Portrait of Abhay Bisht 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.

Python React TypeScript AWS Ruby on Rails SQL Java

Experience

  1. Aug 2025 — Present

    Athenahealth

    Software Engineer

    • Working across the stack on Athenahealth's cloud platform.
  2. Jun 2024 — Aug 2025

    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.
  3. Jan 2023 — Jun 2023

    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.
  4. Jan 2022 — Jun 2022

    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.