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Hi, I'm Aparna

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I describe myself as a fanatical coder fueled by curiosity. What began as a self-taught journey has evolved into 5+ years of engineering experience architecting high-performance backend systems, real-time platforms, and large-scale APIs, while contributing to open-source on GitHub and collaborating publicly across the developer ecosystem.

Experience

2022 - Present

Software Engineer

Morgan Stanley

Leading backend architecture and scaling distributed systems.

2020 - 2022

Associate Software Engineer

LogisticsNow

Engineered real-time auction platforms powering transparent freight logistics.

Featured Projects

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GenAI Config Assistant

A prompt-engineered assistant using OpenAI LLMs that understands natural-language instructions and helps traders automate the creation of stock baskets.

FastAPI OpenAI JupyterLab Kafka

Dynamic Dashboards Platform

A low-latency backend powering real-time dashboards with secure OAuth2 auth, Kafka-based instrumentation, and full ESM observability.

FastAPI OAuth2/OIDC MongoDB Kafka Jenkins

On-Prem → Cloud Migration

A production-grade migration of compute workloads to Azure Kubernetes Service with secure API-gateway routing and autoscaling efficiency.

Azure AKS Kubernetes FastAPI OAuth2 API Gateway

High-Speed Data Transfer Layer

Replaced REST with gRPC + Apache Flight to enable high-speed columnar data transport, boosting throughput by ~60%.

gRPC Apache Flight Python FastAPI

Real-Time Streaming & CDC Pipelines

Designed fault-tolerant distributed pipelines using Kafka + Flink for CDC, synchronizing systems in real-time.

Kafka Flink Delta Lake Store

High-Performance Authorization Layer

A Redis-powered write-around caching system for entitlement checks, cutting latency from ~203 ms to ~3.5 ms (≈58× improvement).

Redis FastAPI Python

Real-Time Auction Platform

A scalable auction system using serverless compute, real-time bidding updates, caching, and Cosmos DB autoscaling.

Azure Functions Cosmos DB Redis SignalR

Fuel Normalization Automation

Fully automated Excel-driven processes with Blob triggers + Cosmos DB updates, eliminating manual intervention for rate adjustments.

Azure Functions Cosmos DB MongoDB

OAuth2 Security Upgrade

Migrated legacy Kerberos authentication to OAuth2, enforcing token-based access and strengthening cross-system data governance.

OAuth2 Security Cloud Infra

Skills

Languages

💻 C++
🐍 Python
💎 Ruby on Rails

Web Frameworks

⚡ FastAPI
🦄 Gunicorn
✨ Uvicorn

Cloud & Infrastructure

☁️ Azure Cloud
🚀 Azure DevOps
🐳 Docker
🐿️ Flink
🧠 GenAI
🤵 Jenkins
📨 Kafka
☸️ Kubernetes
🧠 Redis
🔒 SSL/TLS
🦁 Zookeeper

Data Systems & Technologies

🏹 Apache Arrow
✈️ Apache Flight
📦 Apache Parquet
🍃 MongoDB
🐬 MySQL

Authentication & Security

🔑 OAuth2
🆔 OIDC
🔒 SSL/TLS

Version Control & Tools

🌿 Git
🪐 Jupyter Server
🚀 Postman
🔍 Splunk
📝 VS Code

I’m a deeply passionate engineer who loves writing code, debugging and building systems. If you’re looking for someone who brings solid self-drive, ownership and curiosity let's connect.

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