Atul Thakur

Sole backend engineer across two commercial B2B SaaS products — Employee Management System and B2B Commerce Platform — from architecture through AWS production deployment.

• Architected and built 8+ Spring Boot microservices for user management, RBAC, and workflow automation — each independently deployable, secured with JWT auth and Spring Security RBAC.
• Integrated Elasticsearch for full-text search across workflow records, enabling fast retrieval with sub-second response times on large datasets.
• Improved average query response time by ~40% via targeted MySQL schema indexing and Redis caching on high-traffic reporting and transactional endpoints.
• Containerised services with Docker and set up Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, reducing release cycle time and eliminating manual deployment steps; integrated 3+ third-party APIs with structured error handling and retry logic.
• Built and maintained React UI components for admin and user-facing dashboards, managing state and connecting to Spring Boot REST endpoints.

Enterprise Java backend engineering on a global LXP platform serving 75M+ users across UAE, UK, and US customers, working in a Scrum team of 8 engineers.

• Developed and maintained 10+ Java REST APIs for the LXP platform; optimised SQL queries on 100K+ record datasets, reducing reporting latency significantly.
• Decomposed a monolithic localisation module into independently deployable services across 3 modules — led the backend migration, delivered on schedule with ~30% reduction in localisation-related production bugs.
• Designed and implemented Elasticsearch-based search for the LXP catalogue, improving content discovery speed and relevance for end users.
• Built full-stack features using Spring Boot and React across multiple product modules; shipped reusable React components across 3+ teams in an NX monorepo — took ownership of rebuilding the internal engineering framework at 1 year of experience.
• Participated in sprint planning, daily standups, and code reviews; contributed to an internal localisation tooling project that streamlined cross-team workflows.

Career break spent on backend development for Punekar, a hyperlocal community app for Pune (iOS & Android), built collaboratively with a small team.

• Owned backend development — Spring Boot, JWT auth, MySQL, Redis, AWS EC2 — and contributed across multiple product features, including building the in-app chat feature.
• Live in production with real users on Google Play.