Koushik Reddy

Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing and developing enterprise applications using Generative AI, LLMs, and modern backend technologies. Hands-on experience building production-ready AI solutions with AWS Bedrock, Claude, Amazon Titan, RAG, Prompt Engineering, Embeddings, Semantic Search, and FastAPI. Strong expertise in Python, Node.js, React.js, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, and cloud-native application development.

Passionate about building scalable, secure, and production-grade AI systems using modern software engineering best practices.

Software Engineer - 2 at Ellucian Higher Education system pvt Ltd (2025-07 – Present)

• Designed and developed the Enterprise Journey Assistant (AI Chat Assistant) using AWS Bedrock (Claude & Amazon Titan), implementing Prompt Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Embeddings, Semantic Search, and Context Engineering to deliver grounded, context-aware responses through scalable Python, FastAPI, and RESTful APIs, improving enterprise knowledge discovery and user assistance.
• Engineered AI-ready data pipelines for Lightcast labor market intelligence, developing scalable Python and Node.js services to ingest, transform, validate, and normalize high-volume workforce datasets into structured enterprise models, enabling downstream AI/ML, LLM, analytics, and intelligent search applications while improving data quality and processing efficiency.
• Built reusable AI integration components for enterprise applications by implementing LLM integration patterns, AI orchestration, vector search, metadata-driven retrieval, and secure backend services, contributing to scalable AI adoption while adhering to enterprise security, cloud, and software engineering best practices.

Software Engineer - 1 at Ellucian Higher Education system pvt Ltd (2022-07 – 2025-07)

• Engineered scalable backend microservices using Node.js, Express.js, and RESTful APIs, integrating enterprise applications with Oracle ORDS and implementing secure authentication, payload transformation, and distributed service communication.
• Developed high-performance data processing pipelines using Node.js Streams, automating large-scale CSV-to-JSON transformations with AWS S3 multipart uploads, significantly improving throughput and reliability for enterprise data ingestion workflows.
• Designed and integrated backend APIs with Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle APEX, and third-party enterprise systems, improving data consistency, workflow automation, and cross-system interoperability through optimized API and database interactions.
• Improved software quality and deployment efficiency by implementing Selenium automation, Jenkins CI/CD, GitHub workflows, comprehensive API testing, and participating in code reviews while mentoring junior developers on backend engineering best practices.

Software Engineer at Comviva (Xevyte Technologies, formerly I Square Tech) (2021-08 – 2022-07)

• Developed scalable web applications using React.js, Context API, and Redux, integrating RESTful APIs to deliver reliable product dashboards with strong UX.
• Built production-ready backend services with Node.js and Express.js, implementing JWT authentication, RBAC, input validation, API versioning, and fault-tolerant error handling.
• Ensured release quality through automated Selenium end-to-end and API testing, and collaborative Git workflows — enabling rapid, stable deployments in Agile environments.

Bachelor's degree in civil Engineering – Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka (2015 – 2019)