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Siddharth Desai

Sidd6737@gmail.com
Lynchburg, VA 24502
(917)-518-6737
Senior Backend Engineer | Release Manager

Summary

Software developer and release manager with 5+ years building production systems for insurance and financial services companies. Experienced in C#, .NET Core, and CI/CD automation with strong skills in cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure), system design, and deployment reliability. Reduced deployment times by 65% and maintained a 98% success rate across 150+ production releases.

Technical Skills

C#
JavaScript
PowerShell
YAML
.NET Core
Azure DevOps
CI/CD Pipelines
AWS
Azure
SQL Server
Splunk
Confluence
ServiceNow

Work Experience

Developer (Current Position)
Pacific Life, Lynchburg, VA
June 2023 - Present
150+ Releases 98% Success 99.8% Uptime

• Built deployment automation scripts in PowerShell that reduced average deployment time by 65% (from 4 hours to 1.5 hours), implementing automated health checks, rollback procedures, and Splunk monitoring integration across production environments

• Designed and deployed company-wide cache management solution using JavaScript versioning integrated with Azure DevOps pipelines, eliminating 100% of stale content issues across 15+ web applications and reducing user support tickets by 95%

• Diagnosed production web service integration failures by analyzing C# application code, SOAP XML payloads, and SQL database execution logs across distributed .NET systems, identifying data synchronization timing dependencies between various services that caused 2% error rate in automated workflows while manual reprocessing achieved 100% success after 5-minute delay

• Reorganized entire source code repository structure, creating clear folder hierarchies and naming conventions that reduced confusion and increased deployment efficiency by 40%

• Developed business rules engine for insurance portal using C# that determines how claims are processed based on policy types, coverage amounts, and claim categories

• Enhanced CI/CD pipelines by creating and modifying YAML configuration files in Azure DevOps, improving automated testing stages and deployment process efficiency

• Set up complete test environment from ground up using infrastructure as code principles, provisioning all components, databases, and application integrations needed for comprehensive testing before production releases

• Partnered with QA, Infrastructure, and DevOps teams to triage build pipeline issues, validate environment configurations, and coordinate multi-application release deployments across distributed .NET systems in Azure DevOps

• Managed production deployments for 15+ web applications using Azure DevOps release pipelines, achieving 98% deployment success rate across 150+ releases while maintaining comprehensive technical documentation and incident tracking in Confluence and ServiceNow

Developer
American Insurance Group (AIG), Houston, TX
January 2022 - December 2022
40% Faster 200+ Tickets

• Redesigned Client Care Desktop by converting legacy desktop application into web service architecture using microservices pattern, improving customer service request processing time by 40%

• Maintained 4Sight application backend handling 10,000+ daily transactions, resolving 200+ backlog tickets including bug fixes, performance improvements, and new feature development while documenting all changes in Confluence

• Integrated backend services with SQL Server databases for data persistence, implementing caching strategies for frequently accessed customer data and optimized stored procedures to improve report generation speed by 60%

• Developed batch processing services for data ingestion and transformation workflows, processing insurance policy data from multiple source systems using Splunk for log analysis and tracking progress in ServiceNow

• Collaborated with QA and Database teams to optimize data ingestion workflows, refine stored procedures, and streamline nightly batch job executions—reducing report latency and improving transaction throughput across backend systems

Developer
Amtrust Financial, Cleveland, OH
October 2019 - January 2022
High Uptime Clean Code

• Built backend solutions using .NET Core framework with C# based on business requirements for insurance policy administration and claims processing systems, documenting technical specifications in Confluence for team reference

• Optimized SQL Server stored procedures and database queries using execution plan analysis, reducing average response time from 8 seconds to 2 seconds

• Refactored legacy .NET Framework code to .NET Core, improving code maintainability, removing deprecated dependencies, and reducing technical debt by 40%

• Implemented real-time monitoring dashboards using Splunk, collecting system metrics and performance data to proactively identify bottlenecks before they impacted users

• Developed automation scripts for data processing tasks including policy data validation and report generation, saving 15 hours per week of manual work

• Coordinated with QA, Database Admin, and Release Management teams to migrate legacy .NET Framework applications to .NET Core pipelines, streamline deployment scripts, and ensure compatibility across multiple production environments

Education

Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science
Monroe College, New Rochelle, NY
August 2017 - April 2019