Backend-focused engineer building scalable, distributed systems across both the Node.js/AWS and Java/Spring ecosystems — REST & GraphQL APIs, event-driven architectures, cloud infrastructure, and increasingly, LLM-powered agentic workflows.
- 🏗️ I build backend systems end-to-end — API design, data modeling, caching, deployment, and observability
- 🔀 Comfortable working across two backend ecosystems: Node.js/TypeScript on AWS, and Java/Spring Boot on Kubernetes
- 📨 Experienced with event-driven architecture — background workers, message queues, webhook pipelines, and Kafka-based streaming
- 🔐 Strong focus on secure, well-tested services — JWT, OAuth2, RBAC, and high automated test coverage
- 🤖 Recently building LLM-powered agentic workflows — RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector search, and tool-calling (including LangChain-based agents)
- ☁️ Deep AWS experience, plus Docker/Kubernetes-based deployment pipelines
- 📫 Reach me at shikhar.dev2001@gmail.com
Languages: Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, C++, HTML5, CSS3, SQL
Backend & Frameworks: Node.js, Express.js, Django, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate, Microservices Architecture, Event-Driven Architecture, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, WebSockets, Apache Kafka, Spring Cloud, Prisma, Background Workers, Message Queues
Frontend: React, Redux, Next.js, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, AJAX, JSON
Databases & Storage: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Database Design & Indexing, Query Optimization, Caching Strategies, Database Migration
Cloud, DevOps & Infra: AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, Cognito, CloudWatch, IAM, SQS), Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, NGINX, CI/CD, Terraform
Security & Auth: JWT, OAuth2, RBAC, Spring Security
AI / Agentic Systems: LLM Integration, RAG, Embeddings, Vector Search, Tool Calling, LangChain4j, AI Agent Workflows
Testing & Tools: Git, GitHub, Jest, JUnit, Mockito, Cypress, Postman, Swagger, SonarQube, Firebase, Jira, Agile Methodology, Maven, Gradle
- M.S. in Computer Science — Stevens Institute of Technology
- B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering — Vellore Institute of Technology
Open to backend / full-stack engineering opportunities.