Aravind Sekar
Backend Developer | Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL
Chennai, Tamil Naduaravind.sekar@example.com+91 9xxxx xxxxxlinkedin.com/in/aravind-sekargithub.com/aravind-sekar
Profile
Computer science graduate who has shipped three backend services, one of them still in daily use by 400 hostel residents. Comfortable in Java and Spring Boot, confident with relational data modelling, and looking for a backend role where testing and code review are part of the normal week.
Experience
Software Engineering Intern, Trellisoft Technologies
Chennai
- Built four REST endpoints for the order service in Java and Spring Boot, covering search, filtering and pagination across a catalogue of 12,000 items.
- Cut the catalogue query from 840ms to 210ms by adding a composite index and removing an N+1 lookup found during profiling.
- Wrote 46 unit and integration tests with JUnit and Testcontainers, taking module coverage from 31 to 78 percent.
- Worked in two-week sprints with a team of six and presented completed work at sprint review.
Projects
Campus Mess Billing System
- Replaced a shared spreadsheet used by 400 hostel residents with a service that generates monthly bills and tracks payment status.
- Modelled seven tables with foreign key constraints and wrote the reconciliation query that flags mismatched entries before bills are issued.
- Deployed with Docker Compose on a college server and in continuous use since August 2025.
Transit Delay Notifier
- Polls a public transit feed every two minutes and pushes delay alerts to subscribers.
- Used Redis to deduplicate alerts, which removed almost all repeat notifications during a two-week test.
Education
B.E. Computer Science and Engineering
Meridian Institute of Technology, Chennai · CGPA 8.4 / 10
Skills
Achievements
- Runner-up in a 24-hour inter-college hackathon, 2025, in a team of four.
- Ran a weekly aptitude study group of 30 classmates through the placement season.