Software Engineer Continuous Improvement

Yashwanth K

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Software Engineer

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Around 4 years of experience in software engineering, focusing on the implementation, testability, automation, robustness, and performance of production software, aligning with software development lifecycle best practices.

Proficient in designing, developing, and testing software, working closely with technical analysts and engineers to deliver key product improvements and achieve customer satisfaction in an Agile way.

Experienced in back-end development, database integrations, network and hosting management, and back-end server management, ensuring continuous improvement and end-to-end ownership of daily activities.

Developed and maintained containerized applications, focusing on the implementation of testability and automation to improve application availability and fault tolerance, ensuring robust production software.

Experienced in integrating machine learning and LLM technologies to drive intelligent applications, contributing to the creation and review of designs for production software, ensuring customer-centric products.

Built and managed CI/CD pipelines, streamlining testing, integration, and automated deployments to reduce cycle time and increase productivity, focusing on continuous improvement and Agile methodologies.

Implemented fine-grained access control and secure resource sharing, ensuring compliance and governance, while contributing to the development and testing tasks for production software.

Designed and delivered serverless architectures, significantly reducing infrastructure overhead and accelerating time-to-market for microservice applications, ensuring customer satisfaction and product improvements.

Leveraged data processing and analysis to deliver actionable insights to stakeholders in near real-time, focusing on the implementation of testability and automation for production software.

Integrated machine learning models for predictive analytics, enhancing decision-making capabilities across business and operational domains, contributing to the design and review of production software.

Monitored application performance and system health to proactively detect anomalies and resolve incidents efficiently, ensuring the robustness and performance of production software and customer satisfaction.

Applied cost optimization strategies through resource monitoring and budget alerts to ensure infrastructure efficiency and prevent budget overruns, focusing on continuous improvement and Agile methodologies.

Deep understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), agile frameworks like Scrum, and DevOps practices including infrastructure as code (IaC) and continuous feedback loops for production software.

Skilled in building RESTful APIs, managing service orchestration, and designing microservices that support scalable, fault-tolerant enterprise systems, ensuring customer-centric products and continuous improvement.

Experience in building responsive front-end applications using frameworks such as Angular and React, ensuring smooth user interfaces and intuitive client-side interactions, focusing on customer satisfaction.

Strong interpersonal and team collaboration skills, with a track record of effectively communicating across departments to align on technical goals and deliver project milestones on schedule, ensuring Agile delivery.

Committed to continuous learning, embracing emerging technologies, and applying innovation-driven thinking to solve complex engineering problems and enhance solution delivery, focusing on production software.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages - Python, Java, JavaScript, SQL

Frameworks - Angular, React, Node.js

Cloud Platforms - Google Cloud Platform, AWS

Databases - MySQL, PostgreSQL, BigQuery

DevOps Tools - Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Jenkins, Cloud Build

Tools - VS Code, Postman, JIRA, Confluence

Others - Open API

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Blue Cross Blue Shield February 2025 – June 2025

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Contributed to the creation of designs for production software, focusing on implementation, testability, automation, robustness, and performance, working closely with technical analysts and engineers. Ensured continuous improvement by gathering technical market insights.

Developed and tested software, ensuring adherence to coding standards and best practices, while focusing on front-end development using JavaScript and back-end development with Python. Actively participated in Agile ceremonies.

Authored comprehensive unit tests using PyTest, improving code coverage and application reliability, while assisting in peer code reviews for quality assurance and ensuring customer satisfaction through meticulous testing.

Gained practical experience with Google Cloud Platform services like BigQuery and Cloud Functions to support data analytics and backend service workflows, contributing to the development of customer-centric products.

Participated in daily Agile ceremonies, including stand-ups and sprint planning, effectively communicating progress and blockers within a cross-functional development team, ensuring end-to-end ownership of daily activities.

Created detailed technical specifications and user documentation to guide both internal developers and non-technical stakeholders through application features, usage, and deployment processes, focusing on user experience.

Supported application deployment activities, including build verification and smoke testing, as part of the DevOps team during sprint-end release cycles, contributing to network and hosting management tasks.

Actively engaged in performance discussions, offering insights and proposals to improve application responsiveness and reduce latency across front-end and back-end components, focusing on continuous improvement.

Utilized BigQuery and Google Data Studio for performing large-scale healthcare data analysis, identifying trends, and contributing insights for internal reporting and decision-making, ensuring customer satisfaction.

Assisted in API development and integration by writing RESTful endpoints, consuming external services, and handling authentication through OAuth 2.0 protocols, contributing to the SWIFT platform ecosystem.

Westlisoft Technologies Pvt Ltd August 2019 – November 2022

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed scalable web applications and microservices using Java and Spring Boot, implementing clean architecture principles and supporting modular deployments across cloud-native environments, focusing on solution design.

Built and integrated RESTful APIs with Angular-based front-end interfaces, enhancing user experience and reducing response latency through efficient client-server communication and optimized data retrieval, ensuring customer satisfaction.

Led the migration of monolithic systems to microservices architecture using Docker and Kubernetes, boosting maintainability, resilience, and scalability across cloud platforms including AWS and Google Cloud Platform.

Engineered CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Git, and Docker, automating deployments and reducing release cycle durations by maintaining consistent, test-driven build workflows and robust version control practices, ensuring testability.

Collaborated with cross-functional agile teams to define sprint goals, translate business requirements into technical specifications, and deliver incremental product features within scope and timelines, focusing on continuous improvement.

Implemented unit and integration testing using JUnit and Mockito, increasing test coverage and proactively reducing bugs before production through continuous testing and test automation, ensuring robustness.

Tuned SQL queries for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, significantly improving performance of transactional systems and optimizing indexing strategies for high-throughput applications, focusing on back-end server management.

Developed real-time data ingestion and processing systems using Apache Kafka, ensuring data availability and consistency across event-driven microservices and distributed environments, contributing to platform engineering.

Integrated monitoring solutions using ELK stack and Google Cloud Monitoring, enabling observability, error tracking, and proactive incident response across development and production environments, ensuring automation.

Ensured secure software development practices by integrating security checks into CI/CD, conducting code scans, and addressing vulnerabilities using tools like SonarQube and OWASP guidelines, focusing on performance.

Certifications:

Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate

Educational Details:

Master's Degree in Data Science - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology - CVR College of Engineering

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