Java • Cloud • AI • Performance Engineering

Muvhulawa Muthula Solutions Development Engineer

I build high-performance Java backend systems, cloud-native APIs, and AI-powered services — combining RAG pipelines, JVM performance tuning, and production-minded engineering across Java 8, 17, and 21.

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Java 21 Modern backend engineering
JVM Memory and performance
Azure Cloud resume in progress 
class Engineer {
  String name = "Muvhulawa Muthula";
  String stack = "Java 8, Java 17, Java 21";
  String focus = "Backend Performance, RAG, Cloud and AI";

  void build() {
    designCleanAPIs();
    optimizeJVMSystems();
    shipCloudReadyProjects();
  }
}

About Me

Backend engineer building serious systems.

I am a Solutions Development Engineer focused on Java backend engineering, performance tuning, concurrency, JVM diagnostics, REST APIs, and cloud-ready systems. My projects are designed to demonstrate real engineering depth: scalable APIs, parallel processing, reactive pipelines, memory analysis, and clean backend architecture.

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Featured Projects

Real Java projects beyond basic CRUD.

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Order Matching Engine

A trading-style matching engine built with Java, focused on order books, price-time priority, concurrency, and performance-minded architecture.

Java Concurrency Performance Matching Engine
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JVM Diagnostics

Memory Leak Detector

A JVM-focused project for investigating memory behavior, leak patterns, heap pressure, profiling, and Java application diagnostics.

Java JVM Heap Memory Analysis
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Parallel Processing

Parallel File Word Counter

A Fork/Join based file processing project that splits large text workloads into parallel tasks for faster counting and analysis.

Java Fork/Join Parallelism Files
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Reactive Systems

Reactive Data Pipeline

A Java reactive pipeline exploring non-blocking processing, backpressure, event-driven design, and scalable stream-style data handling.

Java 21 Reactive Backpressure Pipeline
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Social Impact API

DailySpane Jakarta API

Backend API for DailySpane, a South African employment-focused platform connecting people to daily odd jobs through a secure API-first design.

Java Jakarta EE REST API Security
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Technical Stack

Tools I use to build production-minded systems.

Java 21 Spring Boot Jakarta EE REST APIs Virtual Threads Fork/Join Reactive Programming Docker Azure Terraform GitHub Actions MySQL Oracle Vector Search OpenAI APIs JVM Memory Analysis

Let’s Build

Backend systems. Cloud projects. Performance engineering.

mutulamuvhulawa@gmail.com GitHub South Africa