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Shrikant
Thakre

Java Backend Developer  /  Spring Boot  /  Microservices

0
Years Experience
1M+
API requests / day
0
Third-party providers
0
APIs published
📍 Pune, Maharashtra 📞 +91 86985 44191 ✉️ [email protected] 🔗 linkedin.com/in/shrikant1599
About Me

Professional Summary

Java Backend Developer with 4+ years of experience building secure REST APIs and microservices for Lloyds Banking Group's Open Banking (PSD2) platform at IBM. Hands-on expertise in Spring Boot, API security (OAuth2, JWT, mTLS), Kafka, and CI/CD pipelines within a regulated UK banking environment. I also have frontend experience in ReactJS and JavaScript, and am comfortable taking on fullstack work.

What I Work With

Technical Skills

Backend
Java 8/11/17 Spring Boot Spring Security Spring Data JPA REST APIs Microservices Apache Kafka OAuth2 JWT mTLS IBM API Connect IBM DataPower
Frontend
ReactJS JavaScript HTML5 CSS TailwindCSS Redux Toolkit
Databases
PostgreSQL MySQL Redis
Cloud & DevOps
Docker Kubernetes GitHub Actions Git SonarQube IBM Cloud Azure
Others
Jira Confluence UrbanCode Deploy Splunk Dynatrace ServiceNow
Career

Professional Experience

Application Developer May 2022 – Present
IBM India Pvt. Ltd. • Pune, India
Client: Lloyds Banking Group (UK), Open Banking Platform
  • Built and maintained Spring Boot microservices for the Open Banking platform, handling 1M+ API requests per day for 50+ third-party providers under PSD2 compliance.
  • Fixed a production rate-limiting bug in a multi-instance deployment by implementing a shared counter, reducing customer-facing errors by 90% across 6 pods.
  • Used Kafka to decouple services and handle async event processing of 500K+ events per day across consent, account and payment flows.
  • Built a wrapper API to adapt a legacy service interface, letting clients integrate without any changes to the downstream system.
  • Set up CI/CD pipelines on GitHub Actions with SonarQube quality gates, cutting build and deploy time from 15 to 5 minutes.
  • Deployed services on Kubernetes using blue-green and canary strategies, with 20+ zero-downtime production releases.
  • Managed and published 30+ Open Banking APIs on IBM API Connect and DataPower, covering routing, authentication and request/response transformation.
  • Added JWT validation caching to avoid repeated calls to the auth server, reducing authentication latency by ~150 ms per request.
  • Applied API security policies (OAuth2, JWT, mTLS) on DataPower in line with Open Banking standards.
  • Monitored API health using Splunk, Kibana and Dynatrace, and managed third-party provider subscriptions.
  • Handled 15+ P1/P2 production incidents from triage to resolution, with 95%+ resolved within SLA.
Spring Boot Kafka PostgreSQL OAuth2 JWT mTLS Docker Kubernetes GitHub Actions IBM API Connect DataPower
What I've Built

Projects

shrikant.me — Personal Portfolio Live
HTML / CSS / Vanilla JS
  • Designed and built this portfolio site from scratch — responsive dark design, deployed on Sevalla.
  • Includes an embedded resume viewer with one-click PDF download.
HTML5 CSS JavaScript Sevalla
Todo Management System Personal Project
Spring Boot Backend — REST API with full security
  • Built a secure RESTful backend with Spring Security, JWT authentication, refresh token flows and Role-Based Access Control.
  • Added Redis caching with API rate limiting to reduce database load under concurrent requests.
  • Structured with layered architecture: controller, service, repository — with global exception handling and input validation.
Java Spring Boot Spring Security JWT MySQL Redis Docker
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Resume

Background

Education & Certifications

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

Computer Science & Engineering

Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University

2016 – 2020  ·  CGPA 8.6

Languages
English Professional Hindi Fluent Marathi Native
Certifications
  • IBM Generative AI Foundations — IBM, 2025
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
  • Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCA-F)
Currently Learning
  • System Design & Distributed Systems
  • AWS Solutions Architect