Kavyarani Bavikatti

• Strategic Leadership & Planning: Partnered with Product Owners and Tech Managers to define product roadmaps, align technical execution with business goals, and drive prioritization for high-impact features. Led backlog refinement and sprint planning to maximize team efficiency.
• Technical Ownership & Problem-Solving: Took ownership of high-complexity, cross-team collaborative, and exploratory spike stories, leveraging deep technical expertise to guide architecture decisions and de-risk implementations.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Led and mentored a team of 8 developers, ensuring clear understanding of functional and technical requirements. Provided hands-on support to accelerate development, optimize performance, and drive best engineering practices.
• End-to-End Release Management: Spearheaded every production release, ensuring seamless deployments, risk mitigation, and proactive monitoring for post-production stability and issue resolution.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Acted as a key liaison between engineering, product, and business stakeholders, advocating for scalable technical solutions and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

• Led the development of Freedom, a next-gen HMI single-page application for CNC machines, leveraging ReactJS, ChartJS, KnockoutJS, and Handlebars.
• Designed and implemented a high-frequency data ingestion backend using NodeJS, ExpressJS, ElasticSearch, and ZeroMQ for real-time analytics.
• Optimized storage and real-time search using ElasticSearch, Riak, and Redis, ensuring fast response times.
• Architected and drove the project from inception to completion, selecting the tech stack and defining system architecture.
• Built and managed a cross-functional team of 4 developers, QA, and a Product Owner, providing mentorship and code reviews.
• Introduced Agile methodologies and tools like Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, and BitBucket, boosting team efficiency.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to prioritize requirements and convert them into actionable epics, stories, and tasks.
• Enforced API standards, ensuring compliance with OpenAPI and documenting RESTful services on Swagger.
• Developed an MVVM-based web app using the Atomic Design pattern, enhancing modularity and reducing merge conflicts.

Tech Stack: Node.js, ReactJS, Redux, ChartJS, SCSS, KnockoutJS, Handlebars, ES6, HTML5, CSS3, Webpack, Gulp, Socket.IO, ZeroMQZeroMQ

• Developed and maintained APIs for Java and Node.js clients, including documentation and integration support.
• Enhanced security and authentication by integrating JWT with Jira and managing user access via Atlassian SDK.
• Implemented scalable storage solutions for Jira attachments using Riak and Elasticsearch, reducing database load.
• Containerized and deployed applications in AWS, ensuring scalability and reliability.

Tech Stack: Java, ELK Stack, Docker, Atlassian SDK

• Worked across multiple projects, gaining expertise in diverse tech stacks and architectural patterns.
• Integrated Struts with Spring using Delegating Action Proxy and AOP interceptors for seamless request handling.
• Developed presentation and controller layers leveraging Struts, JSP, JSF, and Tiles, ensuring a modular UI architecture.
• Built backend services using Servlets and Hibernate, enabling efficient database interactions.
• Implemented UI components with HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, and Velocity, enhancing user experience.

Tech Stack: Java, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, JSF, JSP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery