THOKA RAMA KRISHNA

Objective

To work in a dynamic organization that encourages innovation, leadership and continuous learning. With over 11 years of experience in building scalable Ruby on Rails platforms, I aim to drive engineering excellence and contribute to impactful product development.

Profile Summary

• 11+ years of hands-on experience designing, developing, and scaling applications using Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
• Strong expertise in building high-performance, secure, and maintainable backend systems with deep understanding of MVC architecture and Rails internals.
• Proficient in leveraging AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, ALB, Auto Scaling) to architect resilient and scalable cloud environments.
• Skilled in front-end development with jQuery, vanilla JavaScript, and modern UI best practices.
• Experienced in designing APIs, optimizing SQL queries, and working with PostgreSQL and relational data models.
• Strong problem-solving skills with emphasis on automation, performance optimization, and clean, maintainable code.
• Hands-on experience integrating third-party services including Stripe, messaging platforms, logging tools, and cloud-based monitoring systems.
• Proficient with Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native deployment practices.
• Adept at leading engineering initiatives, mentoring developers, and driving end-to-end project delivery.
• AWS Solutions Architect – Associate and GitHub Copilot Certified.

Professional Experience

Education

B.Tech – Electronics & Communication Engineering
Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering (LBRCE), JNTU Kakinada
Aggregate: 67.78%

Technical Skills

• Languages: Ruby, Java, C#, Python
• Frameworks: Ruby on Rails
• Web: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery
• Cloud: AWS, OpenShift
• OS: Ubuntu 22.04, macOS
• Certifications:AWS Solutions Architect – Associate, GitHub Copilot Certified

Project Experience

Stratus (Intranet Application)

• Designed and automated end-to-end infrastructure orchestration and application deployment workflows.
• Managed AWS and OpenShift components including Security Groups, ALBs, Auto Scaling Groups, DNS records, and Horizontal Pod Autoscalers.
• Coordinated developer onboarding, deployment requests, and troubleshooting through dedicated Slack support channels.
• Improved deployment reliability by refining agent-based infrastructure management and monitoring processes.
• Collaborated closely with product managers to plan features, optimize cloud resource usage, and ensure seamless delivery.

RPX (Intranet Application)

• Developed and maintained internal Rails applications supporting patent research and analysis workflows.
• Implemented automated OCR and PDF-processing pipelines using Python to extract and structure legal data.
• Built efficient deployment automation using Capistrano, systemd service files, and optimized NGINX configurations.
• Led a major Rails upgrade effort from v4 to v6, ensuring backward compatibility and performance stability.
• Improved application reliability through proactive monitoring, performance tuning, and integration with tools like New Relic and Code Climate.

Simply Wine

• Led feature development across the e-commerce platform using Ruby on Rails.
• Implemented product catalog enhancements, advanced filtering, and improved checkout flows.
• Developed order management workflows, payment gateway integrations, and inventory sync features.
• Provided end-to-end support covering development, staging validation, and production stability.

Data Driven Safety Scrapers (USA)

• Built 100+ automated scrapers using Ruby + Regex + XPath.
• Parsed US court records into structured databases.

Legal Plex (http://legalplex.com)

• Developed attorney-side modules with MVC structure.
• Implemented scraping, notifications and rake tasks.