My Work Experience
During my work experience, I had the opportunity to work in various roles and projects that enriched my skillset and knowledge in the field of computer science. After completing two semesters of my MCS program at Rice, I spent a summer at Smith & Associates, where I contributed to both frontend and backend development tasks. Prior to coming to the US, I worked for around 30 months as a Software Engineer at UnitedHealth Group, where I honed my expertise in Distributed Systems on the backend, while also gaining valuable experience in frontend development and DevOps for seamless deployments. Additionally, during my undergraduate studies, I had a rewarding three-month summer internship at Idemia, where I was involved in both frontend and backend projects. These experiences have been instrumental in shaping my career and fueling my passion for technology.
Work
smith
Smith & Associates
Software Engineer Intern
May 2023 - Present
Skills: Angular, PHP Laravel, Artisan Tinker, Ngnix, AWS EC2
  • Led the development of Skills Development Platform. Dockerized the services and deployed on Amazon EC2 with Nginx, resulting in a significant reduction of over 1000 idle hours per week potentially saving $300,000 monthly .
  • Effectively decoupled a PHP Laravel application and created event-based REST endpoints. Used PHP Artisan Tinker to write and execute tests, increasing the test coverage from ~35% to 92%.
  • Successfully transitioned services to AWS Fargate, resulting in ~15% reduction in AWS costs.
  • Performed data wrangling and analysis on Google Analytics data to uncover correlations between user behavior, courses, departments, and optimal engagement timings.
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UnitedHealth Group
Software Engineer
Jul 2019 - May 2022
Skills: SpringBoot, Node.js, MongoDB, MySQL, React, Angular, Kafka, AWS EC2, EKS and Athena, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Led the development of Coordination of Benefits, a message-based microservice platform with Kafka as a message broker to enable asynchronous communication among the processing, validation and notification services, reducing multi-benefit claim processing time by 45%.
  • Developed Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, dockerized the microservices, and pushed the containers on AWS EC2. Used Istio mesh and Kubernetes for container orchestration with AWS EKS; reaching a ~25% reduction in downtime.
  • Wrote AWS Athena queries to catch regressions and derive insights from the benchmark runs and wrote Python scripts to create JIRA work items for the Claim Analysis team to investigate aiding the team in analyzing inefficiencies.
  • Wrote microservices using gRPC framework and protobuf data modeling for communicating with Health Care Platform UI reducing the API response time by ~2 seconds.
  • Architected and implemented multiple features through stateful services for the Claims Processing Application, using MySQL, Hibernate ORM, and Redis for the caching layer.
  • Led the complete revamp of the obsolete Validation process by converting Perl Scripts to Python, significantly reducing the downtime and increasing the validation speed by over 30 seconds.
  • Researched on, built POCs, and integrated framework-agnostic pages using Angular Elements, into an existing Spring Boot project.
idemia
Idemia
Software Engineer Intern
May 2018 - Aug 2018
Skills: React, Node.js
  • Designed a telemetry web app with a dashboard to monitor consumer traffic, increasing traffic visibility.
  • Reconfigured the Payment Gateway to accommodate crypto payments; achieved a 15% increase in web traffic.
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