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Spandana
Sunkara

Full Stack Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience across React, Java/Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes & CI/CD. I work well across the stack and care about writing code that's maintainable, not just functional.

4+
Years Experience
3
Companies
MS
Computer Science
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Work History

Where I've
Been & What I Built

Software Engineer II
Crown Castle USA Inc — Canonsburg, PA
Apr 2024 – Feb 2026
  • Led full-stack development of a React/GraphQL UI paired with a Spring Boot backend to migrate a legacy JSP-based deal workflow — the kind of sprawling, hard-to-touch system that accumulates years of workarounds. Breaking it into something modern and maintainable cut manual processing by 40% and gave the team actual confidence to ship changes.
  • Implemented Kafka-based event-driven communication to replace fragile direct API calls between services. Cross-service failures dropped by 30% — one of those architectural shifts that quietly makes everything downstream more stable.
  • Optimized PostgreSQL and Oracle queries and deployed Dockerized applications on AWS EKS, driving a 25% improvement in API response times and significantly improving deployment reliability across environments.
  • Investigated and resolved critical production incidents through log analysis and deep service debugging — contributed to a 15% quarter-over-quarter reduction in incident recurrence, and improved overall system stability in ways that compounded over time.
React + GraphQL Spring Boot Kafka AWS EKS Kubernetes –40% manual processing –30% cross-service failures +25% API response time –15% incident recurrence
Software Engineer
Federal Soft Systems Inc — Bentonville, AR
Jan 2023 – Apr 2024
  • Developed React UI components with Redux and TypeScript for enterprise applications — focused on making data from reporting workflows actually usable rather than just surfacing raw numbers. Usability improved noticeably for the teams relying on these views day-to-day, reflected in a 20% improvement across reporting workflows.
  • Built RESTful APIs using Java and Spring Boot to manage vendor data. Cleaned up inconsistent endpoints and tightened error handling — client-reported defects dropped by 25% after those changes went out, which was a good signal that the underlying issues were real.
  • Contributed to building automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Docker, replacing a deployment process that had too many manual steps people worked around. Once running reliably, deployment speed improved by 50% and the team stopped dreading release days.
React / Redux / TypeScript Spring Boot Jenkins CI/CD Docker –25% defects +50% deployment speed
Software Engineer
Plasticon Technologies — Hyderabad, India
Jul 2020 – Jul 2021
  • Built full-stack applications using Python (Django/Flask) and JavaScript, improving page load times by 20% and user experience across core products.
  • Designed MongoDB replication and sharding strategies, supporting 99.9% uptime for production systems.
  • Developed Azure DevOps pipelines, reducing release cycle time by 40% and standardizing release workflows across the engineering team.
Python / Django MongoDB Azure DevOps –20% page load time 99.9% uptime –40% release cycle time
Samsung PRISM Developer
Samsung Research Institute — Bengaluru, India
Jan 2020 – Aug 2020
  • Part of a research project with Samsung to build a real-time video classification model. Collected and labelled a dataset of 1,500 videos, then experimented with combining TSM and MobileNetV2 to keep inference fast enough to run on-device. We hit 93% accuracy on the test set, which met the project goal.
Deep Learning TSM + MobileNetV2 93% accuracy
Technical Stack

What I Work
With Day-to-Day

Languages
Java JavaScript TypeScript Python Shell Scripting
Frontend
React Angular Next.js Redux NgRx GraphQL Node.js HTML5 / CSS3 Bootstrap
Backend
Spring Boot Spring MVC Spring Data JPA Spring JDBC Hibernate Microservices REST API Kafka OAuth 2.0 / JWT Django / Flask
Cloud & DevOps
AWS EC2 / S3 / EKS / Lambda Docker Kubernetes Helm Terraform Jenkins Harness Azure DevOps
Databases
MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis Oracle
Testing & Tools
JUnit / Mockito Jest Cypress Playwright Postman Datadog Maven Jira VS Code GitHub Copilot Claude Code
Recognition

Certifications &
Achievements

☁️
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Certified by Amazon Web Services, validating foundational cloud expertise across AWS infrastructure and services.
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Published Author — Springer Singapore
Co-authored "Machine Learning: A Study and Modelling of Different Techniques," presented at ICCCES 2021 and published by Springer Singapore.
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Gold Star Scholarship 2021
Awarded the Engineering Gold Star Graduate Scholarship in recognition of academic excellence.


Education
MS, Computer Science
University of Texas at Arlington
Aug 2021 – Dec 2022
MBA, Information Technology
Humphreys University
Jan 2026 – Mar 2028 (In Progress)
Let's Connect

Looking for a
Mid-Level Engineer Role

Based in Arlington, TX — open to remote, hybrid, or on-site.

✉ sunkara.spandana79@gmail.com 📞 (817) 331-1983 ↗ LinkedIn Profile