Prakhar Srivastava

Engineering Manager

London, England, United Kingdom7 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led design of mission-critical FX data pipelines.
Integrated trading systems for real-time operations.
Developed innovative solutions in fintech and e-commerce.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce software engineer with expertise in low-latency systems.

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Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProduct ManagementSoftware DevelopmentSystems Design

Other Skills

AlgorithmsArtificial IntelligenceC++CoachingCross-functional Team LeadershipData StructuresDockerGitGoGo (Programming Language)JavaKubernetesLinuxMentoringMySQL

About

Engineering leader with 7+ years of experience delivering mission-critical, low-latency Tier-1 systems with high availability across fintech, e-commerce, SaaS, and automotive. Expert in leading teams, scaling cloud-native platforms, and aligning technology with business goals to drive innovation and operational excellence.

Experience

Wise

3 roles

Engineering Manager, FX Risk & Market Data

Promoted

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos

Leading three Tier 1 domains - Market data, FX Risk, and FX Arbitrage, delivering low-latency, high-availability systems for customer pricing, risk management, exposure tracking, and arbitrage protection.
✔ Lead the design and development of mission-critical FX data pipelines (Bloomberg, LSEG, XE), delivering tick-accurate FX rates that power 50+ services, enabling £150+ billion in money movement.
✔ Lead the design and development of FX risk services monitoring £400M daily trades in 40+ currencies, ensuring reliability and low latency, in collaboration with Data Science, Risk and Analytics.
✔ Lead the design and development of real-time arbitrage tracking systems to detect and block users exploiting Wise’s 24-hour fixed rate promise, preventing over £1.5 million in potential annual losses.
✔ Led technical and product vision, delivering scalable solutions and driving strategic priorities. Fostered cross-functional collaboration to accelerate growth and enhance team effectiveness.
✔ Coach junior and senior engineers, lead onboarding initiatives, manage the performance and professional growth of reports, and conduct interviews at all levels to build high-performing teams.

Engineering ManagementProduct ManagementStrategic PlanningSoftware DevelopmentCoaching

Senior Software Engineer, FX Trading Infrastructure

Aug 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

The FX Trading Infrastructure team manages Wise’s trading systems, enabling £400M daily FX trades across 40+ currencies and instruments, including Outrights, NDFs, and FX Swaps on single and multi-dealer platforms.
✔ Led a year-long, cross-functional project across multiple tribes to close a Tier-2 payout sanctions screening gap, eliminating regulatory risk and £2.2 million in potential fines.
✔ Integrated Deutsche Börse’s 360T into Wise’s FX trading infrastructure via SST and FIX, enabling real-time internal trade reflection and £4.2M in annual cost savings through multi-dealer execution.
✔ Enhanced Wise’s FX order management system to handle thousands of real-time transactions daily and manage liquidity across global currencies with volumes in the hundreds of millions.
✔ Architected support for complex instruments including Outrights, Swaps, NDFs, ensuring consistent pricing and execution across asset classes.
Technologies - Java 17, Python, Spring Boot, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Kibana, Docker, Kubernetes, Spock, Git

Cross-functional Team LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentSystems DesignProduct ManagementMentoring

Senior Software Engineer, Openbanking

Jul 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr

The Open Banking team manages the end-to-end pay-in journey for customers across Europe and the UK, leveraging Open Banking to process over £1 billion in transactions through Wise’s systems.
✔ Led the design and implementation of the QR code system for the UK and Europe, boosting conversion by 1.3% and pay-in volume by 12.5%, driving £600 million in new annual payments.
✔ Launched connected accounts and one-click payments on the Wise mobile app via open banking VRP APIs, increasing feature coverage by 65.9%, driving £40 million in new annual payments.
✔ Integrated Starling bank and Revolut bank to the UK payin flow via open-banking PISP APIs, driving £16.8 million and £7.5 million in new annual payments, respectively.
✔ Integrated Starling bank and Revolut bank to the UK payin flow via open-banking PISP APIs, driving £16.8M+ and £7.5M+ in new annual payments, respectively.
✔ Built a framework to track consent creation failures, analyzed data in Snowflake, and developed a real-time Superset dashboard used by teams and senior leadership.
Technologies - Java 17, Spring Boot, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Kibana, Docker, Kubernetes, Spock, Git

Cross-functional Team LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentSystems DesignProduct ManagementMentoring

Zalando se

Software Engineer, Finance Automation

Apr 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Berlin, Germany

The Finance Automation team managed dynamic pricing for millions of SKUs across 20+ countries and 25+ currencies, ensuring accurate and efficient global operations
✔ Led the redesign of core pricing system with distributed, event-driven architecture, reducing service count and tripling throughput. Improved system resilience, maintained low latency, and high availability.
✔ Architected a resilient event aggregator service for high-volume data ingestion from multiple queues, leveraging event sourcing to provide a real-time view of Zalando’s inventory for pricing.
✔ Extended pricing systems to support new markets and currencies, facilitating Zalando Off-Price launches in Sweden and Finland.
✔ Onboarded new hires in the team, providing guidance and support for accelerated growth and integration.
Technologies - Go, Redis, PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Lightstep, Scaylr, Git.

Pix4d

2 roles

Software Engineer, Geospatial Photogrammetry

Apr 2020 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr · Berlin, Germany

I worked with a team of researchers, scientists, and computer vision experts to develop the next generation of Photogrammetry software for drone mapping.
Pix4Dmatic - 3D Photogrammetry on large-scale datasets with survey grade accuracy.
✔ Built a new product for a new business vertical of Geospatial photogrammetry.
✔ Developed four stable and six beta releases for Windows and MacOS (including v1.0)
✔ Implemented core features around optimization, file system, processing, and export in C++.
✔ Extended perftracker infrastructure to benchmark performance and report key metrics.
Technologies - C++17, Python, Javascript, boost, Qt, QML, Conan, GMock, Concourse CI, Git.

Software Engineer, Emergency Response & Public Safety

Jun 2019 – Mar 2020 · 9 mos · Berlin, Germany

I worked in two teams for different verticals, was the founding team member for the Emergency Response vertical, and was a shared contributor to the agriculture mapping business.
Pix4Dreact - 2D fast mapping software for Emergency response and Public safety.
✔ Led the development and release of Pix4Dreact for a new business vertical of the company.
✔ Developed the product from the initial concept to two global releases (v1.0 and v1.1).
✔ Implemented core features around authentication, licensing, export, and notification.
✔ Built infrastructure to handle application crashes, inconsistent states, and project failures.
✔ On the front end, implemented the complete project view of the software.
Pix4Dfields - Agriculture mapping, aerial crop analysis, and digital farming.
✔ Worked on two global releases of the software (v1.6 and v1.7) for Windows and MacOS.
✔ Implemented client-side authentication pipeline to support yearly licenses for the product.
✔ Created an activity tracking service to push in-app user interactions to Mixpanel servers.
✔ Redesigned multiple backends, services, and components to resolve technical debts.
Technologies - C++14, Python, Javascript, boost, Qt, QML, Couchbase, GMock, Bamboo CI, Git.

Preh car connect gmbh

Software Developer, Text to speech

Aug 2018 – May 2019 · 9 mos · Dresden, Saxony, Germany

I worked on the text-to-speech service of the MIB3 system, deployed across Volkswagen Group vehicles, including Volkswagen, Audi, Škoda, and SEAT models worldwide.
✔ Developed a robust online cloud module for text-to-speech services and enhanced system stability by identifying and resolving critical race conditions and threading bugs in the embedded service.
✔ Developed a standalone desktop GUI application that packages services into a single binary, provided to internal and external teams for testing the text-to-speech binary.
✔ Created end-to-end tests with GMock and GitLab CI, increasing coverage to 90%.
Technologies - C++14, Java 11, Embedded systems, GMock, Gitlab CI, Git.

Magnitude software, inc

Software Development Intern

Feb 2018 – Jun 2018 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, India

I am the developer and maintainer of the Apache-Drill driver. Apache-Drill is an open-source software framework for interactive analysis of large-scale datasets inspired by Google BigQuery.
✔ Led the integration of third-party BI tools like Tableau and PowerBI to Apache-Drill JDBC driver.
✔ Implemented API endpoints for multiple SQL-based ODBC(C++)and JDBC(Java) drivers.
✔ Managed the release pipeline of the driver across platforms (Linux, MacOS, and Windows).
✔ Set up infrastructure to automate driver configuration and deployment across platforms.
Technologies - Java 8, Python, SQL, Apache-Drill, JDBC, ODBC, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, Jenkins, Perforce.

Adwyze

Backend Development Intern

Jun 2017 – Jul 2017 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Clarisights (formerly Adwyze) is an online decision platform that provides real-time, interactive, and contextual reporting for high-performance marketing teams.
✔ Redesigned the tagging system of the platform to create tags on real-time ad objects.
✔ Fetched data from multiple ad and analytics channels like Google Analytics and Mailchimp.
✔ Created a dynamic query parser to evaluate and create tags from nested query expressions.
✔ Implemented multi-level unit and integration tests in Rspec following (TDD) approach.
Technologies - Ruby On Rails, MongoDB, RSpec, Jenkins, Git.