Priya N. Raghunathan
Java Developer, Ecommerce Platform
Columbus, OH · (614) 555 0147 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/priyanraghunathan
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Two years of Java development on a retail checkout platform, plus a one year internship
INDUSTRIES
Ecommerce for a 40 store home goods retailer taking about 14,000 online orders a day
SPECIALTIES
Spring Boot services, cart and pricing logic, promotion codes, unit and contract testing
SYSTEMS
Java 17, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services, GitHub Actions
CREDENTIALS
Oracle Certified Professional Java Standard Edition 17 Developer
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Scioto Valley State University
Executive Summary
Java developer two years past graduation on the checkout and order team of a regional home goods retailer whose online store takes about 14,000 orders a day. Writes Spring Boot services for cart, pricing and order capture, owns the promotion code service end to end, and carries the pager one week in six. Came out of an internship with a cache fix that is still in production.
Signature Achievements
- Rebuilt the promotion code service in Spring Boot and cut its median response time from 310 milliseconds to 85 milliseconds.
- Raised unit test coverage on the cart service from 41 percent to 83 percent over eight months using JUnit 5 and Mockito.
- Found and fixed a Redis cache key collision during the internship that had been overcharging about 200 orders a week.
- Closed 140 tickets in the first year with a code review turnaround under one business day on 90 percent of pull requests.
- Passed the Oracle Certified Professional Java Standard Edition 17 examination on the first attempt in 2025.
Professional Experience
Java Developer, Checkout and Order Team
Hearthstone Home Goods, Columbus, OH July 2024 to present
Online store for a 40 store retailer taking about 14,000 orders a day; team of seven developers on cart, pricing and order capture
- Build and maintain Spring Boot services for cart, pricing, promotion codes and order capture behind the checkout page.
- Publish order events to Kafka topics consumed by the warehouse and email teams and handle replay when a consumer falls behind.
- Write unit tests in JUnit 5 and Mockito and contract tests against the payment gateway sandbox before every release.
- Deploy through GitHub Actions to Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services and watch Datadog dashboards during the release window.
- Take one week in six on the on call rotation and write the postmortem for any incident during that week.
Software Engineering Intern
Hearthstone Home Goods, Columbus, OH May 2023 to June 2024
Twelve month internship alongside the final year of the degree, on the same checkout team
- Wrote Spring Boot endpoints for gift card balance checks and the tests that covered them.
- Traced a Redis cache key collision that overcharged about 200 orders a week and shipped the fix.
- Migrated 30 integration tests from an in memory database to Testcontainers running PostgreSQL.
Certifications and Training
Oracle Certified Professional Java Standard Edition 17 Developer, Oracle, earned 2025
Amazon Web Services Certified Cloud Practitioner, Amazon Web Services, earned 2024
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard developer training, completed each year
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Scioto Valley State University, Columbus, 2024
Core Skills
Spring Boot services · Java 17 · Kafka event publishing · PostgreSQL queries · Redis caching · JUnit and Mockito · Testcontainers · GitHub Actions pipelines · Kubernetes deployments · Incident postmortems