Shashwitha Reddy

About

Full-stack engineer with healthcare domain experience (UnitedHealthcare) delivering real-time claims/eligibility dashboards using Spring Boot microservices and React/TypeScript, with strong AWS/Kubernetes DevOps. Demonstrated measurable impact through performance tuning (33% faster retrieval; 45% faster responses during a 60% traffic spike) and HIPAA-aligned security practices. Also built production FastAPI services for high-volume financial transactions with strong testing and observability (95%+ coverage; Prometheus/Grafana).

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Shipped real-time healthcare claims tracking dashboard end-to-end (Spring Boot microservices + React)
• Performance optimization: PostgreSQL indexing/partitioning improved retrieval speed by 33%
• Improved user engagement by 28% via real-time dashboard updates (WebSocket)
• Event-driven microservices with Kafka to reduce latency and prevent data mismatches at high volume
• Production security for PHI: TLS/SSL in transit, AES-256 at rest, RBAC, audit logging; HIPAA-aligned controls
• Built and operated AWS production environments with CI/CD (Jenkins/GitLab CI), Docker/Kubernetes, blue-green deployments
• Handled peak-load incident (60% traffic spike) using autoscaling, caching, connection pooling, Nginx tuning, circuit breakers; reduced response time by 45% with zero downtime
• Designed FastAPI backend with JWT/RBAC, versioned APIs, standardized error handling middleware, clean architecture; 95%+ test coverage and 30K+ daily transactions