Application Principal/Staff Engineer (16+ Years)

Arpita Patel

New Jersey 732-***-****

**********@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/arpita-patel41/ Application Principal/Staff Engineer

Experienced Software Engineer and Technical Leader with 16+ years of experience delivering scalable, enterprise solutions across frontend, backend, and cloud platforms in Insurance, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Healthcare, and Telecom. Trusted in system design and platform modernization, while remaining hands-on with development, CI/CD automation, and cross-team collaboration. I apply a thoughtful build-vs-adopt approach, thrive in Agile environments, and drive legacy modernization and end-to-end system delivery. SUMMARY OF EXPERTISE:

• Architecture & Cloud Strategy: Leads the design and evolution of large-scale cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure, including AKS, ESB, ADF, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, APIM, and Blob Storage. Expert in Microservices, SOA, and Event-Driven architectures across hybrid and cloud-native environments.

• Technical Leadership & Standards: Drives API-First architecture, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and engineering best practices. Provides architectural guidance, design reviews, and technical direction across teams.

• Platform & Delivery Excellence: Hands-on experience with CI/CD automation using Azure DevOps to improve reliability and security. Used JIRA for bug tracking. Git is used as a version control tool. A good team player with strong independent abilities, adapts to new skills, an optimistic personality that can both work well with others and independently.

• Advanced Development Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with .NET Core, C#, Python, Angular, Node.js, SQL, and T-SQL, building highly secure, scalable RESTful APIs.

• Data, Messaging & AI Enablement: Strong background in distributed messaging (Kafka, Service Bus), enterprise databases (SQL Server, Snowflake, Synapse), and integrating fine-tuned BERT and Llama 3.1 models using PyTorch and LangChain for production NLP systems.

SKILLS

Application Architecture Software Development Application Programming Interfaces (API) Angular React ASP.NET

PostgreSQL MVC SQL server Node.js Rest API Microservice JSON C# Python JIRA GitHub Copilot Azure Data Factory Kubernetes Kafka AWS Logic App Claude Airflow Azure Function Oracle jQuery SSIS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Everest Re., Everest Insurance, Warren, NJ June 2019 - Present Senior Lead Engineer - Full Stack Engineer

Projects: HRDB, IFRS (International Financial Reporting Service)

• Led the design and development of a modern, microservices-based Data Quality platform, leveraging Azure Data Factory, Python, Apache Kafka, and Azure SQL to improve enterprise-wide data integrity.

• Managed and mentored a blended onshore/offshore team, guiding development in C#, .NET, and Angular to ensure high-quality, consistent delivery.

• Designed and implemented end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Data Factory (ADF) to ingest, transform, and load data from multiple enterprise systems

• Implemented CI/CD pipelines and contributed to their full configuration, streamlining the deployment process and improving release frequency.

• Leveraged AI coding assistants such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot to accelerate development, reducing coding time.

• Implemented Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using embeddings and vector databases such as Pinecone.

• Monitored and improved model performance using feedback loops and telemetry.

• Environment: ASP.NET Core 8, C#, REST API, GraphQL API, Angular, Node.js, SQL Server, JSON, JIRA, Agile scrum, GitHub, Databricks, ADF, React, Kubernetes, Kafka, Logic App, Python, Airflow, Azure Functions QuintilesIMS, Warren, NJ October 2015 - June 2019

Sr. Software Engineer

Projects: WSTT, ER Dashboard

• Led the design, development, testing, and documentation of system enhancements, ensuring quality and maintainability.

• Created Web APIs using Angular, ASP.NET Web API to allow new projects to leverage reusable data.

• Constructed and Implemented GUI for applications and modules, using Angular.

• Performed troubleshooting of client CRM issues and maintained documentation of all reported issues.

• Environment: ASP.NET 4.5, MVC, C#, WCF, XML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, jQuery, WEB API, Angular, Oracle 11g, T- SQL, SQL Server 2008, SSRS, SSIS, LINQ, IIS, TFS, Visual Studio 2017. Verizon Wireless, Warren, NJ November 2012 - August 2015 Software Engineer

• Managed lifecycle for new releases. The tasks included defining low level requirements, creating architecture, troubleshooting implementation problems.

• Built and maintained RESTful APIs using ASP.NET Web API and C#, supporting scalable integrations.

• Designed and executed UI applications with Telerik controls and jQuery, creating a Defect and Test Dashboard to monitor release-over-release project metrics.

• Performed performance tuning on complex legacy stored procedures, enhancing application efficiency and responsiveness.

Immucor Inc, Warren, NJ May 2012 - October 2012

.Net Developer

• Worked on front end ASP.NET 3.5 webpage and developed layers to interact with external system using Web services.

• Translated business requirements into functional and technical design documents through user collaboration.

• Built ASP.NET Web Forms applications using C#, AJAX, and implemented business logic and data access layers following MVC architecture.

• Created Triggers, User Defined Functions, and User Defined Data Types, and views to implement and maintain data integrity using T-SQL.

• Technologies: ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, SSRS, SharePoint, Visual Studio. MetLife Investment, Somerset NJ November 2010 - April 2012

.Net Developer

Project: Income Asset Projections & IDEAS Reporting Platforms.

• Engaged in requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and implementation of the Application.

• Executed on C# module which invokes the report from the server and gets the result document by using web service method which uploads to the SharePoint portal.

• Created and delivered advanced SSRS reports, enabling data-driven and improved reporting efficiency.

• Built SSIS Packages to transfer data between servers and load data into database.

• Technologies: ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, SharePoint, Visual Studio. EDUCATION

Master's Degree Computer Applications, S.P. University, India Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, S.P. University, India Certifications: Azure Developer (AZ-204) & Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)

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