Summary
Nirmal Ravi is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, scalable microservices and authorization systems for large enterprises. He has led design and implementation efforts across Java, Scala, Spring, Play, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and cloud/container platforms, and managed services handling tens of millions of daily requests. At Optum he authored architectural decision records and shipped libraries that materially improved authorization speed and integration; he now continues at Meta driving impactful systems work. Comfortable in ambiguous problem spaces, he prefers roles that blend hands-on development, architecture, and technical leadership, and is open to Chicago-based or remote full-time opportunities. An unusual strength is his track record of converting operational pain points into reusable platform components that simplify downstream integrations.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Vel Tech University
Tamil, English