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Abhishek Arugonda

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

CignaUniversity of KansasAustin, TX4 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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Backend/platform engineer with experience across Cigna, Cognizant, and a university environment, focused on reliability, distributed systems, and regulated-domain workflows. Stands out for combining Kubernetes/Kafka/AWS infrastructure expertise with a production RAG-based healthcare compliance assistant that cut manual reporting work from 30-45 minutes to under 2 minutes while maintaining strong uptime and data-quality controls.

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Key Strengths

  • End-to-end deployment ownership across discovery to post-launch stabilization
  • Production reliability engineering for microservices and Kubernetes platforms
  • Cross-functional stakeholder management across engineering, operations, compliance, and business teams
  • Performance optimization with 20% response-time improvement via caching and connection pooling
  • High-availability systems in regulated environments with 99.9% uptime at Cigna and 99.95% at Cognizant
  • Kafka pipeline resilience and workflow reliability improvement of 30%
  • Built a production RAG-based internal assistant on AWS for healthcare compliance workflows
  • Reduced compliance data retrieval/report preparation from 30-45 minutes to under 2 minutes
  • Improved operational efficiency by roughly 70% through LLM agentic automation
  • Strong incident debugging for non-deterministic pipeline failures using CloudWatch, consumer lag analysis, DLQs, and schema fixes
  • Robust messy-input handling with validation, normalization, fallback rules, retries, and manual-review queues
  • Experience spanning healthcare, fintech/payments, and academic platform environments

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Experience

Software DeveloperCigna · Aug 2025 – Present
Software DeveloperThe University of Kansas · Dec 2023 – May 2025
Software EngineerCognizant · Jul 2021 – Jul 2023

Education

University of Kansasmaster, Computer and Information Sciences (2025)
Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technologybachelor, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering (2021)

Languages

English

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions ArchitectClaude Code in ActionGenerative AI FundamentalsDocker for DevelopersLinux Command Line

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Abhishek ArugondaMid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices