Vinay Reddy Kalluri

🚀 KVR Dev Labs — by Vinay Reddy Kalluri

Where Emotion Meets Engineering.

Welcome to KVR Dev Labs, the indie product studio created by Vinay Reddy Kalluri — a backend engineer, indie maker, and data enthusiast — on a mission to turn ideas into impactful, scalable, and dopamine-rich digital products.

We build emotionally intelligent, AI-enhanced, and privacy-first mobile & web apps that blend beautiful UX with robust engineering — helping users connect, remember, and grow. ❤️✨📲

🌟 Flagship Creations

🎮 Flames Match – Dopamine-rich couple games (FLAMES, Love Meter, Cupid Test, Love Bingo, Truth or Dare, etc.)
🧠 Revisitly – Personal memory vault, birthday & event reminders, AI greeting generator, contact + calendar sync
💸 MyFinanceBuddy – Finance calculators for India + USA (EMI, SIP, retirement, PPF, NPS, 401k, HSA, etc.)
🗺️ WorkVisaInsights – Advanced H-1B salary, employer & job intelligence with real-time dashboards and denial trends

💼 Resume — Vinay Reddy Kalluri

📍 Location & Contact

📌 Atlanta, Georgia, USA
📧 vinayreddykalluri@gmail.com
🔗 LinkedIn | GitHub | Website

👨‍💻 Professional Summary

Senior Backend Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing and scaling Java-based distributed systems and event-driven architectures. Proven record of building cloud-native microservices, optimizing performance in Kafka-powered data pipelines, and delivering scalable APIs on AWS.

Recognized for delivering 35TB+ data migrations, building resilient systems, and leading backend architecture for enterprise & fintech use cases. Equally passionate about building consumer-grade mobile apps as an indie founder under KVR Dev Labs.

🧠 Core Technical Skills

Category	Tools & Technologies
Languages	Java (Primary), Python, SQL, Shell Script
Frameworks	Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, JPA, Hibernate, REST
Data & Messaging	Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
DevOps & Cloud	AWS (EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3), Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, GitHub Actions
Testing & Tools	JUnit 5, Mockito, Postman, Swagger, IntelliJ, Maven, Gradle, Notion

🏢 Work Experience

🚀 UST — Developer III, Software Engineering (Jan 2024 – Present · Atlanta, GA)

Architected & deployed a Sales Incentive Compensation Platform using Kafka, MySQL, Spring Boot
Led 35TB+ data migration with parallel SQL batch execution (cut load time 75%)
Improved API throughput by 20% using Redis cache, JVM tuning, and async execution
Engineered 99.9% reliable data pipelines with multi-level retries and failure recovery
Delivered real-time synchronization using Kafka + event-driven microservices

💼 Hays UK — Software Consultant (Mar 2023 – Jan 2024 · Kansas City, MO)

Modernized 20+ monoliths into Spring Cloud microservices on AWS
Designed Kafka-based streaming for commission workflows and audit logs
Implemented IaC using AWS CloudFormation and integrated CI/CD workflows
Supported high concurrency APIs (100K+ concurrent users) with throttling and fallback

🏥 Legato Health Tech — Software Engineer (Dec 2019 – Dec 2021 · Hyderabad, India)

Built secure health services handling millions of patient records daily
Designed Kafka-based interoperability pipelines decoupling service dependencies
Reduced ETL latency by 30% using SQL optimization and smart batching

🏢 Cognizant — Programmer Analyst (Sep 2017 – Nov 2019 · Hyderabad, India)

Delivered microservices for Anthem Inc. processing 1M+ Kafka events/day
Reduced query response times by 35% with Redis + SQL index tuning
Built internal tools reducing manual work by 60% across departments

🏆 Key Achievements

🧠 35TB+ Data Pipeline — Successfully migrated critical data assets using orchestrated SQL and resilient retry logic
🏅 7-Time Impact Award Winner at Elevance Health for distributed systems excellence
⚙️ API Performance Optimization — Increased throughput 20% via async design + JVM profiling
🔄 Built fully automated, fault-tolerant pipelines ensuring data accuracy and flow consistency

🎓 Education

🎓 M.S. in Computer Science, University of Missouri–Kansas City (GPA: 3.9/4.0)
Hack-A-Roo Winner · ML Research Assistant
🎓 M.S. in Software Engineering, VIT University, India (GPA: 9.3/10)
Gold Medalist · Android Club President

📄 Publication

🧪 Real-Time Driver Fatigue Detection Using Face Image Streams — IJCET 2017