ClaimEase

Problem

Insurance claims processing involves documents that carry sensitive personal and financial data, handled by multiple internal services (intake, verification, routing). A single monolithic path for that data increases both the blast radius of a compromise and the difficulty of enforcing least-privilege access per step.

Architecture

A microservices platform behind a central API gateway, with OCR and NLP stages handling document verification as isolated services rather than inline logic in a single app. The gateway enforces access-controlled routing, so each downstream service only receives the data and permissions it needs for its step in the claim-processing pipeline.

Key decisions

• —API gateway as the single enforcement point for access control, instead of duplicating auth logic across services.
• —OCR and NLP document verification isolated as their own services — keeps the extraction/parsing surface (the part most exposed to malformed or adversarial input) separated from core claims logic.
• —Docker-based microservices, so each service can be scaled, patched, and access-scoped independently.