Nikhitha Kupireddy

• Worked on multiple teams across Macy's Stores OneX application implementing various projects that include Markdowns, Pick and Pack, and RFID Inventory Capture. Signed up and provided support during holiday control room shifts each year.

Markdowns: (Jan 2021 – Jan 2022)

• Created and tested print format for Markdown tickets. Formed partnership with external company "Zebra Technologies" to debug and fix few critical printing issues. Learnt CPCL and ZPL – Zebra Printer languages.
• Worked on backend inventory changes for Dynamic Binning in IWM WSM services application.
• Fixed CheckMarx scan vulnerabilities in Stores UI, Stores MiddleWare and WSM services applications.

RFID Inventory Capture: (Feb 2022 – Jan 2023)

• It is a POC project that was developed from scratch. Partnered with several teams like Main Oracle DB team and Aggregator services to gather data needed for backend services, and Apigee team to set up Apigee URLs for User experience APIs (Write tag and Receive Inventory).
• Designed and developed User Experience, Process and System APIs microservices which helped in improving Macy's RFID scanning for Packing inventory into cartons.

Pick and Pack: (Feb 2023 – Jan 2024)

• Contributed significantly to the design and development of enhancements and bug fixes in Pick Pack API and IWM microservices.
• Explored into UI development working on some of the React JS and Type script code in Stores-UI and middleware.
• Led the team to set up SNYK to fix security vulnerabilities in the Pick Pack API application.
• Expanded my experience with UI coding, GCP Analytics, SQL Query tuning, other performance enhancements in the application and working with RFID devices.
• Coordinated with multiple other teams which include RFID, MMS, ETD, and SRE team for production issues.
• Mentored junior developers, fostering professional growth and enhancing team productivity.

Markdowns, Prime UI, Rapid Returns, FSS, Stores APO: (Feb 2024 – Present)

• Have been primarily working on bug fixes and enhancements in OneX Markdowns application as part of Archangels team.
• Performing discovery of Legacy Transfer Systems application architecture to refactor it to move from main frames to GCP.

• Designed and Developed Microservices to manage user preferences, process email and SMS notification requests that are scaled to over millions of users using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.
• Lead team in migration to DevOps model. Migrated code from Microsoft TFS to Git Repo, built CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Mavenized Ant projects.
• Migrated ten existing Oracle Weblogic applications onto Docker containers and Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Cloud platform which led to 4 x faster deployments, 2 x improved infrastructure utilization and faster delivery cycles (3 week to 2 week Sprints).
• Implemented consolidation feature in UPS emails and SMSs which reduced company's SMS costs by millions of dollars daily.

• Improved frontend of order management system app by optimizing code, compressing images, minimizing external requests which led to 30% increase in application performance.
• Redesigned and refactored submit project order and process technical order services to improve scalability by 50% using techniques like SQL query optimization, caching database queries, database indexes, session storage, queue processing etc.

• Designed and developed RESTful webservices using Spring, Jersey and Jackson to implement various APIs to check eligibility, provision, suspend, resume and delete credit card token for ApplePay.
• Developed groovy scripts to automate tests in SoapUI Pro.
• Improved application performance by 40% by running Load tests, monitoring, identifying performance bottlenecks and fixing them.