Rahul Kumar

About Rahul Kumar

Highly skilled and results-driven software development professional with over 14 years of experience in designing, developing, and implementing scalable and resilient systems. Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, Kafka, Cassandra, reactive programming, Docker, Kubernetes etc with a proven track record of leading technical projects and delivering customized solutions. Adept at collaborating with clients to align business objectives with technical strategies, ensuring high client satisfaction. Strong leadership and problem-solving abilities with a focus on mentoring teams and driving innovation.Technical Skills • Programming Languages: Java, Python (basic) • Data Structures & Algorithms: Proficient in data structures and algorithms. • Java Frameworks: Spring Boot, Spring MVC • Message Brokers: Kafka • ORM: Hibernate • In-memory data grids : Hazelcast • Microservices: Design and implementation of scalable microservices architectures • Reactive Programming: Experience with reactive paradigms • Web Services: RESTful APIs • Databases: NoSQL (Cassandra), SQL (Oracle) • Containerization & Orchestration: GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes • Version Control & Tools: Git, Jira • Monitoring: Grafana • IDEs: IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse

Experience

1. Staff Engineer

   Rakuten India

   Oct 2025 — Present

Education

• SRM IST Chennai

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology

  2007 — 2011

• Dhanbad Public School

  HSC, Science

  2005 — 2006

Skills

• Tomcat
• Microsoft Office
• Sonar
• Ajax
• Databases
• Groovy
• Json
• Junit
• Weblogic
• Pl/Sql
• Eclipse
• Jsp
• Intellij Idea
• Javascript
• Oracle
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Html
• Mvc
• J2ee Application Development
• Web Development
• Sql
• Hibernate
• Grails
• Core Java
• Spring Framework
• Java
• Spring
• Jquery
• Web Applications
• C
• Programming
• Software Development