Hi, I’m Sayali Mukund Gedam, a Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable backend systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures. I enjoy turning complex requirements into robust, secure solutions that scale with the business. I have a proven track record of improving performance, reducing operational costs, and delivering reliable APIs and data pipelines across financial services and healthcare domains. I’m proficient in Python, Node.js, AWS, CI/CD automation, and distributed systems, and I’m actively seeking opportunities in New Zealand to contribute to modern, innovative engineering teams.

Sayali Mukund Gedam

Hi, I’m Sayali Mukund Gedam, a Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable backend systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures. I enjoy turning complex requirements into robust, secure solutions that scale with the business. I have a proven track record of improving performance, reducing operational costs, and delivering reliable APIs and data pipelines across financial services and healthcare domains. I’m proficient in Python, Node.js, AWS, CI/CD automation, and distributed systems, and I’m actively seeking opportunities in New Zealand to contribute to modern, innovative engineering teams.

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Hi, I’m Sayali Mukund Gedam, a Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable backend systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures. I enjoy turning complex requirements into robust, secure solutions that scale with the business. I have a proven track record of improving performance, reducing operational costs, and delivering reliable APIs and data pipelines across financial services and healthcare domains.

I’m proficient in Python, Node.js, AWS, CI/CD automation, and distributed systems, and I’m actively seeking opportunities in New Zealand to contribute to modern, innovative engineering teams.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase & Co
July 1, 2024 - Present
Led the development of 12+ microservices in Python and Node.js to handle ~10M daily financial transactions across multiple units. Optimized Redis and PostgreSQL queries, reducing median API response time from 150ms to under 70ms. Automated CI/CD with GitHub Actions and custom shell scripts, cutting deployment time from ~3 hours to under 30 minutes with rollback across environments. Built real-time alerting and system health dashboards with Prometheus and Grafana, reducing incident response time by 40%. Implemented audit trail and access-control APIs for SOX compliance with 100% coverage on high-risk actions. Collaborated with security teams to review 15+ endpoints for encryption compliance, addressing issues during cybersecurity audits.
Software Engineer at UnitedHealth Group
July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024
Built modular backend services using FastAPI and PostgreSQL to support patient claims processing pipelines, increasing internal data throughput and reducing record delivery time by 60%. Migrated 6 critical services from on-prem monoliths to AWS Lambda and ECS-based microservices, reducing infrastructure costs by 25% and improving horizontal scalability during peak uploads. Automated deployments with GitLab CI, enabling daily rollouts and reducing human deployment errors by 70%. Implemented Pytest-based integration tests ensuring >90% service logic coverage and enforcing coverage in CI pipelines, reducing post-release issues by 35%. Authored OpenAPI (Swagger) documentation for 20+ APIs, accelerating onboarding of downstream teams by ~2 weeks per project. Implemented Celery + RabbitMQ for asynchronous data normalization, enabling near real-time updates for 2M monthly records. Ensured PHI compliance and HIPAA standards across endpoints with zero escalations.
Software Developer Associate at R-Financial
September 1, 2018 - August 31, 2021
Built internal risk reporting tools using Flask and PostgreSQL to automate spreadsheet workflows, reducing daily report generation time by 70% and eliminating repetitive manual work for three teams. Developed RESTful APIs to support a portfolio dashboard serving 5,000+ clients with indexing and rate-limiting for reliable data delivery. Implemented ETL jobs using Python and Bash, cutting daily batch runtimes from 2 hours to 45 minutes. Deployed apps with Docker on AWS EC2 with zero-downtime strategies, standardizing environments across three teams and preventing deployment failures. Optimized SQL queries and data cleanup scripts, reducing exception logs by over 1,000 per month. Added JWT-based authentication across Flask services, reducing unauthorized access attempts to under 1% monthly. Collaborated with QA to achieve 85% backend test coverage via Pytest and Postman, catching 15+ critical bugs pre-release.

Education

Master’s in Computer Science at New England College
September 1, 2021 - December 1, 2023
Bachelor’s Electronics Engineering at G H Raisoni College of Engineering
August 1, 2016 - May 1, 2020
Master's in Computer Science at New England College
September 1, 2021 - December 1, 2023
Bachelor's Electronics Engineering at G H Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur, MH
August 1, 2016 - May 1, 2020
Master's in Computer Science at New England College
September 1, 2021 - December 1, 2023
Bachelor's Electronics Engineering at G H Raisoni College of Engineering
August 1, 2016 - May 1, 2020

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Healthcare, Professional Services