Available for opportunities

Neel
Patel

Software Developer with 5+ years building high-performance enterprise systems — microservices, cloud-native pipelines, and the APIs that connect them all.

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5+
Years experience
30%
Cost reduction achieved
1M+
Records processed / mo
40%
Efficiency improvement

01 — About

Building things that scale

Biography

Currently a Software Developer Consultant at USAA via TCS, I design and build the distributed systems that power critical insurance and financial workflows at enterprise scale.

My work spans event-driven microservices with Apache Kafka, cloud-native deployments on AWS EKS, full-text search engines with Apache Solr, and member-facing React applications — all wired together by the REST APIs I know how to build well.

I'm drawn to problems where performance and reliability aren't optional — systems handling millions of records, sub-200ms search, and zero-downtime deployments.

Experience
5+
Years in enterprise software engineering
Systems
6
Production microservices delivered
Stack
3
Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Core stack
Java Spring Boot AWS Kafka Docker Kubernetes React PostgreSQL Redis Terraform
Experience
2022 — Present Software Developer Consultant USAA · via TCS
2021 — 2022 Software Developer Marriott · via TCS
2019 — 2021 Software Engineer Tata Consultancy Services
ClaimsService.java

02 — Skills

Technical expertise

Languages & Frameworks
Java Python JavaScript TypeScript Spring Boot Spring Batch Spring Security Spring MVC Spring JPA React.js Node.js Express.js
Cloud & DevOps
AWS EC2 AWS S3 AWS EKS AWS Lambda Docker Kubernetes Terraform Jenkins CI/CD Pipelines Helm
Databases & Messaging
MySQL PostgreSQL Oracle MongoDB Redis Apache Kafka Apache Flink Apache Solr
Observability & Security
Elasticsearch Kibana Grafana Prometheus Splunk OAuth 2.0 JWT Spring Security

03 — Projects

What I've shipped

USAA · TCS

Claims Document Automation

Comprehensive API automating claims document distribution across email and physical mail channels. Replaced manual routing with an event-driven pipeline processing thousands of documents daily.

30% reduction in operational costs — streamlined distribution workflow eliminated manual processing bottlenecks
Spring Boot Kafka AWS EC2 REST API PostgreSQL
USAA · TCS

Full-Text Search Engine

High-performance search infrastructure indexing and querying 1M+ claims documents. Designed a custom relevance scoring model with field boosting and faceted filtering for claims investigators.

Sub-200ms query responses · 40% improvement in search relevance scores
Apache Solr Spring Boot Microservices MySQL Redis Cache
USAA · TCS

Claims Capability Services

Unified RESTful API layer that intelligently routes claims between legacy COBOL systems and a modernized microservices core — enabling zero-downtime migration of a 40-year-old platform.

30% reduction in API calls · 20% faster response times across the claims platform
Spring Boot AWS EKS Docker REST API Kubernetes
USAA · TCS

Automated Training Data Generation

Spring Batch pipeline that generates ML training datasets from production claims data. Eliminated manual data curation, enforces PII masking, and provisions training artifacts directly to S3.

40% operational efficiency gain · 25% faster processing · zero manual interventions
Spring Batch Spring Boot AWS S3 REST API Oracle DB
USAA · TCS

Vehicle Damage Reporting App

Member-facing React application with a guided chat-flow interface for vehicle damage claims. Built the full stack: conversational UI, REST backend, AWS-hosted image upload, and claims submission pipeline.

30% increase in member engagement · 20% reduction in claim submission time
React JavaScript Spring Boot AWS REST API
Marriott · TCS

Real-Time Hotel Analytics Pipeline

High-throughput streaming pipeline processing 100k+ hotel reservation transactions per day for dynamic pricing analytics. Kafka ingestion → Flink processing → BI layer with real-time dashboards.

Pricing decisions reduced from hours to minutes · 99% data accuracy SLA
Apache Kafka Apache Flink Spring Boot SQL Real-time

04 — Contact

Let's build something

Open to new opportunities, architectural conversations, or just talking shop. I reply to every message.

Neelkp66@gmail.com (201) 989-2905