Currently at Athenahealth
Abhay Bisht
Software engineer at Athenahealth. Previously at Travelers.
I studied Computer Science at Northeastern, with a minor in Business Administration. Since graduating I've worked as a software engineer, mostly on full-stack web with some DevOps mixed in.
About
I'm a software engineer, currently at Athenahealth. Before that I spent two years at Travelers, and during college I did co-ops at Smartleaf and Optum. Most of my work is full-stack web with some DevOps alongside.
Experience
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Travelers
Associate Software Engineer
- Designed and built core pieces of a serverless cloud governance tool that monitors AWS resource compliance and handles automatic remediation.
- Built and maintained REST APIs across a set of Lambda microservices, using Pydantic models for payload validation to keep service-to-service calls reliable.
- Set up a CI/CD workflow that automatically publishes internal Python packages to PyPi, so shared libraries could actually be shared across the company.
- Designed and built a customer-facing React and TypeScript UI for user onboarding and account configuration.
- Onboarded and mentored two new engineers — wrote up system architecture docs, fielded technical questions, and curated their first batch of tickets.
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Smartleaf
Software Development Co-op
- Built and refined UI components for the Advisor Portal using Ruby on Rails, the Stimulus framework, HTML, and CSS.
- Designed and implemented the error-handling workflow for an external VM connected to the application — logging, monitoring, and timeout behavior.
- Updated backend logic across the Rails codebase and evolved the schema through Rails migrations against PostgreSQL.
- Became the team's go-to person for a proprietary environment configuration tool and authored a guide on using it consistently across environments.
- Presented to the software team on application vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies, and shared weekly status in company-wide meetings.
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Optum
Software Engineering Co-op
- Used Terraform to build and deploy infrastructure in both AWS and Azure, including an MSK cluster with an AWS Sandbox for testing.
- Stood up networking primitives in Azure (Virtual Network, Subnet, Load Balancer) alongside security protocols (Bastion, Firewall).
- Helped design and develop a centralized documentation microsite using TypeScript, Docusaurus, Yarn, and NPM.
- Wrote Jenkins pipeline templates for a variety of project types and configured the required plugins end-to-end.
- Configured a HashiCorp Vault instance alongside Jenkins and wired it into a microservice, working in an Agile workflow with lead engineers.
Projects
A few things from my time at Northeastern — some for class, some for fun.
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TricKey Typing
Vehicles and a typing minigame built on top of the open-source Covey.town, with a team of four.
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Photo Processor
A photo editor with filters, effects, layered edits, and downscaling — built in Java with a partner.
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FreeCell
A command-line version of classic solitaire, structured around the Model-View-Controller pattern.
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Countdown
A small Python CLI that counts down to a future date, down to the minute.