Summary
Vibin Damodaran is a Staff Software Engineer with 9 years of focused experience building Java-based web applications and microservices, currently leading backend and cloud initiatives at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He designs and implements Spring Boot microservices, integrates event-driven systems with Kafka and AWS SQS/SNS, and architects cloud infrastructure using Terraform while leveraging MongoDB, Spark, and REST APIs for data processing. Comfortable across the full stack, he has a long history with ORM (Hibernate/JPA, iBATIS), SQL, and front-end migrations to React, and has driven API testing automation with Gatling/Scala. Based in Boston, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a systems view—often owning the end-to-end pipeline from API design through cloud deployment and observability. An understated strength is his ability to translate legacy J2EE systems into modern microservice architectures while ensuring reliable message-driven processing.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer