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Kaushalya is a problem solver and critical thinker with a passion for designing and developing solutions to complex problems. With over 18 years of experience, he has led and mentored technical teams, actively contributing to the design and development of Payments, Banking, Insurance, Electricity/Energy, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions. Kaushalya is not only a good listener but also a lifelong learner with a growth mindset. He stays up-to-date with cutting-edge technology, ensuring he chooses the right tools for effective solutions. Kaushalya thrives on the collaborative energy of working in team environments.Specialties========* Spring Framework - Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring MVC for REST, Spring Integration* API Design and Management - OpenAPI 3, specification based code generation (API First), code based specification generation (Code First), Versioning, Kong (incl. plugin development in Lua)* High Performance Messaging and Event Processing - RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Nifi, some exposure to RSocket, Reactive (non-blocking) programming in Spring* Java Application Monitoring - JMX, Jolokia, Spring Actuator, JDK Mission Control* Databases - PostgreSQL (incl. performance tuning and monitoring), Oracle DB, Mongo DB and MySQL* Cloud - AWS Fundamentals (currently preparing for the AWS Solutions Architect - Associate certification exam)* Security - OAuth2 + OpenID Connect, sound knowledge in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)* Data Analytics and Machine Learnings - R language, Python, Jupyter Notebooks, Matplotlib, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow, BentoML* Build Tools - Maven, some exposure to Gradle* Source Control - Git, Branching Strategies* Code Quality Analysis - SonarQube * Scripting - Python, Bash, Sed & Awk* Continuous Integration and Delivery - Jenkins CI, pipelines, declarative configuration* Infrastructure as code - Kubernetes, Docker (incl. docker-compose), Vagrant* IDEs - IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, Vim* CI/CD automation and monitoring - GitLab Pipelines, Jenkins Pipelines, Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, ELK, Splunk* Web Servers and Application containers - httpd, Nginx, HA Proxy, Wildfly, Tomcat, Websphere AS* Design Patterns - GoF, Enterprise Integration Patterns* Agile Methodologies - Scrum, Kanban* Documentation as code - Markdown (.md), Asciidoc (.adoc)* Operating Systems - Linux (Fedora/CentOS/RHEL, Ubuntu/Debian), numerous Unix distributions, macOS, Windows

Listed skills include Java, Agile Methodologies, Microservices, Hands On Technical Leadership, and 3 others.