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Varun
Kumar

Senior Systems Engineer

4+ years engineering highly available, enterprise-scale platforms in regulated healthcare and financial environments — specializing in cloud-native AWS, API integration, and SRE practices.

At a Glance
Platform Uptime99.9%
Daily API Calls1M+
Projects Delivered5+
Years Experience4+
Certifications4
CloudAWS Lambda · S3 · EventBridge · CloudWatch
PlatformsKubernetes · Docker · VMware Tanzu
APIApigee Edge · REST · SOAP · OAuth2
ObservabilitySplunk · CloudWatch · ServiceNow ITSM
DataSnowflake · MongoDB · PostgreSQL · OracleDB
CodePython · Java · JavaScript · SQL · PL-SQL · Shell
CI/CDJenkins · GitHub Actions · Docker
ComplianceHIPAA · SOC2 · FDA/EU MDR · IAM
CloudAWS Lambda · S3 · EventBridge · CloudWatch
PlatformsKubernetes · Docker · VMware Tanzu
APIApigee Edge · REST · SOAP · OAuth2
ObservabilitySplunk · CloudWatch · ServiceNow ITSM
DataSnowflake · MongoDB · PostgreSQL · OracleDB
CodePython · Java · JavaScript · SQL · PL-SQL · Shell
CI/CDJenkins · GitHub Actions · Docker
ComplianceHIPAA · SOC2 · FDA/EU MDR · IAM
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About Me

Systems Engineer with a track record of building mission-critical platforms where uptime and data integrity are non-negotiable.

I specialize in DevOps and SRE practices for enterprise-scale healthcare and financial platforms — managing API gateways, container orchestration, and cloud-native pipelines processing over 1 million API calls daily.

My background spans integration platform ownership, observability engineering, enterprise system migrations in FDA-regulated environments, and data-driven process improvement using Lean Six Sigma in high-volume manufacturing operations.

I hold a Master’s in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University and certifications in Scrum, AWS Cloud, and Six Sigma.

Certifications
CSM
Certified Scrum Master®
AWS
AWS Cloud Practitioner
Six Sigma Green Belt
LSS
Lean Concepts & Application
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Experience

Current
May 2023 — Present
Boston, USA
Senior Systems Engineer
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
  • Managed end-to-end delivery for 5+ API/EDI integration projects in healthcare financial transactions.
  • Secured member data across Apigee Edge and VMware Tanzu via SSL/TLS rotation and IAM key management, maintaining HIPAA compliance.
  • Maintained 99.9% availability via 24×7 on-call — leading P1/P2 triage, root cause analysis, and durable remediation.
  • Standardized logging schemas across systems handling 1M+ daily API calls, enabling cross-system correlation.
  • Built custom Splunk dashboards and proactive alerting for API latency and error rates.
  • Designed serverless ETL pipelines using AWS Lambda, EventBridge, and S3.
  • Developed Python automation scripts for log analysis and data reconciliation.
  • Engineered ServiceNow ITSM workflows for automated ticket routing and SLA enforcement.
AWS LambdaS3EventBridgeApigee EdgeVMware TanzuKubernetesSplunkPythonServiceNowMongoDBOracleDBJenkinsREST APIsJavaJavaScriptHIPAA
Jan 2022 — Aug 2022
Danvers, USA
Product Engineer
Johnson & Johnson MedTech – Abiomed, Inc.
  • Led enterprise labeling platform migration — deployed EnLabel, moving 500+ templates with 100% data accuracy in a regulated environment.
  • Performed data mapping and validation, identifying edge cases in FDA-controlled production.
  • Facilitated UAT sessions with quality, production, and operations stakeholders.
  • Resolved persistent SAP S/4 HANA bottlenecks in lot sizing and material flow.
  • Authored SOPs and Visio workflow diagrams, reducing new-hire ramp-up time by 30%.
SAP S/4 HANAEnLabelJiraMS VisioUATFDA ControlsEU MDR
Jun 2019 — Nov 2020
Tamil Nadu, India
Project Engineer
Sri Andal Paper Mills Private Limited
  • Owned the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) financial workflow end-to-end.
  • Designed an ABC-analysis inventory replenishment system — reducing storage overhead by 10%.
  • Modernized inventory reporting in Tableau, replacing static spreadsheets with live dashboards.
  • Audited 10,000+ inventory records, improving accuracy by 25%.
  • Applied Lean Six Sigma (Muda elimination) to material handling to cut travel time.
TableauLean Six SigmaABC AnalysisSQLPythonPower BIProcurement
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Education

Northeastern University
Master of Science in Industrial Engineering
Boston, Massachusetts · January 2021 – December 2022
Project Management Operational Research Data Mining in Engineering Data Management for Analytics
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