# Preetham Mukkara > Engineering @ Raft Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/preethammukkara I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, and a minor in Entrepreneurship. I am currently pursuing a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas - Austin. Always open to discussing & solving unique problems in interesting fields, feel free to shoot me a message! ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Raft Jan 2024 – Present Making Aviation better ### Software Engineer - Search Platform @ Target Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States - Developed a user-friendly UI, using ReactJS and material UI, that allows data scientists to visualize how different endpoints and data models return items given a keyword - Built an application in Kotlin, Micronaut, and Gradle that consumed from a Kafka topic performed stateless operations and produced to a Kafka topic via the KStreams DSL - Optimized product relevance rule processing by migrating from a Solr database to an in-memory key-value store, reducing pipeline complexity and network calls; led the migration process, including testing and deployment ### Software Engineer - Apply for Redcard @ Target Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States - Researched and Implemented a robust API to validate routing numbers within the ACH banking network - Developed a run-to-completion job that processes 17,000 lines of data and updates a Postgres Database with banks and routing numbers from the ACH network fetched from a government site every 24 hours - Built a containerized application with Kotlin, Gradle, Micronaut, Swagger, and Docker Engine, employing the onion architecture principles for enhanced scalability and maintainability - Orchestrated the deployment of the application on an internal custom alternative to Kubernetes, ensuring seamless hosting and performance optimization - Fostered collaborative development by effectively utilizing Github and Vela for streamlined teamwork and version control - Developed comprehensive test suites, including unit, functional, and integration tests, utilizing Kotest to guarantee code reliability and functionality ### Software Engineer - Ivy Pricing @ Target Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States - Built an internal tool that allows pricing managers to see end to end pricing set up across applications and within departments in the merch hierarchy - Built aggregation services in Java leveraging Kafka, enriching data, and persisting it in Elasticsearch for efficient data management - Developed a user-friendly UI using ReactJS, Redux, and the material UI framework to facilitate seamless navigation and accessibility - Ensured robustness and reliability with comprehensive backend testing utilizing JUnit, and frontend testing employing Jest and Enzyme ### Software Engineer @ Last Lock Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States - Researched, designed, and developed backend software to build a Typescript server and Go Microservice with a Mongo Database to relay information for smart locks and implement a Role Based Access Control system (RBAC) for security hosted on an AWS EC2 instance - Implemented backend testing for the Typescript server, utilizing Jest and Supertest to ensure high-quality code and functionality - Executed comprehensive testing for the Golang Microservice, leveraging the Gomock framework and Go's in-built testing package for reliable and efficient validation ### Software Engineer Intern @ Target Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States •Worked in Kotlin to implement support-api functionality that enables team members to reduce time taken to pinpoint issues by over 50% while adhering to Agile Principles supplemented by a Jira board •Implemented a User Interface for support-api functionality in React and Typescript •Implemented unit, functional, and integration testing for both backend in Groovy and frontend services in Javascript to ensure efficiency and tracked metrics in Grafana. •Utilized Mongo Databases with MongoDB Compass to build Aggregation Pipelines that assisted in support api functionality ### Software Developer Intern @ Klatch Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area • Conducted product development (Miro and Proto.io), market research, and product management (Asana) for an online job site start up • Implemented testing with cutting edge Machine Learning Model (NLP/GPT-3) based on ML optimized algorithms • Implemented APIs into the webpage and provided technical direction into the usefulness of REST APIs and demonstrated proficient knowledge in API usage ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science The University of Texas at Austin ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science University of Wisconsin-Madison ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics University of Wisconsin-Madison ### Minor in Entrepreneurship in Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/preethammu - Portfolio: https://preethammukkara.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/preethammukkara JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/preethammukkara/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30