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Arun Merum is a senior backend developer based in Berlin, Germany with over 16 years of experience developing software using technologies like Java, Kotlin, Scala, Python, Go, and TypeScript. He has extensive experience designing distributed systems using microservices and technologies like AWS, Kafka, and Terraform. His most recent role was as the lead backend developer for a confidential client where he developed microservices to handle voter data and analytics for India's 2024 elections.

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Arun Merum Senior Backend Developer Java Kotlin Springboot AWS TDD

Arun Merum is a senior backend developer based in Berlin, Germany with over 16 years of experience developing software using technologies like Java, Kotlin, Scala, Python, Go, and TypeScript. He has extensive experience designing distributed systems using microservices and technologies like AWS, Kafka, and Terraform. His most recent role was as the lead backend developer for a confidential client where he developed microservices to handle voter data and analytics for India's 2024 elections.

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ARUN MERUM

SENIOR BACKEND DEVELOPER BERLIN, 13089, GERMANY +4915166458336

DETAILS PROFILE

Tino Schwierzina Str, 30c I have about 16 years (with 6 years in Germany) of experience in software development
Berlin, 13089 and maintenance during which I have worked with various technologies and languages. I
Germany am always keen to learn new technologies and putting them to test. I have demonstrated
+4915166458336 the expertise to design and architect distributed applications using distributed design
[email protected] patterns. Gained expertise with AWS and helped DevOps team with data migrations and
writing Terraform scripts.
Date of birth
16/06/1983

Nationality EMPLOYMENT HISTORY


Indian Lead Developer at (Confidential), Berlin
April 2023 — July 2023
LINKS Being the only Backed Developer, designed and developed a system that would handle
Gthub the forthcoming elections in India in 2024.

Linkedin Responsibilities:

• Developed a micro-service that allows the booth level representative to input the
SKILLS
voter numbers and demographic information along the expected percentage of
Java8,11,17, Kotlin & scala voters who are in favor of the candidate and are likely to vote. Keeping in miind of
the trafic this micro service is likely to attract, Kafka has been used for aggregating
Python
data.
go-lang • Developed a micro-service that could captures pre and exit polls information and
compare how accurate they are.
Typescript
• Developed a micro-service using spring-boot to capture voter trends
spring-boot, spring-MVC • Developed a micro-service using spring-boot to capture elections results
• Developed a micro-service that provides the data that is required to dashboard vote
JavaScript share details.

Node.js • Setup the Kafka infrastructure and maintained the same.

Quarkus
Senior Backend Developer at Star Systems, Bangalore, India
Amazon AWS (Lambda, Step October 2022 — March 2023
Functions, API Gateway,EC2, SNS, • Set up the infrastructure using Terraform
SQS, DynamoDB, Cloud Watch) • Developed micro-services using spring-boot and monitored the same using

GCP (Pub/Sub, GCF) Prometheus and Grafana


• Developed the search module for courses, learning plans.
Hibernate & Jakarta persistance • Developed a module to aggregate the data from various LMS databases and store
APIs & serve the data in an LMS neutral way.
• Developed an LMS neutral platform to pull/push the data from/to various LMS
JUnit, Mockito, Spock
systems E.g Moodle, SABA, etc
Kafka

Elasticsearch Senior Backend Developer at REWE Digital, Berlin


April 2022 — September 2022
Oracle, PostgreSQL & MySQL
• Migrated PostgreSQL database from one GCP cluster to another GCP cluster and
MongoDB brought down the expected downtime from 6 hours to 45 minutes
GraphQL • Migrated a micro-service from Rust-lang to spring-boot there by reducing the
maintenance costs.
Flyway & Liquibase
• Involved in discussions with the architecture team in and actively proposed
Docker, Kubernetes & Helm Charts solutions.
• Helped the DevOps team in migrating the infrastructure using Terraform.
Design & Development
Methodologies
Senior Backend Developer at Perseus Technologies GmbH, Berlin
Backend Software Development & August 2020 — February 2022
Design
• Developed and maintained the core application as well as identifying
Terraform functionalities that could be micro-services in their own right there by functionally
decomposing the monolith which made the platform scalable along the y-axis.
CI/CD
• Developed multiple micro-services and orchestrated them to work together.
Maven & Gradle • Developed and maintained data-lake that contains events gathered from various
down stream systems so that the data could be analyzed.
Jenkns & Gitlab Actions • Developed a portal for the security analysts using AWS SAM model thereby bringing

TDD down the cost of operations significantly.

Senior Backend Developer at Windeln.de SE, Munich


LANGUAGES
February 2018 — August 2020
English
• Developed and maintained a micro-service to gather statistics regarding the
German products being sold.
• Integrated the core application with the search engine FactFinder.de
Spanish • Developed a compiler to parse Solr queries to FactFinder.de queries.
• Developed a framework to make adding additional search-filters by changing
property files.
HOBBIES

Reading, programming and Lead Backend Developer at Fair Isaac Germany GmbH, Bensheim/Bengaluru
swimming. August 2016 — January 2018

• Developed an Anti Money Laundering platform.


• Developed an application that monitors the systems for various metrics and
generates alerts if the system health is about to go low using predictive algorithms
using ELK stack and data science libraries
• Developed a dash-boarding application for a popular mobile carrier using
CouchbaseDB and M2 systems.

EDUCATION
B. Tech, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad
July 2000 — July 2004

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