LOKESH REPALA

Software Engineer
Dallas, US.

About

Highly accomplished Software Engineer with an M.S. in Computer Science and over 3 years of expertise in building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Proven ability to design and deliver production-grade microservices, REST/gRPC/GraphQL APIs, and robust CI/CD pipelines, driving significant improvements in system latency, reliability, and delivery speed. Adept at leveraging a diverse tech stack including Java, .NET, Python, and Kubernetes to achieve measurable business and technical outcomes.

Work

State Farm
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Software Developer

Dallas, TX, US

Summary

Led the development and optimization of high-performance microservices and CI/CD pipelines on Azure and AWS, significantly enhancing system availability and developer efficiency.

Highlights

Delivered Spring Boot microservices and .NET Core APIs on Azure and AWS, achieving 99.9% availability and sub-200 ms API latency.

Implemented CI/CD with Docker, Kubernetes, and service deploy gates, cutting release time 40% and raising test coverage 15%.

Improved resiliency with circuit breakers and deep root-cause analysis, reducing production incidents 30%.

Optimized SQL Server and MongoDB schemas and pipelines, improving query performance 35% and stabilizing Big Data flows.

Led 60+ cross-team code reviews and mentored five engineers, boosting code quality 30% and cutting post-release defects 25%.

Accenture
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Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Summary

Engineered full-stack solutions and optimized infrastructure, driving significant cost savings, performance improvements, and operational efficiency for enterprise clients.

Highlights

Applied Python PuLP to an EC2 resource-allocation linear program, trimming compute spend 18% while meeting SLA.

Developed Angular and .NET Core apps that consumed REST APIs and processed JSON payloads, cutting UI load time 25% and lifting UX scores 15%.

Orchestrated the migration of Java microservices to Docker containers managed by Kubernetes on Azure DevOps, achieving zero-downtime deployments and slashing infrastructure maintenance time by 40%.

Designed a multi-tier system for ~10M daily B2B transactions with robust authentication and authorization, lowering latency by 20%.

Operated .NET Core payment services on PostgreSQL, improving error rates 45% using authentication, idempotency keys, consistent hashing, and end-to-end tracing.

Education

California State University, Chico
Chico, CA, United States of America

Master of Science

Computer Science

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad
Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Bachelor of Technology

Information Technology

Skills

Languages/Frameworks

Java, C++, C#, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, .NET Core, Spring Boot, Node.js, Django, React, Angular.

Cloud/Containers

AWS EKS, Lambda, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Argo CD, GitHub Actions.

APIs/Systems

REST, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSockets, microservices architecture, event-driven design.

Data/DevOps

PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk.

AI/RAG

FAISS, BM25, BGE small-en v1.5 embeddings, cross-encoder re-ranker, FastAPI.

Projects

Real-time Multiplayer Chess Platform

Summary

Developed a real-time multiplayer chess platform leveraging modern web technologies and cloud infrastructure to support high concurrency and low-latency gameplay.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pipeline

Summary

Designed and implemented a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline for efficient document ingestion, hybrid retrieval, and large language model deployment.