ABHINAV SAI PORIKA
Cumming,GA
Summary
Results-driven Software Engineer with experience at Visa Inc., specializing in secure API design and microservices architecture. Achieved a 40% reduction in request latency through optimized cryptographic operations. Proficient in Java and Python, with strong collaboration skills, enhancing platform resilience and driving security improvements across engineering teams.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer
Visa Inc.
Atlanta, GA
12.2024 - 10.2025
- Led separation of Cloud2Batch jobs, enhancing reliability and scalability of core platform workloads.
- Coordinated dependencies and managed priorities to automate migration processes, enhancing platform resilience.
- Triaged SSDLC findings using Sonatype, Checkmarx, and Black Duck, driving prioritization by risk and impact.
- Ensured secure changes were designed, tested, and deployed without destabilizing production environments.
- Owned MPOM upgrades and security remediation, collaborating with teams to address security assessments.
- Collaborated with global engineering and security teams on design discussions, aligning on secure patterns and trade-offs.
- Enhanced SSDLC process understanding through targeted questions and optimized workflows, educating the team.
- Promoted Copilot and cline-bot usage to improve development velocity and code quality during refactoring efforts.
Software Engineer Intern
Visa Inc.
Atlanta, GA
05.2023 - 08.2023
- Designed and implemented cloud-based tokenization APIs processing over 500,000 payment events daily with sub-20 ms latency.
- Built Kafka event-streaming pipelines ensuring exactly-once semantics and fault-tolerant delivery.
- Developed Master Derivation Key Cache microservice optimizing cryptographic operations, reducing request latency by 40%.
- Implemented idempotent retry mechanisms to eliminate duplicate processing, improving reliability.
- Created Splunk dashboards to visualize Kafka pipeline health for eight engineering teams, enabling faster debugging and anomaly detection.
Software Engineer Intern
Visa Inc.
Atlanta, GA
05.2022 - 08.2022
- Implemented Kafka producer and consumer services with robust retry and backoff logic for high-throughput payment routing.
- Tuned consumer group coordination, improving scalability and resilience during workload bursts.
- Developed dual-view Splunk analytics for executive KPI reporting and engineering diagnostics, increasing visibility for leadership and developers.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Georgia
AthensSkills
- Java and Python programming
- C and JavaScript development
- Kotlin and SQL expertise
- MySQL database management
- CI/CD and Jenkins integration
- SSDLC triage and remediation
- Security findings resolution
- SAST/OSS tools proficiency
- Sonatype and Checkmarx usage
- Black Duck compliance knowledge
- PCI-DSS awareness and adherence
- Secure API and microservice design
- Apache Kafka implementation
- Event-driven architecture design
- Microservices architecture
- RESTful APIs development
- Batch processing techniques
- Docker containerization skills
- Git version control expertise
- Pipeline health monitoring dashboards
- Performance tuning strategies
- Incident prevention and resolution
Accomplishments
Visa, Inc. - Innovation Award (liveDocs)
Timeline
Software Engineer
Visa Inc.
12.2024 - 10.2025
Software Engineer Intern
Visa Inc.
05.2023 - 08.2023
Software Engineer Intern
Visa Inc.
05.2022 - 08.2022
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Georgia
Projects
liveDocs
- Distributed Version Control System, Built a Git-inspired distributed version control system in Python with branching, merging, and collaborative workflows, backed by SHA-256 content-addressable storage and custom diff algorithms., Provided REST APIs and WebSocket-based real-time synchronization, focusing on consistency, performance, and debuggability across distributed nodes.