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LakshmiA Makena
Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices
Seattle, WASoftware Engineer4 years experienceMid-LevelHealthcare ITFinTechPayments
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Backend engineer with experience in both healthcare (Siemens) and payments (Bitwise), focused on scaling Python APIs and modernizing architectures. Has led monolith-to-microservices migrations and introduced Kafka async processing, Redis caching, and ELK observability, citing ~40% faster issue resolution and improved reliability via idempotency and strong security controls (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, RLS).
Experience
Software EngineerSiemens
Software EngineerBitwise
Education
University of North Texasmaster, Information Science
Visakha Institute of Engineering & Technologybachelor, Electronics & Communications
Key Strengths
- Scaled healthcare backend by restructuring services and improving API boundaries (FastAPI/Flask)
- Introduced Kafka-based async processing with topic design, retries, and error handling to handle spikes and improve reliability
- Performance optimization via PostgreSQL query tuning and Redis caching
- Reduced incident/issue resolution time ~40% using ELK Stack centralized logging/monitoring
- Led monolith-to-microservices migration for payments with incremental rollout and high-concurrency stability (no downtime)
- Layered testing strategy (unit + integration) with coverage tracking and Jenkins CI/CD gating
- Implemented production authN/authZ with OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, and row-level security to enforce per-user data access
- Improved data robustness by adding idempotency checks to prevent duplicate ingestion records under network delays
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