Experience — Rahul Reddy Chidipudi

02/2026 — Present CURRENT

NextGen IT Solutions · Ashburn, VA

Migrated legacy REST endpoints to gRPC microservices in Go, cutting average API latency from 180ms to 95ms and cloud compute costs by 15%.
Containerized backend services with Docker and deployed on AWS EKS, reducing deployment rollback incidents by 40% through automated canary releases.
Designed event-driven pipelines with Apache Kafka and PostgreSQL, processing 500GB of telemetry daily for dashboards used by 5 business units.
Raised code coverage from 68% to 89% across the core services repo with PyTest and JUnit integration and unit tests.
Built CI/CD with GitHub Actions, taking build-to-deploy from 45 minutes to 12.

02/2025 — 01/2026

Appworks · Ashburn, VA

Developed secure REST APIs in Java (Spring Boot) for user authentication, serving 200 concurrent internal users at under 65ms average response.
Refactored slow SQL with composite indexes and rewritten joins, improving read performance on a 2M-row PostgreSQL table by 40%.
Provisioned Linux staging environments and resolved TCP/IP issues — DNS resolution, DHCP leases, firewall misconfigurations — to hold service uptime.
Wrote Terraform for AWS environments (VPC, subnets, EC2, RDS), taking setup from 2 days to under 2 hours.

05/2022 — 09/2022

DXC Technology · Hyderabad, TG

Built RESTful APIs in Java (Spring Boot) for internal project-management dashboards serving 50 concurrent users.
Wrote complex SQL and stored procedures on Oracle for weekly compliance reports, cutting manual reporting by 10 hours per week.
Configured and maintained Linux development servers, troubleshooting TCP/IP and DNS connectivity.
Documented endpoints with Swagger and wrote onboarding guides, reducing new-intern ramp-up by 30%.