Rasega Babu Kavitha

About

Full-stack engineer who has shipped a real-time social engagement feature (live messaging + personalized feeds) for a career networking platform, owning everything from WebSockets/SSE and JWT+Redis auth through Docker/Kubernetes production deployment. Also built a production Flask backend for an AI-driven movie recommendation system on AWS, with strong API design (versioning/error standards) and hands-on performance tuning (Typesense +47% query improvement, Postgres indexing, Redis caching, CloudWatch-driven incident response).

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Shipped real-time messaging + personalized activity feed to production for thousands of concurrent users
• Designed scalable Node.js microservices with independent scaling for messaging/auth
• Implemented real-time delivery via WebSockets and SSE with connection optimization
• Built JWT auth with Redis-backed session management
• Improved search/query performance by 47% via Typesense integration
• Production DevOps ownership: Docker containerization, Kubernetes deployment, CI/CD automation
• Performance and reliability engineering: caching, rate limiting, pagination, autoscaling, health checks
• Designed and optimized PostgreSQL schemas for feed/messaging workloads using composite indexes and EXPLAIN ANALYZE
• Handled AWS production scaling incident end-to-end (CloudWatch analysis, query optimization, Redis caching, autoscaling adjustments)
• Delivered polished React+TypeScript UI with optimistic updates, robust loading/error states, and WebSocket reconnection handling
• Built and operated a Flask REST API with versioning, standardized error handling, modular architecture, and unit tests