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Claims SME – Hadoop/Spark and Oracle Research & Development
Cognizant Technology Solutions• November 2016 - Present
Community and State Program, Solution Support and Maintenance Operations (CSP SS&MO) is an initiative to consolidate business into one platform leveraging a common code base while supporting current growth trends and helping to standardize organizational alignment, processes and systems. It uses Facets®, a comprehensive managed care administrative system, with Oracle as backend. In this Project, Cognizant deals with development of additional features to the application thus providing maintenance, application development and enhancement support. This platform uses BDPaas (Big Data Platform) which is a multi-tenant Hadoop platform built on MapR Converged Data Platform with a wide range of capabilities. I have worked on developing automated systems which would regulate claims intake using Kafka stream and provide uniform distribution for the processing system. I have also built various real-time incremental membership extracts using Spark, Hive, Hbase and Python from traditional daily flat file based extracts. I have built various automation processes with web services like SOAP/REST and NRT adjudication of claims.
Service Coordinator– Hadoop/Sybase and VB.net
Cognizant Technology Solutions• October 2010 - November 2016
River Valley, Inc. formerly known as John Deere Health Plan, Inc. is a licensed Health Maintenance Organization with service areas in Illinois, Iowa, Tennessee, Ohio, Arkansas and Virginia serving commercial employers. Client is a leading health benefits company offering a wide range of medical and specialty products serving the needs of approximately 70 million medical members in the USA. As a Service Coordinator for this project, my role is to involve in all the Facets implementation areas such as Incidents & Problem tickets management through ServiceNow tool, Monitoring daily batches, resolving production issues via War rooms, creating Change Managements in ServiceNow tool, providing solutions to Service Requests, IT assistance to Business Analysts and Coordination with Offshore team. After 5 years of my tenure in this project, this system has been migrated to another system and planned for archival and decommission. So, as part of enterprise archive and decommission, I have worked on Sqoop for Data Ingestion from each decommissioned application database to HDFS. The archive project also used Hive for external tables on top of HDFS files. Data from Hive tables were indexed and stored in Elastic Search in JSON format. Front end UI will connect to Elastic search using REST API and return the result in the UI screen.
Software Developer - VB .Net and Sybase
Cognizant Technology Solutions• August 2007 - September 2010
Dental Shared Services is a business segment that caters to the managed care needs in the specialized care segment. It is implementing TriZetto’s Facets Enterprise managed care software system. It is a subcontractor of dental benefits to HMOs, unions, insurance companies, municipalities, and large corporations. The firm also offers Medicaid and Medicare plans. Customers include its enterprise clients, plan members, and dentists. This client has more than 4 million members and dentist networks in 48 states, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico. I have been involved in understanding the requirements for various change requests and in the design of various outbound and inbound interfaces. I have also involved in Analysis, Estimation, Coding & Design, Construction and testing phases of the project. I have primarily worked on Sybase Stored procedures to create inbound and outbound interfaces and VB .net to develop UI enhancement to the Facets product.
Education
Indiana University at Bloomington
Data Science, MS• August 2018 - Present
Anticipated completion - Dec 2020
Pondicherry University
Information Technology, B.Tech• May 2003 - June 2007