Hi, I'm

John Pranoy Yalla

Full Stack Software Engineer · 7+ years · Atlanta, GA

Open to full-time Software Engineer / Full Stack roles

Full stack software engineer with 7+ years building enterprise applications on AWS and Red Hat OpenShift - mostly Java and Spring Boot on the backend, Angular or React on the frontend. A lot of my work has involved event-driven systems with Apache Kafka.

Over the last couple of years I've gone deep into applied AI - RAG pipelines, tool-calling agents, and LLM integration with Spring AI, Pinecone, and pgvector. For my master's capstone at Kennesaw State, I built a production-grade conversational AI with an LLM-as-Judge layer to cut down on hallucinations - a full Spring Boot + React app, containerized and deployed on AWS.

Experience

A brief overview of my career

  1. Education

    M.S. Software Engineering

    Kennesaw State University

    Graduate Teaching Assistant for undergraduate Python — led lab sessions and code reviews. Graduate Research Assistant on SBFL fault localization (Maven plugin with PITest) and Unity VR consumer behavior research. Capstone: production-grade conversational AI with Spring AI, RAG, and an LLM-as-Judge layer. Co-authored papers at ACM VRST '25 and IEEE INFOCOM 2025.

    PythonSpring AIJavaUnityResearch
  2. Work

    Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

    Evoke Technologies (Client: CSC, USA)

    Owned end-to-end development across the full SDLC. Built RESTful APIs and GraphQL endpoints with Spring Boot microservices (~30% faster response times). Implemented Kafka event-driven workflows and Redis caching (~40% latency reduction). Refactored a legacy monolith into Docker/OpenShift microservices with zero-downtime Jenkins CI/CD. Delivered an Angular 14 SPA with Elasticsearch search, OAuth 2.0/JWT auth, and 80%+ test coverage.

    JavaSpring BootAngularKafkaOpenShift
  3. Work

    Java Software Engineer

    Capgemini (Client: MUFG Union Bank, USA)

    Progressed from Intern, to Software Engineer and finally to Senior Software Engineer. Modernized legacy banking applications into event-driven microservices with Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka. Deployed to AWS (EC2, S3, RDS). Optimized SQL and stored procedures (~35% batch runtime reduction). Built Splunk dashboards that cut MTTR by ~50% and Selenium automation in Jenkins that shrank QA cycles from days to under a day.

    JavaSpring BootKafkaAWSSplunk

Featured Projects

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Highlighted work across AI, backend systems, and research — 4 projects with live demos. View all 8 →

Publications

Peer-reviewed research from graduate work at Kennesaw State University

ACM VRST '25

Understanding Retail Planograms through Virtual Reality-based Shopper Shelf Perception Analytics

How VR, spatial heatmaps, and shelf-level histograms reveal how planogram design shapes shopper behavior in retail environments.

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IEEE INFOCOM 2025 Workshop

RAG-Driven 3D Question Answering in Edge-Assisted Virtual Reality

OfficeVR-QA — an edge-assisted VR framework that uses retrieval-augmented generation for accurate, context-aware 3D question answering in virtual environments.

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Tech Stack

Technologies I work with, grouped by domain

Languages

Java · TypeScript · JavaScript · Python · SQL

Backend

Spring Boot · Spring AI · GraphQL · Microservices · Hibernate / JPA

Frontend

React · Angular · HTML5 / CSS3 · Bootstrap

AI & LLM

RAG Pipelines · Tool Calling · Pinecone / pgvector · Prompt Engineering

Cloud & DevOps

AWS · Docker · Kubernetes / OpenShift · Jenkins / GitHub Actions · CI/CD

Messaging & Data

Apache Kafka · Redis · PostgreSQL · Elasticsearch · MongoDB

Contact Me

Feel free to reach out. I'm always open to discussing new projects and opportunities.

Email johnpranoy7@gmail.com Phone +1 678-249-9518 GitHub github.com/johnpranoy7 LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/johnpranoy7