Satya Kumar Aravapalli

About Satya Kumar Aravapalli

Backend Developer and Site Reliability Engineer with hands-on experience designing, building, deploying, and supporting distributed systems in production environments.As a Backend Engineer, I develop scalable microservices using Java and Spring Boot, design RESTful APIs, and build high-performance backend systems. I also have working knowledge of React for frontend integration and full-stack collaboration.As an SRE, I focus on reliability, observability, infrastructure automation, and production stability across cloud-native platforms.Core Expertise:• Backend Development: Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices• Frontend: React (UI integration & component-based architecture)• Cloud & Containers: AWS (MSK, EKS, EC2, IAM, CloudWatch), Kubernetes, Docker• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform• Messaging Systems: Apache Kafka / MSK – consumer lag analysis, partition rebalancing, offset management• Observability: Dynatrace, Datadog, CloudWatch• CI/CD & Automation: Harness pipelines• Incident Management & Production SupportExperienced in debugging distributed systems, reducing Kafka consumer lag, optimizing JVM and Kubernetes resource allocation, implementing infrastructure using Terraform, and improving MTTR through proactive monitoring and alert tuning.

Experience

1. Full Stack Engineer

   United Airlines

   Jun 2022 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Built and deployed Java Spring Boot microservices on AWS EKS, supporting real-time operational systems and improving service reliability across distributed production environments. • Developed React.js interfaces with REST and WebSocket integration, enabling real-time data visibility and improving usability of internal operations tools used by business teams. • Stabilized production workloads by tuning Kubernetes CPU and memory configurations, eliminating throttling issues and improving system performance during peak traffic conditions. • Led production incident investigations and root cause analysis, resolving issues related to resource saturation, excessive logging, and API inefficiencies, reducing recurring system failures.

Education

• Missouri State University

  Master's degree, Computer Science

• Vasavi College of Engg

  Information Technology

  2015 — 2019