# Sushanth Avvaru

> Software Engineer at Nisum

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sushanth

Full-stack Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience building scalable SPAs and microservices for major brands like
Albertsons and Williams Sonoma. Skilled in Angular, React, Node.js, Spring Boot, and Kafka for real-time systems. Integrated
OAuth2, JWT, and AEM for secure, headless architectures. Proven track record of improving performance with Redis, optimizing
DevOps with Jenkins, SonarQube, and ensuring accessibility compliance. Passionate about delivering high-impact, user-centric
solutions across web and mobile platforms.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer 3 @ Albertsons Companies
Jan 2023 – Present | Pleasanton, California, United States
• Built and maintained Angular SPA for Rewards & gamification flows.
• Developed scalable Node.js/Express.js backend services powering Angular-based Freshpass subscription features (10K+ DAUs).
• Implemented Kafka stream consumers for real-time event handling, enhancing subscription update efficiency by 30%.
• Integrated AEM as headless CMS and identity platform; connected to secured BFF Node.js services.
• Integrated OAuth and JWT for secure session management across mobile/web apps.
• Implemented route protection, lazy loading, and global state management using RxJS and Angular Router
• Integrated React-based wallet modules with updated tender and payment methods.
• Contributed to backend service calls using Express and mock data to validate UI flows.
• Optimized backend logging with Grafana, reducing debugging time by 25%.
• Collaborated with ADA team for accessibility compliance and FIGMA for UI delivery.
• Built and deployed containerized microservices on Jenkins; monitored code quality with SonarQube.

### Software Engineer @ Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Led frontend development for Product Information Pages across Pottery Barn, West Elm, and other WSI brands.
• Built REST APIs in Spring Boot serving product pages across Pottery Barn, West Elm—supporting 2M+ page views/month.
• Improved backend caching using Redis, decreasing data fetch times by 40%.
• Produced Kafka-based event-driven services for product sync; ensured fault tolerance using retry logic and dead-letter queues.
• Developed reusable Web Components and modular UIs using VueJS, LitElement, and Apache FTL.
• Led CI/CD pipeline upgrades with Jetty + JUnit testing, boosting build success rates by 20%.
• Spearheaded code review process using SVN, GitHub, and Fisheye.

### Software Developer @ Housecall Pro
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Diego, California
• Built dashboards using React & Redux; reduced user drop-off during refund flows by 15%.
• Worked on Stripe disputes and stripe refunds and payouts and developed refund tools for standard and instant payouts.
• Built refund & payout services in Ruby on Rails for payments processing using Stripe APIs.
• Designed MySQL DB schemas and wrote migrations supporting transactional features.
• User advanced technique of ES6 and component wrapper (HOC) to handle async components very easily.
• Applied MVC and TDD principles; wrote 80+ unit/integration tests in RSpec ensuring 95% coverage.
• Worked on key core features of the company including service agreement on both front-end and back-end.
• Deployed to staging and check for errors in Airbrake and fix them.
• Used CircleCI for continuous integration.
• Used Email Builders to send email to customers and pros for their activities.

### Full Stack Developer @ Cheviot Performance Marketing
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater San Diego Area
• Main Web Developer creating Landing pages and upsell pages for the product using Angularjs, jQuery, SASS and Grunt for dev environment.
• Injected tracking codes like Hotjar and added Facebook pixels and Google Analytics using Google Tag Manager.
• Contributed for the development of the Company’s main web application using Angular5 and made it responsive using Bootstrap.
• Worked with many domains and hosted web apps in AWS and Cloudflare. Also used services like Cloudfront, S3, Route53 and Lightsail.
• Added Cache Control headers to the web applications which increased website page significantly.
• Created Landing and cart from scratch using PHP as backend, Konnektive CRM and API.
• Used Konnektive API to make payments using Stripe and Paypal services.
• Managed FTP accounts to grant access for various users.
• Worked on Wordpress CMS and Unbounce to create pages.
• Worked with Clickbank API which makes easier to get product delivery and subscription details.

### Test Proctor @ Test Accomodations
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Diego State University
Providing a suitable environment and services for students who take exams. It also includes reading and writing tests for disabled students.

### Web Developer Intern @ ConvergeDirect
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater San Diego Area


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Computer Science
San Diego State University

### Bachelor’s Degree
JSS Academy Of Technical Education Karnataka


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sushanthavvaru

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Source: https://flows.cv/sushanth
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sushanth/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-30