Hemanth Saragadam - Senior Software Engineer & Full Stack Developer
Available for Hire | Boston, MA | Remote Worldwide
About Hemanth Saragadam
Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years building full-stack and backend platforms end to end, including API design, distributed systems, event-driven pipelines, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and on-call ownership. Strong in Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, React, AWS, Kubernetes, and observability using SLIs, SLOs, and OpenTelemetry. Deliver scalable systems, improve latency and reliability, and ship iterative releases with measurable impact.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (2025). HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate (2024). Master of Science in Computer Science from Northeastern University.
Professional Experience
Senior Software Engineer - Labs196 Innovations LLC
September 2024 - Present | Sugar Land, Texas
Led architecture and delivery of a microservices platform, defining bounded contexts, API contracts, and data ownership; improved feature delivery speed by 35% and reduced cross-team dependencies by 40%. Designed event-driven workflows with Kafka; reduced production incidents by 45%. Implemented transactional outbox publishing; improved data consistency by 90%. Optimized hot-path APIs; reduced p95 latency by 42%. Built production observability with OpenTelemetry; reduced time-to-root-cause by 55%. Automated deployments with Terraform and Kubernetes; reduced deployment time by 70%.
Full Stack Developer - Northeastern University
January 2023 - May 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts
Built assignment management system with Node.js, Express, Sequelize, PostgreSQL. Automated submission processing with AWS Lambda and SNS; reduced processing time from 6 minutes to 25 seconds. Added observability with Winston, StatsD, dashboards. Provisioned infrastructure with Pulumi and Docker.
Software Engineer - KYC Hub
January 2022 - June 2022 | Remote
Built full-stack KYC/KYB verification workflows with Spring Boot and Angular; increased case throughput by 30%. Integrated 6+ identity and risk providers. Implemented multi-tenant auth with OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, RBAC. Reduced p95 response time by 29%.
Full-Stack Engineer - DocsTime
January 2020 - October 2021 | Remote
Delivered end-to-end features with Angular and Node.js. Modernized into progressive web app; improved retention by 12%. Built CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins; reduced release cycle time by 48%. Reduced p95 latency by 37%. Introduced Redis caching; reduced database load by 34%.
Technical Skills
Languages
Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C#, SQL
Backend
Spring Boot, Node.js, Express, REST APIs, OpenAPI, gRPC, WebSockets
Frontend
React, Next.js, Angular, HTML, CSS
Architecture
Microservices, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, Domain-Driven Design, System Design, API Versioning
Messaging and Data Pipelines
Kafka, at-least-once processing, idempotency, outbox pattern, retries with backoff, dead-letter queues
Datastores
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, MongoDB
Cloud and DevOps
AWS (EKS, Lambda, SNS, S3, RDS), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi, CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
Observability and Reliability
OpenTelemetry, structured logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, alerting, SLIs, SLOs, incident response
Security
OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, RBAC, secrets management
Testing
JUnit, Mockito, Jest, Cypress, Selenium, integration testing, contract testing
Featured Projects
AegisGate: Multi-Tenant API Gateway and Policy Engine
Multi-tenant API gateway with authentication hooks, per-route policies, and role-aware routing. 12,000 req/s with p95 latency under 45ms. Sliding-window rate limiting, burst control, request fingerprinting. Contract tests and backward-compatible API versioning. End-to-end tracing with burn-rate alerts. Node.js, Redis, OpenAPI, OpenTelemetry.
PulseLedger: Event-Driven Orders and Payments with Saga Orchestration
Microservices system for orders and payments using saga orchestration and transactional outbox publishing. 1.2 million events per day with zero duplicate charges. Idempotent consumers, retries with exponential backoff, dead-letter workflows. Schema evolution with zero-downtime upgrades. Kafka, PostgreSQL.
SignalForge: Full-Stack Observability and SLO Platform
Unified telemetry pipeline collecting traces, metrics, and logs with correlation IDs. SLIs and SLOs with error budgets and burn-rate alerts. Load testing and chaos testing. OpenTelemetry, k6, fault injection.
GlideCast: Low-Latency Remote Session Client for Windows
Native Windows client with asynchronous pipelines. 60 FPS streaming with median input-to-frame latency under 35ms. Reconnect with exponential backoff, session resume, congestion control. C#, .NET 8, gRPC, WebSockets, OpenTelemetry.
Hackathon Projects
TriageFlow: Real-time incident triage system with rules engine and scoring model. Reduced alert backlog by 55%. Kafka, Node.js, Redis, OpenTelemetry.
MatchMint: Serverless scheduling platform with constraint matching. Reduced scheduling conflicts by 60%. AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, SNS.
VaultLink: Zero-trust file sharing with signed links and audit trails. 5,000 req/s under load tests. AWS S3, Redis, React, Node.js.
Education and Certifications
Master of Science in Computer Science - Northeastern University, Boston, MA (Sep 2022 - May 2024)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (2025)
HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate (2024)
Hire Hemanth Saragadam
Looking for a Senior Software Engineer? Hemanth Saragadam is available for hire as a software engineer, full stack developer, backend engineer, distributed systems engineer, cloud architect, SRE, platform engineer, or technical lead. Based in Boston, MA with availability for remote work worldwide including New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Austin, Los Angeles, Denver, Atlanta, Washington DC, Dallas, Houston, London, Toronto, Singapore, Berlin, Amsterdam, Dublin, and international locations.
Specializing in: Java and Spring Boot microservices, Node.js backend services, React frontends, Kafka event-driven pipelines, AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes orchestration, Terraform infrastructure as code, OpenTelemetry observability, distributed systems design, API design and versioning, CI/CD automation, and reliability engineering with SLIs/SLOs.