# Suraj Nair > Software Engineer | Java | LLM | AWS Bedrock | Microservices | Full Stack Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/surajnair Passionate Software Engineer with 7+ years of professional work experience in Retail business domain, Financial Services, Utilities, Investment Management Solutions, PetHealth, Pharmacy, Oil and Gas Expertise in Java, AWS, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, Web services Skilled in application development, technical architecture, and design, Microservices, AWS, Web Development, Testing Master of Science in Information Systems with a concentration in Software Engineering and Full-Stack development to backup my technical skillset Languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL, GraphQL Web Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Node.js, AJAX, JSP, jQuery, Express.js Frameworks: Spring Boot, Flask, React, Hibernate, Microservices, JUnit, Locust, RESTful APIs Databases: MySQL, MongoDB, SQL Server 17, Redis, Postgres AWS Services: AWS RDS, AWS S3, DynamoDB, AWS EC2, AWS EKS, AWS Lambda, AWS Elasticache Tools: Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Grafana, Hosted Graphite, Maven, ServiceNow, Git, Postman, Elasticsearch, BitBucket, Prometheus, Kibana, IntelliJ, Jira, Confluence ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer III @ Chewy Jan 2023 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Led a team of 5 engineers, providing initiative estimates, t-shirt sizing, and architectural guidance to ensure scalable and resilient product development. - Directed architecture reviews and guided application scaling with focus on active-active resiliency, API latency optimization, and efficient schema design. - Migrated team workloads from self-managed Kubernetes cluster to a shared EKS organization cluster, achieving $125k in annual savings and improving operational reliability. - Designed and implemented a shared Jenkins orchestration library for 12 teams, facilitating transition to the shared cluster and realizing $712k in annual savings. - Integrated an in-house LLM with OpenAPI documentation and SQL agent to build an AI incident response feature, reducing first response time by 50%. - Developed and deployed an XGBoost AI model in AWS SageMaker, connected to Spring Boot for shift planning operations, reducing a one-hour process to 5 minutes and saving $50k annually. ### Software Engineer II @ Chewy Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Designed and developed an inventory management system from scratch using PostgreSQL, Java 17, and Spring Boot 3 within a microservices architecture. - Built an event-driven, distributed workload management system leveraging AWS SQS and SNS, achieving fully automated real-time task processing and eliminating manual intervention. - Implemented a region-agnostic, high-availability architecture to increase fault tolerance, resiliency, and disaster recovery readiness across cloud environments. - Migrated AWS RDS databases to Amazon Aurora, provisioning infrastructure as code (IaC) and managing schema migrations with Flyway to improve auto-scaling, performance, and cost optimization. - Integrated CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments, reduce downtime, and ensure consistent delivery of database and application updates. ### Software Engineer II @ Fetch Rewards Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Chicago, Illinois, United States • Developing a personalized user experience using Go microservice • Contributing to engineering culture participating in code reviews, design discussions ### Software Engineer @ Fetch Rewards Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Chicago, Illinois, United States • Developed a Java-Spring-based microservice for managing a co-branded customer loyalty program helping create metrics for better user engagement • Created a deployment pipeline using Bitbucket pipeline for AWS services like AWS S3, Secrets Manager, EBS, Elasticache • Designed and implemented an AWS Lambda in Python to compress/decompress the data-heavy SNS stream handling custom exceptions and metrics using Grafana • Built load testing script in Python using Locust and generated report to future proof deployment of new service • Implemented Junit, Mockito, Pytest for unit testing and Integration tests ### Backend Engineering Intern @ Fetch Rewards Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States • Implemented a microservice in Spring Boot Java to communicate to other services and publish to a React dashboard using REST • Built a custom deployment using Bitbucket pipeline • Added Java docs and Junits to support 92% code coverage for the new module ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Greater Boston Area • Assessing and meticulously grading their professional writing assignments and conducting mock Java interviews • Mentoring 55 graduate students for professionalism, technical skills review, and communication tactics • Introducing students to the cooperative education program at Northeastern University ### Software Engineer Co-op @ Charles River Development Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Burlington, Massachusetts, United States • Created a tool to generate bulk stock orders using Java web APIs and SQL Server 17 helping set up test environments for regression tests and aide data creation for the QA team • Aided transitioning of primary financial services SaaS application into a dark theme UI supporting over 3 million customers leveraging the Factory design pattern using Scrum methodology and following TDD • Developed a well-documented tool to clear out standard formatting, easing out the flow of theme supported by custom framework by 65,000 lines making the framework lighter and reducing latency in theme rendering • Worked for the framework team providing a wrapper over existing WinForms components for customizations and helped standardize UI across the company's suite of products • Resolved over 77 issues individually by debugging over 5 months helping speed up theming project, delivering fixes over Perforce and TeamCity deployment pipeline • Collaborated with the Equity, Portfolio Manager and FX Trading teams to understand the Investment Management Solutions product by the company and the trading lifecycle ### Application Development Analyst @ Accenture Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Mumbai Area, India • Worked as an SAP IS-Utilities billing functional consultant for a US-based client in the regulated energy business spanning across 6 states • Sole member involved in the design and implementation of advanced metering infrastructure, a multi-million dollar project for normal to smart meter transition in an Agile setup • Created and updated High-Level design documents(HLDs) for the designing phase of the project as well as created Software Design Specification documents(SDSs) for each RICEF(Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms) designated for the next scrum • Developed 3 tools in SAP ABAP helping save 500 hours per year on billing configuration helping automate the process • Received the OutPerformAward from the resources business domain at Accenture for going beyond assigned duties and leveraging technology for innovation • Supported the successful go-live of a migration project from a legacy application to SAP ISU and helped stabilize the system and bring it up to speed for future developments by resolving critical defects reported in HP ALM and ServiceNow • Managed 35 defect fixes in production with a short turn around time and minimal impact on daily consumer billing ### Application Development Associate @ Accenture Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mumbai Area, India • Worked as a utilities billing functional consultant for a major US utility company, involved in core team for the development of billing-related configuration for a regulated energies market in the US • Involved in managing and testing Electricity and Gas bill generation of 4 million customers using SAP industry solutions utilities billing module • Designed, configured and performed unit testing for billing functionality pertaining to the latest regulations passed by the state governments across 6 major states • Developed a tool to replicate manual billing documents saving 300 hours yearly in efforts of recreating additional charges levied to major account billing • Initiated communication with stakeholders on possible roadblocks and led discussions on current design and possible solutions ### Associate Software Engineer @ Accenture Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Hyderabad Area, India • Maintained and created quality code in SAP IS-Oil module for the eight biggest oil & gas company(by revenue) in the world • Developed and maintained functionality for various flows in SAP ABAP, ensuring end-to-end client functionality from a marketing and sales perspective • Built interfaces to connect card transactions to the third party and government organization for proper compliance concerning sales reporting • Created an automated report helping save 480 hours annually in efforts to monitor data flow from external systems to check for meter read uploads and card transaction records being updated to the accounts department • Received the Best Team Award, Resources Domain for an exceptional client satisfaction rating of 99.6% • Actively participated and organized new joiner involvement initiatives as a GPTW(Great Place To Work) member for the project ### Training and Placement Coordinator(Databases) @ Thadomal Shahani Engineering College Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Mumbai Area, India • Manage student details and help filter candidates as per company criteria on behalf of the Training and Placement Office at our college • Worked extensively on Google forms and MS Excel in helping clean and sort data • Responsible for managing 32 associates involved in similar tasks for the office • Help organize career events and represent the college in front of industry veterans at such events ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer and Information Systems Northeastern University ### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Information Technology University of Mumbai ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/surajnair23 - GitHub: https://github.com/surajnair23 - Portfolio: https://leetcode.com/sosuleet/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/surajnair JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/surajnair/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-28