LOKESH REPALA

Software Engineer

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 Experience

Software Developer

State Farm

May 2024 - Jun 2025

Dallas, TX, US

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

  • 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%.

Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Accenture

May 2021 - Aug 2023

Hyderabad, Telangana, IN

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

  • 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

Computer Science

California State University, Chico

Aug 2023 - Aug 2025

Chico, CA, US

Information Technology

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad

Aug 2018 - Aug 2022

Hyderabad, Telangana, IN

Projects

Real-time Multiplayer Chess Platform

Jan 2024 - Jun 2024

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

Jan 2024 - Jun 2024

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

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