking for a senior full-stack role where I can own a product area and raise code quality across the team.

EXPERIENCE
Senior Software Engineer, Contoso Logistics, Chennai
Mar 2021 – Present
- Own the shipment-tracking service (Spring Boot, PostgreSQL) and its React dashboard, from design reviews to production support
- Redesigned the tracking REST API with pagination and ETags, cutting average response time from 900 ms to 250 ms
- Added query plans, indexes and a read replica for reporting, removing timeouts during month-end peaks
- Set up GitHub Actions pipelines with contract tests and blue-green deploys; releases went from monthly to weekly
- Lead code reviews for 4 developers and wrote the team's API style guide
Software Engineer, Fabrikam Software, Bengaluru
Jul 2018 – Feb 2021
- Built billing and invoicing features in Spring Boot and React for a B2B SaaS product
- Integrated 3 payment gateways behind one internal interface, so adding a provider no longer touched billing code
- Raised unit and integration test coverage on the billing module from 40% to 75%
Associate Software Engineer, Tailspin Technologies, Chennai
Jun 2016 – Jun 2018
- Developed internal admin screens in React and REST endpoints in Java for a ticketing product
- Fixed production bugs from the support queue and documented root causes for the team wiki

PROJECTS
Feature-flag service
Small internal service for gradual rollouts
- Spring Boot API with a React admin page; teams roll out features to a share of users and roll back without a deploy
Tech: Java, Spring Boot, React, Redis
Open-source contribution
Bug fixes to a Java PDF-generation library
- Fixed font-embedding issues for Indian-language text and added regression tests
Tech: Java, JUnit

EDUCATION
B.E., Computer Science and Engineering
Riverside College of Engineering | Chennai | 2016

SKILLS
Languages: Java, TypeScript, SQL
Frameworks: Spring Boot, React, Hibernate
Data: PostgreSQL, Redis
Cloud & DevOps: AWS (EC2, RDS, S3), Docker, GitHub Actions
Practices: REST API design, automated testing, code review

CERTIFICATIONS
AWS Certified Developer – Associate | Amazon Web Services | 2022