Shruti Hardia

Full Stack Developer | Cloud Architect | IEEE Published Researcher

Senior Full Stack .NET Developer and Cloud Engineer with 10+ years of experience architecting scalable enterprise applications, distributed systems, and cloud-native platforms using ASP.NET Core, AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. IEEE-published researcher focused on cloud computing, AI-driven system reliability, and secure digital infrastructure.

About

Full Stack .NET Developer with nearly a decade of experience designing, modernizing, and securing mission-critical enterprise systems in high-compliance industries, including healthcare and enterprise services.

💼 Expertise

I specialize in ASP.NET Core, microservices architecture, distributed systems, AWS cloud-native solutions, Kubernetes-based containerization, and DevOps automation, building scalable platforms that support millions of users.

☁️ Cloud & Modernization

I have extensive experience transforming legacy enterprise applications into resilient, cloud-native environments on AWS, enhancing scalability, reliability, and security. My work also explores AI-driven system reliability and advanced cloud computing strategies.

🎓 Background

I hold a Master’s degree in Computer Science and am currently based in the Chicago area.

📚 Research

An IEEE-published researcher in AI/ML, cloud computing and cybersecurity, I actively contribute to advancing secure and scalable digital systems through innovative research and publications.

🤝 Mentorship

I mentor aspiring professionals through Women in Tech and IEEE Women in Engineering, advocating for equitable access and representation in STEM.

Professional Experience

A journey through my career in software development and AI, showcasing growth and expertise in full-stack technologies and artificial intelligence.

Software Development Engineer

WEX Health Inc.

Chicago, IL • June 2021 - Present • Full-time

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Experience designing, developing, and deploying fault-tolerant, scalable, and resilient microservices using C#, SQL, .Net Core, and AWS services.

.NET Core AWS Terraform Docker Kubernetes C# +8 more

.NET Developer

Benefit Express

Schaumburg, IL • Nov 2019 - Jun 2021 • Full-time

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Developed and maintained .NET applications, enhancing client support and platform efficiency. Implemented security features and optimized performance across multiple benefit platforms.

.NET .NET Core C# SQL IIS LDAP +6 more

.NET Developer

Antra

Dulles, VA • Apr 2016 - Nov 2019 • Full-time

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Developed .NET applications improving client satisfaction and system reliability. Led production support, implemented SSO authentication, and optimized SQL performance while establishing monitoring solutions to reduce system downtime.

.NET C# SQL IIS SSO Production Support +3 more
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Software Development Engineer

WEX Health Inc.

Chicago, IL • June 2021 - Present • Full-time

Role Description

Experience designing, developing, and deploying fault-tolerant, scalable, and resilient microservices using C#, SQL, .Net Core, and AWS services.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop .NET Core apps, enhancing HR tools for client satisfaction and operational efficiency
  • Optimize AWS infrastructure, boosting deployment speed and reliability
  • Lead cloud-native app development with AWS services and Terraform
  • Collaborate with teams to resolve issues, ensuring smooth production support
  • Foster cross-team collaboration in DevOps practices, unifying development and operations workflows to achieve seamless deployment processes
  • Drive infrastructure modernization through containerization, leveraging Docker and Kubernetes to enhance deployment flexibility and system stability
  • Implement comprehensive security protocols for healthcare data protection, ensuring regulatory compliance while maintaining system accessibility
  • Architect cloud-native applications using AWS services and Terraform, driving modernization through containerized solutions that enhance system resilience
  • Spearhead infrastructure optimization initiatives leveraging Docker and Kubernetes, resulting in improved deployment flexibility and system stability
  • Establish robust security protocols for healthcare data protection while maintaining seamless system accessibility and regulatory compliance
  • Lead .NET Core application development, implementing CI/CD pipelines that enhance operational efficiency and reduce system downtime
  • Streamline DevOps workflows through automated testing and deployment strategies, reducing production incidents and improving release consistency
  • Pioneer infrastructure modernization efforts, implementing cloud-native patterns that enhance system resilience and operational excellence
  • Proficient in Terraform, automating cloud resource provisioning and ensuring scalable, maintainable infrastructure
  • Hands-on experience with Angular, building dynamic, responsive, and high-performance user interfaces
  • Strong knowledge of GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, automating build, test, and deployment pipelines for seamless software delivery
  • Partner with business analysts and QA teams to translate complex requirements into efficient technical solutions for payroll and HR applications
  • Drive production support excellence through systematic issue resolution and proactive database optimization for enhanced platform performance
  • Design and implement cloud-native solutions using AWS Lambda and API Gateway, modernizing healthcare platform architecture for enhanced scalability
  • Experience in Kafka and event-driven design, enabling high-performance real-time data streaming and asynchronous processing

Technologies Used

.NET Core C# AWS Terraform Docker Kubernetes Angular SQL AWS Lambda API Gateway Kafka GitHub Actions Azure DevOps CI/CD
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.NET Developer

Benefit Express

Schaumburg, IL • Nov 2019 - Jun 2021 • Full-time

Role Description

Developed and maintained .NET applications, enhancing client support and platform efficiency. Implemented security features including SSO and OAuth2, optimized SQL performance, and orchestrated cross-functional development initiatives across multiple benefit platforms.

Key Responsibilities

  • Developed and maintained .NET apps, enhancing client support and platform efficiency
  • Implemented SSO using LDAP, improving security and user access
  • Configured IIS for hosting, ensuring stable application deployment
  • Optimized SQL queries, boosting data retrieval performance
  • Utilized GIT for version control, streamlining CI processes
  • Streamlined deployment processes through Git version control and CI tools, ensuring consistent application delivery while reducing deployment bottlenecks
  • Orchestrated cross-functional development initiatives spanning front-end and back-end technologies, delivering seamless integration of multiple benefit platforms
  • Engineered comprehensive security features including OAuth2 authorisation and form-based authentication, enhancing platform protection and user validation
  • Architected robust microservices architecture for benefits platform, integrating RESTful APIs and implementing advanced caching mechanisms to enhance system performance
  • Spearheaded migration from legacy systems to modern .NET Core framework, reducing system downtime and enhancing platform scalability
  • Developed custom middleware solutions for real-time data synchronization between multiple benefit systems, streamlining cross-platform operations

Technologies Used

.NET .NET Core C# SQL IIS LDAP SSO OAuth2 Git CI/CD RESTful APIs Microservices
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.NET Developer

Antra

Dulles, VA • Apr 2016 - Nov 2019 • Full-time

Role Description

Developed .NET applications improving client satisfaction and system reliability with measurable outcomes. Led production support initiatives, implemented SSO authentication, and optimized SQL performance while establishing comprehensive monitoring solutions to minimize system downtime.

Key Responsibilities

  • Developed .NET apps, improving client satisfaction and system reliability with measurable outcomes
  • Implemented SSO, enhancing user access and significantly strengthening data protection
  • Optimized SQL queries, boosting data retrieval efficiency and overall system performance
  • Led production support, swiftly resolving technical issues to ensure seamless operations
  • Configured IIS servers, guaranteeing reliable deployment and optimal application performance
  • Facilitated cross-team knowledge transfer by establishing best practices in .NET development, enhancing overall team productivity and code quality
  • Architected and implemented custom monitoring solutions for critical applications, reducing system downtime through proactive issue identification
  • Refined IIS server configurations and deployment processes, establishing reliable application hosting environments with enhanced stability
  • Engineered robust .NET solutions with integrated SSO authentication, elevating system security while streamlining user access across enterprise applications
  • Spearheaded database performance initiatives through advanced SQL query optimization, delivering substantial improvements in data retrieval speed
  • Implemented a comprehensive application monitoring framework, minimizing system downtime through early issue detection and rapid resolution

Technologies Used

.NET C# SQL IIS SSO Production Support Database Optimization Application Monitoring Deployment

Skills

C#
.NET Core
ASP.NET Core
MVC
Entity Framework
LINQ
AWS
Lambda
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
DevOps
CI/CD
Microservices
REST API
Kafka
SQL Server
PostgreSQL
Angular
JavaScript
jQuery
HTML
CSS
Bootstrap
Git/GitHub
Web Development

Publications

Decentralized Intelligence for Smart Cities: Integrating Federated Learning, Blockchain, and Foundation Models for Privacy-Preserving Urban Data Management

The growing complexity of urban data management in smart cities necessitates innovative solutions that balance predictive accuracy, scalability, and privacy. This paper proposes a novel framework that integrates Federated Learning (FL), Blockchain, and Foundation Models (FMs) to address these challenges. By leveraging FL, data is processed locally on edge devices, ensuring that sensitive information remains private and secure, while the predictive power of FMs enhances real-time decision-making across urban systems. Blockchain technology ensures transparency and trust, providing an immutable ledger for secure governance and operations. The proposed system enables seamless collaboration across diverse data sources while preserving privacy and fostering a decentralized, resilient infrastructure. A practical use case in inventory management and sales forecasting for businesses within a smart city is presented, showcasing how this framework can enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain high standards of data protection. This integrated approach sets a new standard for secure, adaptive, and efficient smart city management.

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Synthetic Network Intelligence: Diffusion-Based Data Generation for Secure Communication Analysis

The scarcity of high-quality labeled network data poses a significant challenge for machine learning applications in cybersecurity and traffic analysis. This study presents a novel approach leveraging diffusion models to generate high-fidelity synthetic network traces, preserving critical structural and statistical properties of real-world traffic. By employing an optimized fine-tuning pipeline, controlled generation constraints, and automated post-processing techniques, the framework en-sures compliance with network protocols while enhancing model performance in classification tasks. Experimental evaluations demonstrate that the generated data achieves strong statistical alignment with real traces and serves as an effective augmentation tool for AI-driven network analysis. This research highlights the potential of generative AI in improving data availability for secure communications research.

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AI-Driven Threat Detection: Evaluating Machine Learning Models for Cyber Intrusion Defense

Conventional security systems find it hard to safeguard a company from the growing, complex cyber threats. The study assesses several algorithms on their effectiveness in identifying cyber intrusions and the performance of the machine learning techniques used in the process. It can compare different contexts with true external events and measure its capability of distinguishing normal network activities from identifying networks with abnormal behavior. The report highlights the advantages and limitations of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in internet protection solutions. It points to how a monitoring framework can be organized in a better way.

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A Scalable System for Software Repository Analysis and Retrieva

The rapid growth of modern software ecosystems has resulted in massive, globally distributed code repositories, creating significant challenges in efficient indexing, retrieval, and structural analysis. Existing repository mining tools often struggle to scale, lack deep code structure correlation, or provide limited support for multi-language analysis. This paper introduces SearchSECO, a distributed, language-agnostic search and analysis engine designed for large-scale software repository mining. The system integrates a modular architecture comprising a high-throughput crawler for metadata harvesting, a parallel retriever for repository acquisition, and hybrid parsers leveraging both srcML and custom ANTLR grammars for precise method-level extraction. A distributed Apache Cassandra backend ensures scalable, fault tolerant storage, while a high-performance networking layer enables low-latency client-server communication. Experimental evaluations on diverse open-source datasets demonstrate the system’s ability to process millions of methods across thousands of repositories with near-linear scalability. By linking methods, authors, and version histories across projects, SearchSECO enables advanced cross-repository analytics for vulnerability detection, clone identification, and software evolution studies. This work contributes to the fields of software engineering and repository mining by delivering an extensible framework that combines scal- ability, accuracy, and adaptability to emerging programming languages and repository platforms.

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Community Involvement

Volunteer Work

IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE), Treasurer Role, Chicago Section

Supporting professional development, STEM outreach, and technical mentoring initiatives to empower women and girls in technology.

Professional Memberships

IEEE Senior Member IEEE Women in Engineering IEEE Chicago Section

Achievements & Recognition

Professional certifications, awards, and recognition received throughout my career in software development.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03)

Amazon Web Services

Dec 2023 - Dec 2026

Certification

Validates expertise in designing distributed systems on AWS, including compute, networking, storage, and database services. Demonstrates ability to architect secure and robust applications on AWS technologies.

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.NET Full Stack Developer Specialization

Linkedin

2024

Certification

Completed comprehensive specialization in .NET full stack development, covering frontend and backend technologies, APIs, databases, and modern development practices.

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IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE), Treasurer Role

IEEE Chicago Section

Ongoing

Mentoring

Supporting professional development, STEM outreach, and technical mentoring initiatives to empower women and girls in technology through IEEE Women in Engineering Chicago Section.

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IEEE Senior Member

IEEE

Ongoing

Recognition

Recognized as IEEE Senior Member for significant performance and contributions to the profession. Active member of IEEE Chicago Section, contributing to professional development and community initiatives.

Google Analytics Certification

Google

2024

Certification

Completed Google Analytics certification course, demonstrating proficiency in web analytics, data analysis, and digital marketing measurement strategies.

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Inrtoduction to Agentic AI

GenAI.Works

2025

Certification

Learned to make decisions tailored to business constraints, understand when & how to apply AI effectively & build a multi-agent application. Covered RAG, evals, agents, MCP, multi-agents, and context engineering.

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IEEE Young Professional

IEEE

Ongoing

Recognition

Active member of IEEE Young Professionals, engaging in professional development activities, networking opportunities, and contributing to the advancement of technology and engineering.

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03)

Amazon Web Services

Dec 2023 - Dec 2026

About

Validates expertise in designing distributed systems on AWS, including compute, networking, storage, and database services. Demonstrates ability to architect secure and robust applications on AWS technologies.

Skills Validated

Design resilient architectures, design high-performing architectures, design secure applications and architectures, design cost-optimized architectures, and define operationally excellent architectures.

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.NET Full Stack Developer Specialization

Linkedin

2024

Description

Completed comprehensive specialization in .NET full stack development, covering frontend and backend technologies, APIs, databases, and modern development practices.

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IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE), Treasurer Role

IEEE Chicago Section

Ongoing

Description

Supporting professional development, STEM outreach, and technical mentoring initiatives to empower women and girls in technology through IEEE Women in Engineering Chicago Section. Managing financial operations, supporting STEM outreach programs, facilitating professional development workshops, and contributing to initiatives that empower women in technology and engineering fields.

Responsibilities

Managing financial operations, supporting STEM outreach programs, facilitating professional development workshops, and contributing to initiatives that empower women in technology and engineering fields.

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IEEE Senior Member

IEEE

Ongoing

Description

Recognized as IEEE Senior Member for significant performance and contributions to the profession. Active member of IEEE Chicago Section, contributing to professional development and community initiatives. IEEE Senior Member is a prestigious grade of membership that recognizes professional experience and demonstrated technical and professional maturity. Requires at least 10 years of professional experience with 5 years of significant performance.

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Google Analytics Certification

Google

2024

About

Completed Google Analytics certification course, demonstrating proficiency in web analytics, data analysis, and digital marketing measurement strategies.

Skills Covered

Google Analytics platform, data collection and configuration, reporting and analysis, conversion tracking, audience segmentation, campaign measurement, and data-driven decision making.

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Inrtoduction to Agentic AI

GenAI.Works

2025

About

Learned to make decisions tailored to business constraints, understand when & how to apply AI effectively & build a multi-agent application.

Skills Covered

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), evaluations, AI agents, MCP (Model Context Protocol), multi-agent systems, context engineering, and problem-first approach to AI application development.

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IEEE Young Professional

IEEE

Ongoing

About

Active member of IEEE Young Professionals, engaging in professional development activities, networking opportunities, and contributing to the advancement of technology and engineering.

Benefits & Activities

Access to exclusive networking events, professional development resources, mentorship opportunities, technical workshops, and collaboration with young professionals worldwide in advancing technology and innovation.

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