Senior Java / Backend Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating backend systems across telecommunications, enterprise security, and e-commerce domains. Strong hands-on expertise in Java 8-21, Spring Boot, microservices, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch, with experience spanning architecture, production troubleshooting, observability, performance testing, code quality, and automated testing. Delivered distributed systems using CQRS and Event Sourcing, security-focused backend platforms, and containerized production services, including JMeter-based performance testing in e-commerce systems. Documented impact includes a 45% reduction in code smells and duplications and an increase in automated test coverage from 22% to 75%.