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SUJITHA SEMBANNAN

SUJITHA SEMBANNAN

Tampa,FL

Summary

Backend Software Engineer with over five years of experience building scalable, secure, and performant enterprise applications.Specializes in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and relational databases. Proven track record of reducing latency, improving system efficiency, and driving full lifecycle development. Actively seeking a software engineering role with a team that values clean architecture, innovation, and high-impact solutions.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Application Developer

Citi Bank NA
Tampa, FL
11.2018 - 10.2023
  • Designed and deployed Java-based microservices, which improved execution speed by 30%.
  • Integrated Spring Boot, JMS, and JDBC to enable bulk trade operations and real-time pricing services.
  • Built REST APIs and implemented Kafka-based messaging for scalable, event-driven services.
  • Optimized database performance by creating modular stored procedures; enhanced latency and maintainability.
  • Increased unit test coverage to over 90% using Mockito and JaCoCo.
  • Mentored junior developers and supported onboarding and training.
  • Participated in the complete life cycle from JIRA creation to building deployment packages in TeamCity, and deploying them in UDeploy.
  • Upgraded services to the latest JDK versions, enhanced security via CyberArk, and improved CI/CD workflows.
  • Contributed to UI enhancements using React.js; resolved bugs, and implemented feature requests.

Data Scientist Intern

NIU Digital Convergence
DeKalb, IL
01.2017 - 05.2018
  • Developed an OCR pipeline in R to extract text from scanned PDFs.
  • Conducted sentiment analysis and topic modeling to analyze briefing documents.
  • Visualized trends using word clouds and time-based plots.

Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies
Bangalore, India
01.2014 - 07.2016
  • Enhanced insurance web portal using Java, Struts, JSP, and AJAX.
  • Built integrations with MySQL and Sybase using JDBC.
  • Led feature development and CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
  • Created functional documentation, and contributed to knowledge transfer initiatives.

Education

Masters - Computer Science

Northern Illinois University
Dekalb, IL
05.2018

Bachelors - Information Technology

Panimalar Institute of Technology
Chennai, India
05.2013

Skills

  • Languages: Java, SQL, R
  • Frameworks: Spring Boot, Struts, React, JSP
  • Databases: MySQL, Oracle, Sybase
  • Tools: Kafka, Git, Jenkins, TeamCity, uDeploy,CyberArk
  • Testing: Mockito, Jacoco
  • Other: HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Timeline

Application Developer

Citi Bank NA
11.2018 - 10.2023

Data Scientist Intern

NIU Digital Convergence
01.2017 - 05.2018

Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies
01.2014 - 07.2016

Masters - Computer Science

Northern Illinois University

Bachelors - Information Technology

Panimalar Institute of Technology
SUJITHA SEMBANNAN