Pratik Nayak — Backend Engineer

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Summary

Detail-oriented backend engineer with 4.9 years designing, building and deploying scalable microservices in high-throughput enterprise environments. Track record delivering enterprise software across supply chain, banking and e-commerce domains inside Agile teams — with a habit of leaving systems more secure, better tested and easier to trace than I found them.

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Articles

July 4, 2026

What I actually learned building idempotent payment APIs

Retry storms, idempotency keys, and the client-side state machine that finally stopped double-charging people.

2 min read

July 4, 2026

Kafka Consumer Groups: What Actually Happens During a Rebalance

A practical walkthrough of partition assignment, rebalancing, and the config knobs that decide whether your consumers hiccup or fall over.

3 min read

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Experience

Software Engineer 2 · Blue Yonder

ACTIVE

Bengaluru · Aug 2024 — Present

Designed and implemented RBAC across Java and Python microservices, strengthening API security and auditability.
Built the Slotting Item Moves feature, a core part of the application's overall flow.
Developed and optimized data aggregation APIs, cutting cross-service dependencies and improving response times.
Automated CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, sharply reducing manual release effort.
Implemented Post-Deployment Validation to cut down manual sanity testing.
Migrated SFQL scripts to Liquibase, adding auditability to DDL changes.
Found and remediated critical API vulnerabilities via 42-Crunch, keeping the service aligned with industry security standards.
Raised unit test coverage using JUnit 5 and Mockito, and cleared issues flagged by Blackduck scans.

−80% manual release effort −70% manual sanity testing 20+ vulnerabilities remediated 90% unit test coverage

Application Development Analyst · Accenture

COMPLETED

Bengaluru · Aug 2021 — Aug 2024

Built REST endpoints for consumer microservices, enabling seamless service-to-service communication.
Migrated the application from Java 11 to Java 17, improving garbage collection speed.
Decoupled the microservice architecture, speeding up releases and making bugs easier to trace.
Wrote comprehensive unit tests with JUnit and Mockito, lifting coverage on assigned classes past 90%.
Modernized a client application, moving it from Struts to Spring MVC.
Replaced EJB usage with plain service classes, improving performance and cutting memory usage.
Ran Agile Scrum in a 6-person cross-functional team, hitting sprint releases on time consistently.

+17% GC speed +20% faster releases 90%+ test coverage

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Skills

Languages

Java 8Java 21Python 3.11

Backend & Frameworks

Spring CoreSpring MVCSpring BootSpring Data JPASpring RESTMicroservices

Data & Storage

OracleSnowflakeSQLKafka

Cloud

Azure Key VaultBlob StorageContainer Registry

AI Tooling

GitHub CopilotClaude CodeCodacy MCP Server

Platform & Ops

JUnit 5MockitoMavenGitHub ActionsSplunkCodacyKafkaPostmanNewRelicGit42-CrunchBlackduckDocker

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Education & recognition

Education

B.Tech, Electronics & Communication Engineering

Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar · 2021

8.51 CGPA

Senior Secondary Certificate

DAV Public School, C.D.A, Cuttack · 2017

84.4%

Secondary School Certificate

DAV Public School, C.D.A, Cuttack · 2015

10 CGPA

Google Associate Cloud Engineer

Google Cloud Platform · 2024 · Certification

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Pratik Nayak
builds backend systems that stay up.