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Backend Systems & Data Platform Engineer

Anusha modernizes the backend systems everyone else has learned to work around — in healthcare data, cloud FinOps, and now payments at PayPal.

Senior Software Engineer with nearly a decade of production experience in Ruby on Rails, Java, and data pipeline engineering across healthcare technology and cloud FinOps platforms. Currently at PayPal, Austin. Previously at VMware's CloudHealth and Oracle Cerner. Known for modernizing pipelines that other engineers had left untouched, writing documentation that survives team turnover, and treating on-call rotations as root-cause exercises rather than service restoration tasks.

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9yr

backend engineering across healthcare and cloud FinOps

Rails

Ruby on Rails, Java, and Scala — full backend stack

100%

Azure VM cost data accuracy restored after pipeline modernization

Multi-cloud

AWS + Azure cost pipeline engineering at CloudHealth scale

Portfolio

Proof from the code most engineers inherit and dread — legacy pipelines and brittle services made correct, documented, and safe to build on.

  • Modernized Azure VM metrics pipeline at CloudHealth — 100% data accuracy restored for thousands of customers
  • Built incentive-based healthcare ETL pipeline at Oracle Cerner using Apache Crunch, Sqoop, and Oozie
  • Reduced Ruby codebase technical debt and latency on Azure cost history reporting at VMware
  • Open-source contribution: React UI components for Cerner Terra Core Repository
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Playbook

Code that can't be explained is debt that can't be paid down.

Documentation isn't a deliverable after the work — it's part of what makes the work complete
On-call shows you where the system actually fails, not where the tests assumed it would
Full approach & philosophy