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RAHUL VERMA

RAHUL VERMA

Backend Engineer

2+ yrs exp 85 · Excellent

About

Backend Engineer with 2+ years of hands-on experience working on production system and building scalable microservices using Java and SpringBoot. Skilled In designing distributed systems with Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Improving API performance through caching, query optimization and database indexing. Experienced in secure REST API development using JWT, Spring Security, and OWASP practices, along with CI/CD, Redis caching.

Skills & Expertise (38)

Java Advanced
8.1/10
2
Years Exp
Microservices Advanced
8.0/10
2
Years Exp
SpringBoot Advanced
7.9/10
2
Years Exp
REST APIs Advanced
7.8/10
2
Years Exp
Apache Kafka Advanced
7.7/10
2
Years Exp
Jenkins Maven Postman Log4j Swagger JUnit JMeter Mockito Docker H2 AWS (EC2 AWS (S3 JWT SAST Black Duck SonarQube Checkmarx Git Neo4j MySql Resilience4j Redis RabbitMQ Multithreading Concurrency LLD HLD Spring Security Hibernate Spring Data JPA Spring Framework SQL JavaScript

Work Experience

Java Backend Engineer

Cognizant

Jun 2023 - Sep 2025

Designed and developed 20+ scalable RESTful microservices handling high-volume traffic. Reduced API latency from 450 ms to 300 ms (30%) by query optimization, database indexing. Resolved 1000+ security vulnerabilities (SQL Injection, XSS, CSRF) using SAST/DAST tools. Built asynchronous event-driven systems using Apache Kafka for reliable inter-service communication. Designed clean layered architecture (Controller → Service → Repository), improving maintainability. Implemented Pagination, filtering, and Swagger/Open API documentation.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) - NIT Raipur

2018 - 2022 · Afghanistan

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Profile Score Breakdown

📷 Photo 10/10
📄 Resume 10/10
💼 Job Title 10/10
✍️ Bio 10/10
🛠️ Skills 20/20
🎓 Education 10/10
⏱️ Experience 10/15
💰 Rate 0/5
🏆 Certs 0/5
Verified 5/5
Total Score 85/100

Profile Overview

Member sinceApr 2026

Availability Details

Visa Status

Citizen

Relocation

Open to Relocation