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Lakshmi Nagaraju

Lead Software Engineer
Scottsdale,AZ

Summary

Results-driven Lead Software Engineer at Optum with strong skills in Java and J2EE development. Directed cloud migration projects that resulted in $175M in benefits. Fostered enhanced system functionality and team collaboration by implementing agile methodologies. Dedicated to harnessing technology, including AI, to meet organizational objectives and elevate user experiences.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Software Engineer

Optum
Phoenix, AZ
11.2021 - Current
  • Directed migration of Policy Information Management System to cloud, generating $175M in benefits over three to five years.
  • Led conversion of Oracle scripts to PostgreSQL, ensuring smooth transition during migration.
  • Implemented enterprise Prior Authorization API for workflows including Claims, Provider Portal, and Chat.
  • Resolved complex technical issues during software development, adhering to project timelines.
  • Coordinated integration of software applications into existing systems for enhanced functionality.
  • Participated in design reviews and sprint planning to maintain project alignment.
  • Identified process improvement opportunities within development, boosting efficiency.

Sr. Software Engineer/Development Lead

UnitedHealth Group
Phoenix, AZ
01.2018 - 10.2021
  • Provide development and technical leadership for various Micro services in our stack
  • Led two teams including a task force to improve Net Promoter Score for a external health care provider facing Prior Authorization and Notification application and an EMR Point of Care Assist Prior Authorization team
  • Designed and implemented a high performance message queue based pipeline using Kafka streaming. This stream was used by down stream logging and reporting applications, ensuring a single source of truth for all down steam applications and ensuring independent horizontal scalability for all down stream applications
  • Designed and implemented a Prometheus based Monitoring System with alert manager. With a micro services based architecture, our application needed to be managed and monitored, which led to piloting this solution in our application and also implement for our production
  • Implemented Sprint Boot Caching to improve the performance of our Application
  • Designed a Kafka service to save health service case data to another system
  • Lead and own agile grooming and refinement sessions, application design, development and best practices for Web Services
  • Collaborate closely with other technical experts, architects, product managers, UI/UX designers, business stakeholders and teams integrating with our services as consumers

Sr. Software Engineer

UnitedHealth Group
Phoenix, AZ
01.2015 - 01.2017
  • Project - PAAN (Prior Authorization and Notification Java Web Application for submitting health service cases for healthcare management)
  • Application development including UI, SOAP and REST Web Service clients (primary)
  • Collaborated closely with other technical experts, product managers, UI/UX designers and business stakeholders (primary)
  • Developed creative solutions to use existing Clinical User Interface UI framework with a new look and feel for the PAAN (Prior Authorization and Notification) UI

Application Developer/Sr. Application Developer

UnitedHealth Group
Phoenix, AZ
01.2008 - 01.2014
  • Application development including UI and Web Service clients (SOAP) in Microsoft .NET application

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Instrumentation Technology

Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering
Mysore, India

Skills

  • Leadership and self-motivation
  • Quick learner
  • Decision making
  • Java Spring Boot
  • Web services integration
  • Apache Kafka
  • Python programming
  • JSON and XML processing
  • SQL proficiency
  • Prometheus monitoring tools
  • Object-oriented design principles
  • Agile methodologies
  • GraphQL integration
  • Camunda workflow automation

Certification

  • HarvardX: CS50's Introduction to Programming with Python
  • IBM: Mastering Generative AI: LLM Architecture & Data Preparation

Timeline

Lead Software Engineer

Optum
11.2021 - Current

Sr. Software Engineer/Development Lead

UnitedHealth Group
01.2018 - 10.2021

Sr. Software Engineer

UnitedHealth Group
01.2015 - 01.2017

Application Developer/Sr. Application Developer

UnitedHealth Group
01.2008 - 01.2014

Bachelor of Engineering - Instrumentation Technology

Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering

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