High-volume rewards redemption services
Designed and delivered backend services for a real-time rewards redemption platform handling 1,400+ TPS, including statement credit and enrollment workflows.
Software Engineer · Backend · Cloud · Distributed Systems
Arjun Borkhatariya
Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable web applications and distributed systems using Java, React, AWS, Kafka, and SQL. I focus on reliable backend systems, cloud platforms, and simple, maintainable solutions to real business problems.
Featured work
Three strong projects, written like case studies.
PCF to OpenShift migration
Migrated critical production services from Pivotal Cloud Foundry to OpenShift with containerized deployments, maintaining zero downtime and 99.9%+ availability.
Secure cloud integration and optimization
Migrated services to Amazon CloudAuth, configured IAM, Route 53, and VPC endpoints, and reduced Lambda infrastructure costs by 30% for a large ingestion pipeline.
Experience
Recent roles and the work that mattered most.
May 2023 – Present
Senior Associate Application Engineer · Discover Financial Services
Chicago, IL
- Built Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs integrated with Kafka for rewards redemption and notification workflows.
- Led production migration from PCF to OpenShift while maintaining high availability.
- Improved monitoring with Datadog dashboards, Kibana logging, and alerting.
Jul 2022 – Apr 2023
Software Development Engineer · Amazon
Seattle, WA
- Migrated a financial service to Amazon CloudAuth using IAM policies, Route 53 DNS, and VPC endpoints.
- Optimized Lambda memory settings for a data ingestion pipeline and reduced infrastructure cost by 30%.
- Built a Java CLI testing tool for rule execution validation across multiple domains and regions.
2018 – 2020
Earlier engineering roles · Emxcel and Infoware
Ahmedabad, India
- Built backend APIs in Python and FastAPI and improved response performance over a prior Flask implementation.
- Developed chatbot and NLP-based systems, including auto-suggestion and adaptive testing workflows.
Skills
Technologies I use across backend, cloud, and full-stack work.
Backend & Data
Service design, APIs, event-driven systems, and production reliability.
Java
Spring Boot
REST APIs
Kafka
RabbitMQ
SQL
Redis
PostgreSQL
Cloud & Engineering
Deployment, observability, infrastructure, and delivery tooling.
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
OpenShift
Jenkins
CI/CD
Datadog
Kibana