Pothuganti Thilak Reddy
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Toptal member since February 17, 2026
Thilak is a senior full-stack engineer specializing in React, TypeScript, FastAPI, and Spring Boot. He builds scalable SaaS platforms with measurable business impact. He independently designed and launched a FastAPI and Next.js platform using event-driven architecture, serving 4,000+ daily users with sub-40ms response times. He also led the development of enterprise React and Spring Boot systems that reduced partner onboarding from 25 days to three days, improving operational efficiency.
Portfolio
Experience
- Python - 4 years
- PostgreSQL - 4 years
- Next.js - 4 years
- FastAPI - 4 years
- TypeScript - 4 years
- Java - 3 years
- Docker - 3 years
- Event-driven Architecture - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Linux, Docker, Git, Amazon EC2, PostgreSQL, Grafana
The most amazing...
...thing I’ve built is an event-driven platform using FastAPI and Next.js, ranked #1 on Google, and serving thousands of students daily.
Work Experience
Software Engineer
Maersk
- Built and maintained back-end services using Java, Kafka, and Temporal, designing event-driven workflows and reliable asynchronous processing systems.
- Refactored and modernized legacy UI codebases, improving performance, component reusability, and maintainability, resulting in reduced technical debt and faster feature delivery.
- Led end-to-end development and ownership of internal React and TypeScript applications supporting enterprise logistics operations, delivering stable releases with zero major post-production defects.
- Implemented Microsoft SSO (Azure AD) authentication and role-based access control (RBAC), enabling secure access management across multiple user groups and ensuring compliance with enterprise security standards.
- Architected and implemented a front-end-driven integration workflow that reduced external partner onboarding time from 25 days to three days, accelerating partner activation and improving operational efficiency.
Software Engineer
Liorra Tech
- Served as the primary back-end Java engineer for a multi-role nurse recruitment platform supporting nurses, hiring staff, administrators, and consultants.
- Designed and implemented secure authentication and role-based access control (RBAC) to manage permissions across user groups and protect sensitive healthcare data.
- Engineered an automated job ingestion system that scraped listings from the NIMS portal, processed data through a queue-based workflow, and delivered near real-time job notifications, eliminating manual entry (10 minutes per nurse per posting).
- Implemented document verification workflows using Amazon S3 for secure storage and approval gating, ensuring only verified nurses could operate within the platform.
- Collaborated with front-end and stakeholders to streamline hiring workflows and improve operational efficiency.
Site Reliability Engineer
Maersk
- Collaborated cross-functionally with back-end, SRE, and product teams across global time zones to align technical implementation with business priorities and ensure system reliability.
- Designed and implemented Microsoft Power Automate cloud flows to automate incident intake, category-based routing, and rule-driven assignment across teams using Outlook and Microsoft Teams integrations.
- Integrated Excel logging and notification workflows to centralize request tracking, improve visibility, and reduce manual triaging effort across operational teams.
Experience
JNTUH Connect – Centralized Results Platform
https://jntuhconnect.dhethi.com/• Architected a responsive, SEO-optimized front end using Next.js and TypeScript to deliver fast, intuitive experiences across devices, ensuring high engagement during peak traffic periods.
• Engineered a custom FastAPI-based results processing system, achieving sub-40ms response times across all semesters, even under concurrent load.
• Designed a scalable back-end architecture leveraging RabbitMQ for asynchronous request handling and Redis for intelligent caching, ensuring consistent performance during high-volume result announcements.
• Deployed and managed the infrastructure on Amazon EC2 using Docker for reproducible, scalable deployments, with proactive monitoring via Prometheus and Grafana, and structured logging through Loki to ensure high availability and rapid incident resolution.
The platform has become a critical academic resource relied upon by thousands of students for timely and reliable result access.
Healthcare Recruitment & Automation Platform
Built an automated job ingestion pipeline that scraped listings from the NIMS portal, processed them through a queue-based workflow, and synchronized them with the platform in near real time. This eliminated manual data entry (previously around 10 minutes per job per nurse) and enabled instant job notifications.
Developed a document verification system where uploaded credentials were securely stored in Amazon S3 and gated behind an approval workflow, ensuring only verified nurses could access and operate within the platform.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTUH) - Hyderabad, India
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, React Testing Library, Node.js, Beautiful Soup 4, Vue 3, Zod, OpenAI API
Tools
RabbitMQ, Prisma, Loki, SendGrid, Helm, Figma, Git, Grafana, Pytest
Languages
Java, Python, SQL, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go
Frameworks
Spring Boot, Next.js, Redux, Django, Selenium, Jest, Locust
Paradigms
Automation, Asynchronous Programming, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Event-driven Architecture, Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
Platforms
Linux, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vercel, Microsoft Power Automate, Amazon EC2, Kubernetes, Twilio
Storage
PostgreSQL, Redis, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Other
FastAPI, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), API Integration, Data Extraction, Data Scraping, Web Scraping, Cloudflare, Figma to React, APIs, Artificial Intelligence (AI), CI/CD Pipelines, Cloud, Architecture, Supabase, AI Agents, GitHub Actions, Distributed Systems, Event-driven Systems, WebSockets, Legacy Code, Prometheus
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