Candidate C-03
Priya Sharma
Senior Backend Engineer · Fintech
Priya Sharma
Bengaluru, India
8 years experience
AI summary
Priya Sharma has eight years of evidenced backend experience, including six years building Java and Spring Boot payment services and earlier Java and Spring work at Freecharge. The resume evidences REST APIs, PostgreSQL schema and query optimization, Docker, AWS, Kafka, and GitHub Actions; it does not demonstrate Kubernetes, and it does not explicitly state schema design or CI/CD maintenance.
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- Partially met2
- Unverified1
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Your resume describes deploying production workloads with AWS ECS; have you also deployed or operated workloads in a production Kubernetes environment? Please describe the systems involved, your responsibilities, and how you handled deployment, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
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Has at least 5 years of professional backend development experience
The resume shows professional backend roles from 2017 to 2025, including six years building payment services.
Demonstrates strong Java skills
Six years of building payment services in Java demonstrates substantial professional Java experience.
Has production experience with Spring Boot
The resume explicitly describes Spring Boot services being run in staging and production.
Can design and build REST APIs
The resume explicitly states that Priya designed and built REST APIs serving over 2 million requests per month.
Has PostgreSQL experience, including schema design and query optimisation
PostgreSQL experience and query optimization are explicit, and the resume also describes optimizing the schema. However, it does not explicitly demonstrate schema design.
Has Docker experience
The resume explicitly states that all Spring Boot services were Dockerised and run in staging and production.
Has used Kubernetes in production
nice to haveThe resume shows production-oriented container deployment with AWS ECS, which is related, but it does not mention Kubernetes.
Kubernetes in production
Deployed services to AWS ECS with blue-green releases.
Production experience deploying or operating workloads on Kubernetes.
Your resume describes deploying production workloads with AWS ECS; have you also deployed or operated workloads in a production Kubernetes environment? Please describe the systems involved, your responsibilities, and how you handled deployment, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
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Which Kubernetes platform and tools did you use, and can you walk through a specific production incident or operational challenge you personally resolved?
Has AWS experience
nice to haveThe resume explicitly describes deploying services to AWS ECS.
Has experience with Kafka or another event-streaming platform
nice to haveThe resume explicitly describes building Kafka event pipelines for settlement reconciliation across four consumer groups.
Can build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
nice to haveThe resume demonstrates setting up a CI/CD pipeline in GitHub Actions, but it does not explicitly describe maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Evaluation report
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Requirement | Resume | Interview | Final |
|---|---|---|---|
REQ-01Has at least 5 years of professional backend development experience | Met | — | Met |
REQ-02Demonstrates strong Java skills | Met | — | Met |
REQ-03Has production experience with Spring Boot | Met | — | Met |
REQ-04Can design and build REST APIs | Met | — | Met |
REQ-05Has PostgreSQL experience, including schema design and query optimisation | Partial | — | Partial |
REQ-06Has Docker experience | Met | — | Met |
REQ-07Has used Kubernetes in production | Unverified | — | Unverified |
REQ-08Has AWS experience | Met | — | Met |
REQ-09Has experience with Kafka or another event-streaming platform | Met | — | Met |
REQ-10Can build and maintain CI/CD pipelines | Partial | — | Partial |
Evaluation incomplete — 1 area remain unvalidated
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