Akhil Chowdary Narra

About Akhil Chowdary Narra

I am a senior Java full-stack developer with 3 years of experience building scalable…

Experience

1. Full Stack Developer

   Verizon

   Jul 2024 — Present · NJ, US

   Architected and implemented reactive REST and GraphQL APIs using.NET and Spring WebFlux, enabling non-blocking, high-concurrency request handling and reducing response latency for enterprise-scale services.• Architected event-driven microservices using Spring Boot, Kafka, and Domain-Driven Design, enhancing service modularity, reliability, and consistency of distributed transactions.• Developed serverless APIs with Azure Functions, orchestrated via Azure API Management, streamlining lightweight processing and reducing cloud infrastructure overhead.• Containerized backend services with Docker and deployed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), ensuring fault-tolerant, auto-scaled, and resilient microservice deployments.• Engineered persistence layers using Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL) and Azure SQL Database, optimizing query execution, ensuring ACID-compliant transactions, and supporting high-concurrency workloads.• Implemented enterprise-grade security with OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and JWT, enforcing role-based access control and secure API communication across distributed microservices.• Refactored legacy synchronous services into reactive microservices leveraging Spring WebFlux and Project Reactor, enabling non-blocking I/O processing, improved thread utilization, and high-concurrency support for enterprise workloads.• Configured API Gateway for dynamic routing, request throttling, and centralized logging, integrating OAuth2-based security and observability features to manage and secure multi-tenant client traffic.• Designed CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, incorporating unit testing with JUnit 5, mocking with Mockito, and automated deployment of containerized services to AKS clusters, ensuring consistent, repeatable delivery.• Applied advanced performance tuning strategies in Java SE 17 and Spring Boot, including reactive thread pool configuration, GC optimization, connection pool management, and query caching,