Rushikesh Samaiahgare

Senior Staff Software Architect  ·  18+ Years Experience

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Professional Summary
  • Seasoned Enterprise Architect with 18+ years delivering high-performing solutions across Aviation, Financial, Healthcare, and Insurance industries.
  • 17+ years of full software development lifecycle experience — design, specification, development, testing, and release management.
  • Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) for building scalable and secure web applications.
  • Strong background in Microservices, Event-Driven, and SOA architectural styles.
  • Proven record of delivering secure software using OWASP Top 10 and CWE guidelines; solid understanding of PII and PCI compliance.
  • Hands-on experience with modern frontend stacks: ReactJS, Angular, NodeJS; mobile with ReactNative; backend with Spring Boot and Python.
  • Hands-on practitioner of AI-assisted software development — using Claude and Cursor daily to accelerate architecture design, code generation, and code review across regulated healthcare software.
  • Championing AI adoption at the engineering-team level: establishing prompt engineering standards, evaluating LLM tooling, and embedding AI workflows into CI/CD pipelines to measurably reduce development cycle times.
  • Applied NLP and Machine Learning in production — delivering an NLP-powered iPad chatbot for FedEx pilots and integrating Babylon Health AI APIs into Prudential's Pulse wellness app, serving users across 11 languages in Asia and Africa.
  • Completed Machine Learning certification (Stanford / Coursera); grounded understanding of model training, evaluation, and practical deployment trade-offs.
  • Experience evaluating and integrating third-party AI/ML APIs and LLM services into enterprise platforms — balancing capability, data privacy, and compliance constraints (HIPAA, PII, SaMD regulations).
  • 15+ years maintaining production WordPress sites backed by MySQL, PHP, and Linux.
Professional Experience
BrightInsight Feb 2022 – Present
Senior Staff Software Architect
Disease Management Solution
SaaS platform enabling biopharma and medtech companies to configure and deploy Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) digital solutions — including a Patient App, Analytics Dashboards, and Healthcare Provider interfaces — built on Google Cloud (GCP).
  • Leading architectural decisions for the company's core platform with frontend/mobile specialization.
  • Driving adoption of AI-driven modern development practices (Claude, Cursor) across engineering teams.
  • Collaborating with CTO, VPs, Directors, and senior IC leaders to deliver high-quality regulated software.
  • Building software platforms from the ground up — creating standards, guidelines, and development methods.
  • Ensuring software designs are correct, efficient, safe, robust, and ready for regulatory review.
  • Leading complex software programs with multiple simultaneous projects; mentoring engineers.
  • Evaluating and adopting development tools, platform infrastructure, and cloud services.
Stack: Java 17, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), NodeJS, Fastify, Spring Boot, ReactJS, ReactNative, Vite, Vitest, pdfJS, PostgreSQL, Maven, Jenkins CI, SonarQube, Mockito, JMeter, DataDog, GCP, Claude, Cursor
AccoliteDigital – USA Nov 2018 – Feb 2022
Senior Solutions Architect
iPad ChatBot for FedEx Pilots
NLP/ML-powered app eliminating the need for pilots to use multiple applications to access flight schedules, book sleep pods, and more.
FedEx Integrated Event Capture (IEC)
Scalable system to capture, analyze, and provide analytics on flight operation irregularities identified by Crew Scheduling.
InSite – Pilot Operational Report
Operational grievance reporting platform used by 6,000+ FedEx pilots; led from inception through delivery and enhancements.
Fatigue Risk Management System (FRMS)
Suite of web and iPad products allowing airlines (FedEx, American, United, Delta, Air Canada, Atlas Air) to analyze, track, and manage safe flying environments.
  • End-to-end solution delivery for FRMS across major North American airlines.
  • Provided NLP solutions, POCs for prospective projects, and pre-sales support.
  • Built iPad app using ReactJS, ReactNative, and Redux from ideation to delivery.
  • Created automation framework using Selenium WebDriver.
  • Designed and maintained REST APIs for data analytics use cases across airlines.
Stack: Java 17, Python, Spring Boot, Flask, ReactJS, ReactNative, Kafka, Jest, Jasmine, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Maven, Jenkins CI, SonarQube, DataDog, AWS (S3, Glue, Athena)
AccoliteDigital – India Dec 2015 – Nov 2018
Architect & Technical Delivery Manager
JumpSeat (FedEx Corporation)
Critical FAA-compliance app managing auxiliary seat assignments for jump seat riders; saves significant time and cost for FedEx operations.
Pulse App (Prudential)
AI-powered health and wellness app (Babylon Health APIs) available in 11 languages across Asia and Africa, combining symptom checking with financial planning advice.
  • Played a pivotal role in bringing Prudential's Pulse mobile application to market.
  • Owned end-to-end delivery — ideation, architecture, estimation, and production release.
  • Led multiple teams of 10 engineers across Java, ML, NLP, Spring, JavaScript, Angular, React.
  • Delivered technical talks and training on in-demand languages, frameworks, and libraries.
  • Provided expert guidance on secure coding, deployment strategy, and software architecture.
Stack: Java 8, AngularJS, ReactJS, ReactNative, Jasmine, jQuery, MySQL, Maven, Jenkins CI, SonarQube, Mockito, JMeter
ProKarma – India July 2014 – Dec 2015
Solutions Architect
T-Mobile POS / API Gateway
Introduced an enterprise API Gateway governing access to SOA systems — federating heterogeneous services and enforcing security, throttling, transformation, and monitoring policies.
T-Mobile SSO (Single Sign-On)
MEAN-stack SPA providing OAuth-based sign-in and user management.
Union Pacific Rail Road (UPRR)
Responsive web application modernization for the largest US railroad network (31,800 route-miles, 23 states).
  • Created reusable Angular components (Ricola3) for UPRR; led the Web Technologies Centre of Excellence (COE).
  • Steered multiple enterprise teams across Java, Spring, NodeJS, AngularJS, and modern web stacks.
  • Led requirements gathering, UML modeling, effort estimation, and release planning.
  • Provided training and guidance on web technologies organization-wide at ProKarma.
Stack: Java 8, NodeJS, MongoDB, AngularJS, Express, Jasmine, MySQL, Maven, Jenkins CI, SonarQube, Mockito
Kony Solutions – India May 2013 – July 2014
Technical Lead & Member, Technical Architecture Group
Solutions Workbench, Table as a Service, JSHint & Jasmine Tooling
Configuration management tool for Kony Apps (JPA/Hibernate/Spring/jQuery); mobile database sync service; static code analysis and TDD enablement for headless CI execution of Kony apps.
  • Built Java/JEE/Spring/REST software components for internal Kony product teams.
  • Created mobile software components using Kony Studio.
  • Involved in the technical interview process; conducted performance testing with JMeter and SoapUI.
  • Deployed on Amazon EC2 Medium and Microsoft Azure Medium instances.
Stack: Java 6, Spring 3.2, JPA, Hibernate, jQuery, MySQL, Maven, Jenkins CI, SonarQube, Tomcat
Vensoft LLC – DE, USA Jun 2011 – Apr 2013
Senior Java Developer
Emergency Department Tracking Board (Siemens, PA)
Real-time ED census board enabling triage nurses to manage patient flow and bed status using Siemens Soarian platform.
New@Once (De Lage Landen, PA)  ·  Automated Claims Adjustment (HealthNow NY)  ·  Inventory Management (AIG, NC)  ·  Quoting & Renewals (BCBS Texas)
Enterprise J2EE applications across finance, insurance, and healthcare verticals.
  • Developed presentation layer using JSP, custom JavaScript, HTML, and CSS with MVC design patterns.
  • Built Value Objects and Data Access Objects against SQL Server and Oracle databases.
  • Deployed on IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0; followed Scrum methodology throughout.
Stack: Java 5–7, Spring 3.0, ExtJS, DWR, Hibernate, DB2, Oracle 10g, IBM WebSphere, Tomcat, ClearCase, Ant
GHG Corporation – Houston, TX, USA Jan 2007 – Jul 2007
Java Developer
eHRMS (Electronic Human Resource Management Software)
Web-based HR system enabling employees to self-manage benefits selection (medical, dental, and others) via browser, replacing a manual paper-form process.
Stack: Java 1.4, Swing, J2EE (JSP, Servlets, JDBC), Struts, SQL Server 2000, IBM WebSphere
Brigade Corporation – Hyderabad, India Aug 2004 – Jul 2005
Developer
BPO Support Knowledge Tool
Heuristic knowledge database helping customer support representatives resolve issues faster by auto-tracking email correspondence.
Stack: J2SE 1.4, J2EE 1.3 (JSP, JDBC, Servlets), Struts 1.2, JavaMail, SQL Server, JRUN 4
Avantel Softech Ltd – Hyderabad, India Jan 2004 – May 2004
Jr. Developer
PMS (Project Management System) – Capstone Project
Web-based project tracking system allowing global monitoring of work assignments and completion status across Avantel and its subsidiaries.
Stack: Java 1.4, J2EE (JSP, Servlets, JDBC), Struts, JavaScript, Oracle 9i, BEA Weblogic