Palavalli Himavanth

Full-Stack Software Engineer

himavanthpalavalli225@gmail.com • Chennai, India
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Full-Stack Software Engineer with nearly 3 years of experience building scalable enterprise applications and AI-driven platforms. Proven track record in developing robust solutions using Java, Spring Boot, Angular, and modern cloud technologies to drive business impact.

Full-Stack Engineer specialized in bridging complex AI/ML pipelines (RAG, Gemini 2.0, Vertex AI) with high-performance microservices (Spring Boot, pgvector) and modular frontend architectures (Angular, TypeScript). Obsessed with optimizing system latency, database query execution, and orchestrating seamless CI/CD workflows.

Technical Expertise

Frontend

Angular, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3

Backend & Databases

Java, Spring Boot, Python, SQL, MySQL

Tools & Cloud

Git, Docker, Jenkins, OpenShift, Jira, Agile

~/skills/frontend$ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x Angular v14+
drwxr-xr-x React
-rw-r--r-- TypeScript
-rw-r--r-- RxJS
drwxr-xr-x Component-Driven UI
~/skills/backend$ cat stack.json
{
  "core": ["Java", "Spring Boot", "Python"],
  "db": ["MySQL", "pgvector"],
  "arch": ["Microservices", "REST APIs"]
}
~/skills/ai_devops$ status
Models: Gemini 2.0 Pro/Flash, Vertex AI
Patterns: RAG, Text Embeddings, Cosine Sim
CI/CD: OpenShift, Harness, Docker, Jenkins

Experience

Systems Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Mar 2025 – Present
  • Developed backend services and frontend workflows for Friday.ai, an AI-assisted test automation platform tailored for the enterprise banking domain.
  • Integrated enterprise APIs (Zephyr, Jira, Confluence) to streamline QA planning and execution workflows.
  • Utilized Generative AI tools to automate requirements analysis, evaluate test cases, and generate test code efficiently.
  • Engineered a semantic search microservice using pgvector and Vertex AI embeddings (text-embedding-005) to compute cosine similarity for test case deduplication.
  • Built advanced RAG pipelines integrating Gemini 2.0 Pro/Flash with dynamic prompt templates for autonomous Gherkin constraint generation.
  • Developed full-stack features connecting Zephyr Enterprise APIs to automate PR workflows and export artifacts directly from the Angular SPA.
  • Managed multi-environment CI/CD orchestration leveraging Harness and OpenShift.

Project-based Skill Enhancement

Independent / Peer Collaboration
Jul 2024 – Feb 2025
  • Collaborated to design, prototype, and refine an end-to-end proof-of-concept SaaS application.
  • Focused on creating intuitive user-centric interfaces and reliable backend APIs.
  • Architected RESTful endpoints and data schemas using Java Spring Boot.
  • Designed modular, component-driven frontend architecture focusing on responsive layouts and efficient API data-binding.
  • Deepened expertise in distributed system design and relational database modeling.

Software Engineer

Systems Technology Group Infotech Inc (STGIT)
Mar 2022 – Jun 2024
  • Architected and maintained a comprehensive HR and project management system.
  • Migrated legacy applications to modern web standards, significantly improving application performance and user experience.
  • Developed highly responsive dashboards for internal B2B data visualization and reporting.
  • Spearheaded modernization: re-architected a legacy Struts (JSP) monolith into decoupled Spring Boot microservices and a modern Angular SPA.
  • Optimized MySQL database structures with advanced query indexing to drastically reduce execution latency for complex payroll workflows.
  • Engineered custom frontend routing strategies and dynamic UI workflows for complex corporate employee onboarding schemas.

Education

B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering

NBKR Institute of Science & Technology

2017 – 2021

Certifications

Oracle Certified Associate

Java SE 8 Programmer (1Z0-808)