Krishna Teja

Experience

1. Senior Full Stack Cloud Developer

   GEICO

   Dec 2023 — Present · MD, US

   At GEICO, I lead transformative initiatives to modernize and optimize enterprise applications, driving measurable improvements in system reliability and scalability. I engineered event-driven microservices using Spring Boot, Docker, and Kubernetes, which reduced system downtime by 30% and significantly enhanced horizontal scalability. By building Kafka-powered real-time data pipelines and Spark Structured Streaming jobs, I automated claims processing workflows, cutting manual validation efforts by 35%.My focus on security led to the development of RESTful APIs secured with OAuth 2.0 and JWT, resulting in a 35% decrease in unauthorized access incidents. I also pioneered the use of gRPC microservices with optimized Protobuf serialization, reducing payload sizes by 40% and improving inter-service communication latency.I successfully migrated monolithic Java applications to cloud-native architectures across AWS and GCP, enabling high-availability analytics pipelines processing over 10 million policy records. By automating batch processing of 500K+ daily records with Spring Batch and Cron, I reduced manual overhead by 50% and ensured strict SLA compliance.In my role, I also directed CI/CD pipeline automation leveraging Jenkins, Terraform, and containerization, achieving zero-downtime deployments and accelerating release cadence by 40%. Enhanced monitoring and logging through AWS CloudWatch and Splunk dashboards improved mean time to detection and recovery by up to 45%. Additionally, I lead Agile ceremonies and enforce GitFlow best practices, increasing team throughput by 25%.

Education

• Anna University

  Bachelor's degree

  2016 — 2020

• Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

  Master's degree

  2021 — 2023