Naveen Kumar Gontla

Apple's hardware provisioning system

• Led backend development using Spring Boot to build and scale Apple's hardware and user provisioning systems.
• Implemented login flow by extracting user details and validating user to enforce role-based access before API execution
• Designed and maintained REST APIs to manage and track millions of assets across Apple’s service centers.
• Improved API performance by reducing response time, enhancing scalability and reliability through continuous optimization.
• Built efficient data access layers using JPA, PostGreSQL & Couchbase optimizing queries and entity mappings to reduce overhead and improve system efficiency by 20%.
• Built centralized exception handling using custom exceptions and modular handlers, and integrated Log4j2 for comprehensive logging of API requests, responses, and system events.

Apple's Dormancy :

• Led the implementation of a Java-based solution to identify and securely purge dormant Apple ID accounts, while allowing users to re-engage.
• Ensured seamless integration of Java-based applications with databases, APIs, and other systems
• Defined clear dormancy criteria based on account inactivity and ensured compliant deletion of accounts and data per privacy and legal requirements.
• Created and updated email templates to notify users about their account deletion
• Reduced privacy and security risks by aligning data removal with Apple’s Data Minimization principles and monitoring accounts with outdated security settings.
• Developed steady-state deletion workflows to support high transaction throughput and managed dormancy status updates via IdMS and related services, impacting hundreds of millions of users.
• Delivered IdMS feature enhancements and pre-launch tools, including APIs to handle dormancy state changes and account status updates.

DGS portal

• Developed scalable backend services for the e-commerce application using Java 8 and Spring Boot.
• Designed and implemented RESTful APIs to handle product catalog, user management, and order processing.
• Created efficient SQL database schemas and optimized queries for fast data retrieval and transaction management.
• Built unit and integration tests to ensure code quality and system reliability.
• Collaborated with front-end teams to support seamless API integration and deliver responsive features.