Apple (via Infosys)
Specialist Programmer
- Played a key role developing and enhancing React interfaces for Apple’s internal ETL platform, working across UI and backend layers for a system used by over 5,000 employees.
- Worked closely with UX designers on high-visibility application entry points, improving navigation and feature discoverability across the platform.
- Upgraded the entire application to the latest React version and introduced new UI components and rendering optimizations, improving front-end performance by 50%.
- Built and optimized RESTful backend services in Java, streaming data between systems with Apache Kafka and using parallel API execution to cut backend response times by 20% under sustained production load.
- Developed and maintained a separate Node.js service powering an internal admin dashboard for the data engineering team, run alongside the core Java backend.
- Deployed and managed containerized services on Kubernetes alongside AWS (S3, Lambda, ECS, RDS), configuring auto-scaling and CloudWatch monitoring with automated CI/CD deployments to improve platform reliability.
- Wrote Python-based internal tooling and CLI utilities to automate environment setup, log parsing, and data validation, plus unit and integration tests with JUnit to keep services reliable.












