Abu Dhabi, UAE

Senior Java Developer

EmilMohammed

Microservices & Cloud-Native Systems

I engineer Java enterprise applications and cloud-native microservices for high-volume, regulated environments — from financial identity verification to air-cargo logistics.

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Years building Java systems

0K+

KYC transactions per day

0%+

Unit test coverage sustained

Manual workload eliminated

About

Building systems that don't blink under load.

Design and build microservices with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, JPA and Hibernate — from architecture through production deployment.

Event-driven architecture with Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ, containerized with Docker and Kubernetes.

CI/CD and DevOps practice with Jenkins, SonarQube and Git, consistently keeping automated test coverage above 90%.

Full-stack contributions with React, CSS3 and HTML5.

Six years of Agile/Scrum — grooming, planning and retrospectives.

Toolkit

The stack.

Languages

Java
SQL
JavaScript
HTML5
CSS3

Frameworks

Spring Boot
Spring Cloud
Microservices
JPA
Hibernate
RESTful APIs
WebClient
RestTemplate
Feign
JSP / Servlet
Maven
React
Mockito

Tools & Platforms

Docker
Kubernetes
Apache Kafka
RabbitMQ
NGINX
Jenkins
SonarQube
Git
JIRA
IntelliJ
Postman

Databases

PostgreSQL
Oracle
MSSQL
MySQL
Liquibase
Flyway

Experience

Where I've shipped.

Feb 2025 — Present
Emirates Face Recognition · Abu Dhabi, UAE
Now
Senior Java Developer
- Designed and developed scalable KYC microservices handling onboarding and identity verification for 10K+ users/transactions per day.
- Built the end-to-end KYC lifecycle — OCR validation, identity matching, risk categorization and approval workflows.
- Integrated external OCR and identity providers with retries, timeouts and circuit breakers for resilient production operation.
- Published KYC events to RabbitMQ for real-time downstream risk analysis, monitoring and alerting.
- Co-led high-level architecture with product, security and infrastructure teams; defined routing and load balancing with NGINX, ALB and NLB.
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Spring Data JPA
- RabbitMQ
- Flyway
- WebClient
- NGINX
Jun 2021 — May 2024
IBS Software · Kochi, India
Senior Software Developer
- Followed TDD with JUnit, sustaining 95%+ unit and 80%+ contract test coverage across delivered features.
- Enforced coding standards via SonarQube, keeping technical debt and critical smells below team thresholds.
- Shipped features across bi-weekly sprints with cross-functional Agile/Scrum teams, consistently on time.
- Java 11
- Spring Boot
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- Liquibase
- React
Feb 2019 — Jun 2021
UST · Trivandrum, India
Software Developer
- Built Java automation tools that cut manual operational workload by 60%.
- Maintained and optimized Java applications through proactive monitoring, improving performance and reducing downtime.
- Provided delivery support for IBM WebSphere Commerce services.
- Java 8
- Spring Boot
- Servlet
- JSP
- SQL
- WebSphere Commerce

Key projects

Selected work.

Emirates Face Recognition

KYC Platform

Identity-verification microservices powering customer onboarding for a regulated financial environment.

OCR validation → identity matching → risk categorization → approval
Resilient provider integrations with circuit breakers
Event streaming to RabbitMQ for real-time risk monitoring

Java
Spring Boot
RabbitMQ
PostgreSQL
Flyway

IBS Software · Air Cargo

iCargo — Quality Audit

Quality Audit module of the iCargo microservices suite, used by airlines and ground-handling agents to validate Air Waybill billing.

Validates AWB billing records including taxation and charges
Discrepancy logic that automatically flags or clears records as billed
Kafka streaming for async communication between distributed systems

Spring Boot
Apache Kafka
Microservices
SQL

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Education

Where it started.

University of Calicut · Kerala, India

B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

2013—2017

Contact

Let's build something solid.

Have a backend or microservices challenge in mind? Drop me a line.

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