Ramendra Kotharkar

Software Architect

SkillTune Technologies Inc. · Albany, NY, USA

Azure | .NET 8 | Agentic AI | LLMs | NLP | RAG | AKS | SQL Server / Azure SQL | Python | React | Node.js | Healthcare (HIPAA)

• Architected Agentic AI tools for healthcare products using LLMs, NLP, RAG and LangChain, automating multi-step operational workflows and reducing manual processing effort by ~35% while improving decision support.
• Designed and implemented a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline to ingest and process patient data from documents and databases, leveraging vector databases (like Pinecone) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to retrieve, contextualize, and present relevant patient information.
• Built an AI-powered conversational assistant that lets end users securely query billing and related information in natural language with personalised, context-aware responses, deflecting ~25% of routine support queries.
• Delivered cloud-native Azure applications with .NET Core (C#), Azure Functions, App Service and API Gateway, integrating 30+ services on an Azure SQL / SQL Server data tier.
• Architected HIPAA-compliant public health applications (Python, React, Node.js) for the New York State Department of Health, enforcing data privacy and security controls with zero critical findings in security reviews.
• Deployed containerised microservices on AKS (Docker, Kubernetes) with Azure DevOps CI/CD, cutting deployment lead time by ~50% and improving resilience and scalability.
• Led delivery for a 20-member engineering team with solution governance across 4+ concurrent initiatives.

Senior Technical Architect

Simplify Healthcare · Pune, India

Azure | .NET Core | SQL Server | ARM Templates | U.S. Healthcare (HIPAA)

• Led architecture and delivery of the Provider1 and Benefits1 platforms for the U.S. healthcare market, reducing manual effort by ~30% through process automation and platform optimisation.
• Automated Azure infrastructure provisioning with ARM templates, reducing environment setup time by 40% while strengthening security and governance.
• Designed HIPAA-compliant healthcare solutions combining automation, advanced analytics and decision support to deliver personalised recommendations.

Deputy Vice President – Software Architect

KFin Technologies (KFintech) · Hyderabad

.NET Core | SQL Server | RabbitMQ | Microservices | Mutual Fund Platforms | Agile

• Architected RabbitMQ-based asynchronous messaging for mutual fund transaction processing, reducing processing latency by ~40% and infrastructure costs by ~20%.
• Defined architecture patterns for .NET Core services and SQL Server data access (indexing, query optimisation), improving application response times by ~35% and raising code quality and scalability.
• Championed Agile delivery (Sprint Planning, Kanban, Retrospectives), driving a 30% increase in client satisfaction.
• Partnered with 28+ stakeholders across Mutual Fund organisations, translating requirements into architectures with end-to-end traceability; led architecture for a team of 40+ engineers.

Senior Technical Architect

InfoVision Labs (IVL) · Pune, India

.NET Core 3.1 | Angular | Module Federation | SQL Server | Azure Service Bus | Kafka | SAML 2.0

• Architected a scalable Global Catalog platform with .NET Core 3.1, Angular and Module Federation on SQL Server, enabling modular development and accelerating feature delivery by ~30%.
• Established architecture standards, documentation and onboarding frameworks, reducing engineering overall ramp-up time by 50% and more.
• Implemented SAML 2.0 SSO, strengthening identity management across distributed enterprise platforms.
• Led 9 technology PoCs (Azure Service Bus, Kafka, GraphQL, Serilog, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Splunk, Log Analytics, Keycloak) to select messaging and observability standards.
• Mentored 10+ architects on enterprise architecture, governance and design principles; spearheaded Agile transformation.

Senior Architect

ATOS · Pune, India

• Led security architecture for the COFIS platform across 9 global geographies; directed remediation of 15,000+ inline SQL queries vulnerable to SQL injection.
• Architected secure web applications for a leading financial services client and consolidated codebases across geographies; improved project profitability through workforce planning.

Consultant

Bodhtree Consulting Ltd. · Hyderabad, India

• Architected the Scribe Letter Generation platform (AngularJS, CKEditor, ASP.NET Web API), automating template-driven document generation and resolving complex CKEditor performance issues.