Richa R
Associate Advisor
Hyderabad
Summary
Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience developing and architecting enterprise-scale web applications and backend systems. Currently focused on designing cloud-native micro-services, AWS Lambda-based serverless architectures, and shared libraries using Node.js and TypeScript. Regularly lead architectural design decisions around scalability, performance, reliability, and data modeling. Extensive experience working with both SQL and NoSQL databases including DynamoDB, Couchbase, Cassandra, and PostgreSQL.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Associate Advisor, Software Engineering
Evernorth Health Services
03.2025 - Current
- Designed and developed consent management product apis for Cigna and Express scripts portals which handle 20m consents.
- Developed multiple lambdas to ingest user consents at the time of registration and publish fhir-format consents to Kafka.
- Designed strategy to use DynamoDB to map Unique Identifier to PHI data such as email, phone and store the mapping.
- Used Terraform for provisioning AWS resources and policies like Secrets, S3 buckets, DynamoDB Tables.
Senior Software Engineer, Solution Engineering
Western Union
09.2019 - 10.2023
- Worked on real time transaction monitoring case management system.
- Designed and developed micro-services to manage user cases (Node, Docker, Couchbase).
- Designed spark applications to ingest transaction data and generate reports (Spark, AWS EMR, Cassandra).
- Implemented File upload and download using Multer node package.
- Implemented Symmetric Encryption and Decryption of PII data, Logging (Winston) and Tracing (OpenTelemetry).
- Deployed services on AWS API Gateway and added authorization through Lambda (Node, CFTs).
Software Developer
Tieto
02.2018 - 08.2019
- Worked on Teamwork application developed for admins to manage Work shifts, Memberships, Teams and Users.
- Developed UI and backend server (Angular 5, HighCharts, Java).
- Designed Drag - Drop UI Components using ng-drag-drop.
Software Developer
Infogain
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Worked on Portfolio Management System dashboard to manage Resources, Risks and Finances.
- Designed dashboard to view the statistics. (AngularJS, Bootstrap, Chart.js)
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
Guru Nanak Dev University
01.2016
Skills
NodeJS
NestJS
Javascript
Typescript
AWS API Gateway
Couchbase
Cassandra
Jenkins
Agile Methodologies
GIT
Docker
Angular
JIRA
Cassandra
Redis
Couchbase
Microservices
Springboot
Typescript
Visual Studio Code
Bootstrap
Scala
EMR
Couchbase
Certification
EduRamp Java training on behalf of Western Union: Java (2020)
Accomplishments
- InnoHack runner-ups for developing Real-Time Customer Intent Prediction Agentic AI solution - Evernorth’25
- Won Pharos Profile Visualization Dashboard Hackathon – Western Union’21
- Won Quarterly Flair Award for best team performer – Western Union’20
- Runner up in UI Hackathon for best design for Case Management – Western Union’20
- Won Spot Award for Claimant Dashboard – Tieto’19
Timeline
Associate Advisor, Software Engineering
Evernorth Health Services
03.2025 - Current
Senior Software Engineer, Solution Engineering
Western Union
09.2019 - 10.2023
Software Developer
Tieto
02.2018 - 08.2019
Software Developer
Infogain
01.2016 - 01.2018
B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
Guru Nanak Dev University