Chidananda Gonuguntla

About Chidananda Gonuguntla

1) From building high-volume data adapters for financial systems to architecting cloud-native platforms that process tens of millions of transactions daily, I’ve spent my career designing and delivering technology that powers mission-critical enterprise solutions.2) I started as a consultant, engineering generic, reusable adapters to fetch and process data from Kafka, databases, flat files, and Tableau Data Lake—scaling ingestion to multi-GB datasets and millions of records per batch. My work reduced onboarding time for new data sources by 50% and improved ETL throughput by 40%.3) As a senior software engineer, I focused on enterprise metadata governance, building Spring Boot applications to fetch, cleanse, and serve 5M+ records daily from Alation with 99.9% accuracy, integrated with Angular-based reporting tools. These solutions cut manual cleanup by 70% and enhanced compliance readiness through Collibra alignment.4) Today, as a principal software engineer, I lead the design of microservices-based, event-driven architectures on AWS and GCP, leveraging Kafka, Spring Cloud, Neo4j, and Kubernetes to deliver secure, scalable platforms for financial transaction processing. I mentor engineering teams, drive DevOps automation, and ensure every system I build is both performant and resilient.

Experience

1. Principal Software Engineer

   DATAECONOMY

   Jun 2025 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   1) Architected and delivered microservices-based platforms supporting high-volume financial transactions, reducing API response times by 30% and increasing system uptime to 99.99%.2) Led cloud migration to AWS & GCP, implementing container orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS & GKE), resulting in 50% faster deployments and improved scalability.3) Implemented event-driven pipelines with Apache Kafka, enabling real-time processing of 10M+ messages/day for fraud detection, transaction enrichment, and analytics.4) Developed secure Spring Boot/Spring Cloud services with Spring Security, ensuring compliance with enterprise security policies and GDPR.5) Mentored a team of 8+ engineers on best practices in Java, DevOps, and cloud-native architectures, improving delivery speed and code quality.6) Automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform, reducing manual deployment effort by 70%.

Education

• Bangalore University

  Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Science

  2005 — 2008

• Sri Vidyanikethan High School

  SSC

  1994 — 1999

Skills

• Web Services
• Spring
• Jboss Application Server
• Spring Mvc
• Jdbc
• Agile Methodologies
• Jboss
• Html
• Spring Micro Services
• Spring Integration
• Sql
• Restful Webservices
• Hibernate
• Pl/Sql
• Ejb
• Core Java
• Sun Certified Web Component Developer
• Jsp
• Spring Framework
• Spring Data
• Java
• Wicket
• Xml
• Jprofiler
• Spring Boot
• Javascript Frameworks
• Struts
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Activiti
• Angularjs
• Servlets
• Javascript
• Sun Certified Java Programmer
• Liferay
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• J2ee
• Tomcat
• Spring Data Jpa