Bala Venkatesh Devabathini

Experience

1. Java Full Stack Developer

   JPMorganChase

   Oct 2023 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Built a secure real-time payment gateway using Java 21, Spring Boot, Kafka, Flink, and Angular 16.Integrated Redis, Cassandra, and IBM MQ for scalable microservices.Developed and optimized Flink-based stream processors.Ensured compliance with PCI-DSS, 3DS2, WCAG standards.Used Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform for deployment automation.Implemented tokenization and encryption for secure payment data.Built reusable UI components in Angular and React.js.Developed Spring Batch jobs for seed data migration from DB2 to Cassandra.Created Apache Camel routes for message routing.Developed Jenkins pipelines using Groovy and GitHub Actions.Documented REST APIs with Swagger.Deployed Fircosoft Continuity V6 components on Linux environments with Oracle DB integration for high-volume OFAC-compliant payment screening.Installed and configured Fircosoft Screening Box and tuned alert rules (AHQ, Workflow Accelerator, Stripping Detector) for reduced false positives.Managed containerized Fircosoft services using Kubernetes, Helm, and Jenkins for resilient and scalable deployment across AWS EC2 instances.Integrated IBM MQ with Fircosoft and Spring Boot-based microservices for real-time sanction screening of SWIFT/ISO messages.Automated deployment pipelines using Shell scripting, Terraform, and CI/CD tools, enabling seamless updates to Fircosoft configurations.Supported compliance and audit teams by exposing real-time screening metrics via Spring Boot Actuator and Grafana dashboards.Created Kafka dead-letter queues and error handlers to ensure reliable OFAC alert ingestion and retry logic.Tech Stack: Java 21, Spring Boot, Angular 16, React.js, Apache Kafka, Flink, Redis, Cassandra, IBM MQ, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Swagger, Postman, Selenium.