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Shiva Ganduru

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in microservices, Kafka, and cloud-native AWS platforms

ExperianWestern Illinois UniversityUSA5 Years ExperienceSenior LevelWorks On-Site

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LLM/agent engineer with production experience in the insurance claims domain, integrating OpenAI + LangChain into a claims platform to automate unstructured document extraction/classification and cut manual effort by 35%. Built reliable, fault-tolerant AWS/Kubernetes microservices with CloudWatch monitoring plus circuit breakers/retries/fallbacks, and implemented multi-step Spring Boot orchestration with schema validation, confidence gating, and human-in-the-loop handling for low-confidence cases.

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Key Strengths

  • Shipped LLM agent to production for insurance claims document extraction/classification
  • Delivered 35% reduction in manual effort via automation
  • Designed for production reliability (99% uptime) using fault-tolerant microservices on AWS/Kubernetes
  • Implemented resilience patterns (retries, circuit breakers, fallbacks) to handle failure modes
  • Built multi-step agent workflows with function calling, structured outputs, and Spring Boot orchestration/state for traceability and recovery
  • Improved output consistency by refining prompts and enforcing strict JSON schema validation with fallback logic
  • Handled messy ERP/operational data with validation/normalization layers and idempotency to prevent bad actions

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Experience

Senior Software EngineerExperian · Oct 2023 – Present
Software EngineerJohnson & Johnson · Feb 2023 – Oct 2023
Java DeveloperInspire Brands · Sep 2020 – Nov 2022

Education

Western Illinois Universitymaster, Computer Science (2024)

Languages

English

Certifications

AWS Certified Developer – AssociateAWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateOracle Certified Professional: Java SE 11

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Shiva GanduruSenior Backend Software Engineer specializing in microservices, Kafka, and cloud-native AWS platforms