Harshitha Srinivas

Associate I at Intel

Automated validation workflows using Python and Ansible; configured Linux (Ubuntu) OS images, drivers, and diagnostic tools across diverse platforms; executed pre-BAT and BAT validation on new server nodes, flashing BIOS, BMC and CPLD components to ensure 100% functional readiness and minimize post-deployment issues. Improved testing efficiency: 40% reduction in manual testing, 20% higher regression test coverage, and faster feedback loops for firmware validation; reduced environment prep time by 25%.

Software Engineer at Cognizant India

Developed scalable backend services for an enterprise insurance dashboard using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and MySQL, improving API performance by 30% and enhancing user experience for 50+ internal agents. Refactored legacy Java applications into modular Spring Boot microservices (controller-service-DAO) to reduce release risks and improve maintainability. Integrated Kafka to decouple microservices and enable asynchronous communication, enabling the system to handle 3x higher traffic with zero message loss. Spearheaded CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Maven, and Docker to streamline builds, containerization, and deployments, cutting release time by 50%. Implemented centralized exception handling and Spring Security in REST APIs, ensuring consistent error responses and secure role-based access, improving debugging efficiency and production reliability.

Junior Software Engineer at Cognizant India

Engineered modular, responsive UIs with React for 3 client-facing platforms, improving cross-browser compatibility and user task completion. Optimized React components using hooks and lazy loading to reduce frontend load time by 25% and enhance responsiveness. Integrated 15+ RESTful APIs with frontend modules and collaborated with backend teams to refine contracts and data handling, reducing API failures by 30%. Wrote and debugged unit tests for 50+ UI components and resolved integration issues during UAT and staging to ensure stable releases.

Founding Full Stack Developer - Freelance at Memba Healthcare Consulting Firm

Architected and deployed a production-grade medical intelligence platform, managing the full SDLC lifecycle from system design to release; automated compliance checks reducing manual review time by 70%. Implemented a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline using Supabase (pgvector) with sub-100ms vector retrieval latency for complex regulatory queries. Optimized a Python (FastAPI) backend to handle concurrent medical policy lookups, achieving end-to-end latency (retrieval + LLM inference) under 3 seconds. Integrated OpenAI API to ingest and analyze payer policy PDFs, converting unstructured regulatory text into actionable JSON compliance insights with 95% data extraction accuracy.

Associate Software Engineer at Intel

Automated log-analysis pipeline using Python and Large Language Models (LLMs) to parse unstructured BIOS/BMC logs, extracting insights on hardware detection and boot timing. Automated root-cause analysis for complex server boot failures, reducing report generation time from 20 minutes to 60 seconds. Built a Python-based deployment automation tool for a fleet of 60+ Linux servers, eliminating manual configuration drift and saving ~20 hours per week.

Software Engineer at Cognizant India

Migrated a critical loan disbursement module from a synchronous monolith to an event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka, decoupling services to ensure 99.9% system availability. Engineered CI/CD pipelines using Docker, integrating JUnit and Mockito test suites to cut release cycles by 50% while reducing post-deployment defects. Optimized a high-volume MySQL API by implementing keyset pagination, reducing query execution time from 2.6s to 200ms. Developed backend services for a health insurance dashboard using Java Spring Boot and Hibernate, improving API throughput by 30% through efficient connection pooling and caching strategies.