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SMITA PRAJAPATI

Pune, Maharashtra +91 8319765034 Email LinkedIn GitHub Medium LeetCode

Summary

Software Engineer with 2+ years building production backend systems in Java/Spring Boot at Deutsche Bank — designing REST APIs and microservices for secure data ingestion and workflow orchestration. Silver Medalist (NIT Raipur, 9.53 CGPA). Open-source Software Engineer with 260+ merged pull requests as a Google Summer of Code 2026 contributor to Checkstyle, building developer tooling used by 1,000+ developers. Comfortable owning a feature end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, and deployment.

Technical Skills

Java / Spring Boot95%
Microservices & REST APIs92%
JavaScript / TypeScript85%
Test Automation (Selenium/BDD)90%
Google Cloud Platform80%
CI/CD & DevOps85%
SQL / Database Design82%
Git / GitHub / Open Source96%

Work Experience

Senior Analyst
Deutsche Bank · Investment Banking · Pune, India
Jul 2024 — Present
  • Design and build backend microservices in Java/Spring Boot for secure data ingestion and workflow orchestration, exposing REST APIs consumed by downstream banking applications.
  • Implemented a Control-M–integrated microservice powering automated document-AI job execution, removing manual scheduling steps from a production pipeline.
  • Built a full-scale regression automation suite from scratch (200+ end-to-end tests), cutting manual QA effort by 80%.
  • Refactored core platform modules for a 50% reduction in code footprint; awarded the RCP Excellence Award.
Technology Analyst Intern
Deutsche Bank Group · Pune, India
May 2023 — Jul 2023
  • Built a centralized logging service using GWT Logger Utils and Splunk, cutting debugging time by 30%.
  • Automated regression testing using Allure reporting, improving test efficiency by 25%.
Open Source Software Engineer — Google Summer of Code 2026
Checkstyle · 9k+ GitHub stars · Static Analysis Tooling
Jun 2026 — Aug 2026
  • Delivered 260+ merged pull requests across 3 repositories (250+ hours vs. 175 planned) for a codebase used by 1,000+ Java developers.
  • Engineered an AST-comparison validation framework that reduced suppressed test cases by 94% (228 → 10).
  • Built a Maven-based SearchIndexGenerator and client-side search engine — full-text search across 2,500+ indexed entries.
  • Implemented a build-time Doxia macro for in-page TOC navigation across 300+ documentation pages.
  • Modernized CI/CD, cutting link-check time from 5–10 minutes to 30–60 seconds.

Projects

API Monitor

Reusable, zero-config Spring Boot observability framework for automatic REST API monitoring with P95/P99 latency analytics, alerting, and a live dashboard.

FinWise AI Voice Bot

Multilingual, voice-activated financial assistant on Google Cloud Dialogflow CX with Vertex AI for real-time banking information access.

GSoC 2026 Work Summary

Full documentation of 260+ merged PRs, metrics, and technical deep-dives from my Google Summer of Code 2026 contribution to Checkstyle.

Education

B.Tech, Electronics & Communication Engineering

National Institute of Technology, Raipur
9.53 CGPA · Silver Medalist · 2020 – 2024

Achievements