Backend engineer who keeps APIs from falling over.
I'm Smriti — I build REST APIs, microservices, and the boring-but-critical backend plumbing (auth, queues, database tuning) that makes products actually work at scale.
Who's writing this code
I've spent the last couple of years mostly heads-down in Spring Boot — building REST APIs, wiring up authentication systems, and occasionally staying late to figure out why a query that worked fine on 100 rows fell over at 10,000. I like backend work because the wins are usually invisible: nothing broke, the response time dropped, the on-call phone stayed quiet.
Lately I've also been folding Generative AI into backend systems — not as a buzzword, but as another service to call, validate, and keep from timing out like everything else.
git log --oneline --experience
Software Engineer
- Architected RESTful APIs and microservices in Java/Spring Boot across multiple client applications, lifting backend throughput 35%.
- Refactored SQL queries and backend logic, cutting average API response time by 20%.
- Built an event-driven Email Notification service from scratch — configurable templates, automated triggers, decoupled from core business logic.
- Owned WordPress/WooCommerce plugin integrations, shipping secure real-time API connections to production.
Software Engineer
- Built Java-based REST APIs connecting WooCommerce to Shopee, Qoo10 and Discogs — syncing product/order data for 10,000+ active users.
- Architected a token-validated OTP verification system (Spring Security + JWT), cutting unauthorized access attempts by 98%.
- Led root-cause analysis on production incidents, reducing recurring backend errors.
Junior Web Developer
- Built and maintained production WordPress applications with custom PHP themes and plugins.
- Implemented authentication and role-based access control for client-facing systems.
- Optimized database queries, measurably improving page load times.
Things I've actually shipped
ShopKart
private repoFull e-commerce platform with role-based Admin, Seller and Customer views — auth, cart, and order management end to end. Deployed on AWS, endpoints documented with Swagger.
RefineSnap-SpringAI
publicAI image generation app — Spring Boot + Spring AI backend calling OpenAI DALL·E 3, non-blocking async endpoints so requests don't queue behind each other.
CosmicAstro-SpringAI
publicFull-stack AI astrology app built with Spring Boot and Spring AI, using Gemini to turn user input into structured, consistent predictions instead of freeform text.
Plant-Identifying-AI
publicSpring Boot app that identifies plants from uploaded photos using AI vision models, then returns scientific name, habitat, and care tips.
Taskify
publicRole-based task management system. Spent more time than I'd like to admit on the Hibernate/JPA query plan — cut database round-trips by 40% in the process.
Job-App-Microservice
publicJob application platform split into Spring Boot microservices, with Eureka and Feign Client handling service discovery instead of hardcoded URLs.