Piyush Arya

• Developed high-performance RESTful web services to facilitate smooth communication between different components of the application.
• Deployed applications using containerization technologies such as Docker, ensuring consistent runtime environments across development, testing, and production stages.
• Evaluated and developed new tools and technologies to help achieve company-level goals.
• Designed scalable microservices architecture for better manageability and flexibility in response to changing business requirements.
• Optimized machine learning models for improved prediction accuracy and performance.

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• Integrated Kafka into a Spring Boot microservice to consume and deserialize high-volume transaction messages using a configurable topic and embedded Kafka test framework.
• Implemented transaction validation and persistence logic with Spring Data JPA and an H2 SQL database, including entity modeling and balance updates across relational User records.
• Connected the service to an external REST Incentive API using RestTemplate, processing incentive responses and incorporating them into transactional workflows.
• Developed a REST endpoint for querying user balances, returning JSON responses through a Spring controller while maintaining clean architectural boundaries.
• Verified system behavior using Maven test suites and debugger-driven inspection, ensuring reliability across message ingestion, database operations, and external API interactions.