Java Developer resume example

Java openings are often filtered on exact skills — Spring Boot, Hibernate, microservices, Kafka — and years of experience. Put them where a recruiter scanning for 10 seconds will see them.

Pradeep Reddy

Java Developer · Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka

Hyderabad · name@email.com · +91 98xxx xxxxx

Summary

Java developer with 5 years building banking and insurance back ends in Spring Boot. Experienced in breaking monoliths into microservices and keeping them reliable in production.

Experience

Senior Java Developer · An IT services company (banking client)

Jan 2023 – Present

  • Split a loan-processing monolith into 9 Spring Boot microservices, cutting release time from monthly to weekly
  • Built Kafka-based event processing for 3 million transactions a day with no data loss
  • Mentored 4 junior developers and ran code reviews for the team

Java Developer · An insurance software company

Jul 2021 – Dec 2022

  • Developed REST APIs with Spring Boot and Hibernate for the policy administration system
  • Cut batch job run time from 5 hours to 50 minutes by tuning SQL queries and JVM settings

Education

B.Tech, Electronics and Communication · An engineering college, Telangana

2021

Skills

Java 17 · Spring Boot · Spring Security · Hibernate / JPA · Microservices · Kafka · Oracle · PostgreSQL · JUnit · Docker · Jenkins

Tips for a Java developer resume

  • ✓State your Java version and frameworks plainly — “Java 17, Spring Boot 3” — in the summary and skills.
  • ✓For service-company projects, name the client’s domain (banking, insurance, retail) and what you built.
  • ✓Give total experience in years at the top: many recruiters filter on it before reading anything else.

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