About

Gauri Pulekar is an experienced software developer with a strong background in leading software development teams across multiple time zones and continents. With six years of experience in the software industry, she has domain expertise in health insurance, invoice generation, payments processing, and PHI handling. She possesses skill sets in Azure, API, microservices, .NET, Java, databases, and solution designing. Gauri holds a Master of Science (M.S.) focused in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where she also completed her thesis in Mobile Sensing. She is known for her knack for solving complex problems and providing digital end-to-end solutions using her strong analytical, communication, ownership, and leadership skills. Currently serving as a Software Engineer II at Advantasure, Gauri has implemented the Billing module for new health insurance plans like Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arkansas, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska, and Premera Blue Cross. She has delivered complex software enhancements prior to target dates with minimal error and has taken initiative in creating a customizable Billing product for existent plans. She has also taken the initiative for making billing, payment, and reporting jobs auto-configurable by removing manual intervention across plans and environments. Her contributions have helped existent plans go defect-free within a set target time-span. Additionally, she has delivered quick hot-fixes and data fixes for the production environments and managed releases for the product across clients and environments. Gauri has also taken the lead in creating developer documentation and a centralized knowledge repository for the product and assisted in on-boarding new team members by explaining the architecture of the system. Gauri's past work experience includes serving as a Software Engineering Co-op at Visiant Health, where she developed software for the Billings module of health insurance projects for plans like Medicare and Obamacare. She also redesigned and redeveloped a complex invoice generation module for Obamacare, thereby optimizing performance, maintenance, sustainability, and debugging efforts. Additionally, she developed financial reports for reporting delinquent members, payment reconciliations, cash reporting, and broker history. Gauri's education history includes a Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai. Gauri possesses a diverse tech stack that includes experience in software engineering, SQL, product management, Java, microservices, Azure, mobile, JavaScript, Salesforce, and integration. With 8.