Healthcare data pipelines, SQL, quality monitoring, and operational reporting
Data Engineer / Data Analyst
The Cigna Group
Aug 2024 – Present
United States
Transform legacy claims and eligibility data into FHIR R4 / HL7 resources for member-facing applications — serialization, bundle pagination, and versioned profiles across large healthcare datasets
Design and operate AWS data infrastructure for claims processing — Lambda, DynamoDB access patterns, SQS dead-letter queues, RDS, and S3 — using Terraform and CloudFormation across environments
Build PHI/PII protection on data flowing through API Gateway so sensitive fields (SSNs, diagnosis codes, insurance IDs) are redacted before they leave the pipeline, aligned with HIPAA minimum-necessary practice
Monitor data quality and production health in Splunk — diagnosed connection-pool exhaustion and DynamoDB hot partitions, cutting member login 5xx from 3.2% to under 0.5%
Maintain operational reports and business rules (Pega decision tables) for claim routing so analysts and operations teams can update logic independently
Partner with product, compliance, and engineering on data change reviews in a distributed SAFe Agile team
Data Engineer Co-op
Anguliyam AI
Oct 2023 – May 2024
Atlanta, GA · Remote
Built Python document ingestion pipelines for enterprise RAG — chunking, metadata extraction, and embedding generation over large unstructured corpora
Developed FastAPI services for multi-agent workflows: tool contracts, routing, and structured JSON between model calls and downstream actions
Integrated vector search so users could retrieve relevant context; contributed to prompt evaluation that improved retrieval quality
Documented pipeline configurations so client onboarding and deployments were reproducible
Graduate Research Assistant
Florida Institute of Technology
Dec 2022 – Aug 2023
Melbourne, FL
Built and maintained Python data processing pipelines for faculty research — cleaning, transforming, and analyzing datasets from multiple sources
Supported experimental design and cloud-based prototypes; delivered summaries faculty could use in ongoing work
Software Engineering Intern
Zoho Corporation
Aug 2021 – May 2022
India
Designed a reusable JDBC data access layer across 14 database entities, standardizing CRUD and cutting per-feature development time
Optimized MySQL query performance from ~4.8s to under 200ms using indexed JOINs; partnered with product teams on data integrity issues
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