Hi, I'm

Jagrit Vats

Software Engineer

Backend-focused engineer building containerized Spring Boot microservices, event-driven systems, and distributed workflows at scale.

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About Me

Backend-focused Software Engineer with experience building containerized Spring Boot microservices, event-driven systems, and distributed workflows at scale. Skilled in designing async flows using Kafka, optimizing and improving deployment automation, and implementing reliable multi-stage journeys.

Comfortable with debugging real-world issues, contributing to architecture decisions, and working across CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and application development.

Certifications

AZ-900

Azure Fundamentals

DP-900

Azure Data Fundamentals

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Work Experience

Owning end-to-end design of async/event-driven features using Kafka with DLQs, retries, in-memory and Redis caching, and multi-stage orchestration of business workflows.
Developing high-reliability Spring Boot microservices with focus on fault tolerance, throughput, and production stability using modern design patterns.
Improved service startup time by approximately 2x and contributed to backend architecture reviews for new modules.
Automated deployment workflows via CI/CD, OpenAPI/Swagger-based contract automation, and custom scripts, improving release consistency.
Implemented backend modules during internship involving async flows, scheduled jobs, and business logic; contributed to production debugging and tracing enhancements.

Worked on a React + TypeScript application with Figma API for plugin creation.
Developed and implemented UI components using appropriate frontend design patterns.

Projects

Locally Hosted AI Assistant Platform

Next.js Express MongoDB Kafka Ollama

Built a locally-hosted AI assistant supporting contextual conversations, threaded activities, and action execution.
Designed an event-driven backend using Kafka to handle message flows, task execution, and cross-platform delivery.
Implemented concurrency using threaded workers to support parallel LLM interactions and background actions.
Developed multi-platform delivery (Web + Telegram bot) with shared backend services.
Engineered contextual memory storage and retrieval using MongoDB for persistent AI state across sessions.

Email Template Management System

Next.js MongoDB Shopify API

Built an application authenticating with Shopify stores to send transactional emails based on reusable templates.
Implemented template management and persistence using MongoDB.

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Skills

Backend & Distributed Systems

Java Spring Boot Microservices Kafka REST APIs Multithreading Concurrency

Application Layer

TypeScript Node.js (Express)

Databases & Storage

MongoDB Redis

DevOps & Cloud

Docker CI/CD Azure Pipelines Containerized Deployments

Frontend

React

AI & Systems

Ollama (Local LLMs) Context Pipelines