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  Talix

  Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)

  September 2018 to August 2019

  Role: Software Engineer

  • Improved a customer-facing medical NLP engine used by medical coders to extract clinical concepts from unstructured records and map them to ICD-10/CPT/HCPCS codes.
  • Increased multi-word concept recognition accuracy by 5% by optimizing Trie construction and improving phrase matching within the NLP pipeline.
  • Improved precision by 3% by enhancing parsing logic for special characters and clinical note formatting, reducing false-positive concept matches.
  
  
  • Technologies involved: Java 7 | JUnit | Apache OpenNLP | CVS | Oracle SQL | Tomcat
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  Infosys (client: Apple)

  Sunnyvale, CA

  June 2017 to September 2018

  

  Role: Technology Analyst

  • Built a Java REST microservice that acted as middleware for internal systems and ETL pipelines during an Oracle-to-NoSQL migration, enabling scalable data exchange.
  • Reduced API latency by 30% by optimizing transformation logic, eliminating redundant downstream calls, and caching frequently used reference mappings.
  
  
  • Technologies involved: Java 8 | REST | Maven | JSON | JUnit 4 | Mockito | Git | Tomcat
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  IT Consulting (clients: Charter | USAA | General Electric)

  Mexico

  January 2015 to May 2017

  Role: Software Developer

  • Delivered Java backend solutions for enterprise clients including GE (legacy desktop to web migration), USAA (new motorcycle insurance claims line of business), and Charter (ad scheduling optimization platform used by external clients).
  • Built REST APIs using Spring MVC / Spring Boot with Hibernate, integrating with Oracle and MySQL data stores.
  • Improved code quality and delivery reliability by establishing unit/integration testing practices (JUnit, Mockito, Selenium), enforcing standards via code reviews and SonarQube, and supporting CI pipelines in Jenkins.
  • Led small feature teams and mentored interns, improving onboarding and ensuring adherence to engineering best practices.
  
  
  • Technologies involved: Java | Spring MVC | Spring Boot | REST | Hibernate | Maven | JUnit | Mockito | Selenium | Git | Oracle SQL | MySQL | SonarQube | Jenkins

  

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