About

Ruchira Gothankar is a Software Engineer III at Walmart - Sam's Club with over 3.5 years of relevant experience. She holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from San Jose State University, California, where she gained a strong foundation in programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, HTML/CSS, and JavaScript. Ruchira has a vast knowledge of databases and streams, including MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, AWS DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, and Kafka. She is also proficient in frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, Maven, Gradle, RestApi, and Log4j, and has hands-on experience with tools and platforms such as AWS Services: EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, Eclipse, Intellij, Git, Postman, Swagger, Sonar, and Jenkins. Ruchira's expertise extends to data structures and algorithms, object-oriented programming, and operating systems. She has worked with various organizations, including San Jose State University, where she served as an Instructional Student Assistant in Computer Science Dept. She was also a Software Engineer at Handzap, where she was responsible for designing and developing the microservice architecture for the Handzap Application with ten services from scratch. Ruchira reduced server overhead and improved response time by 35 percent by implementing a stateless OAuth 2.0 based authentication services with Spring Security using JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for log in/sign up. She also implemented a web service Feign REST client using Spring Cloud for interservice communication and designed and developed highly scalable, low latency search web services based on Elasticsearch and Spring Boot for the core functionalities of the application. Additionally, Ruchira was responsible for third-party API integration of OTP/IVR, support tickets, and payments service providers. Ruchira's tech stack includes Software Engineer, AWS, Spring, Elastic Search, Spring Boot, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Java, Javascript, Jenkins, Python, Web, Microservices, Search, and Integration. She is a highly motivated and detail-oriented professional with excellent communication and teamwork skills. Ruchira is committed to delivering high-quality work and has a passion for learning and staying up-to-date with new technologies and industry trends.