Vivek Prakash

Senior Software Engineer

Sunnyvale, California, United States16 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

Expertise in web and mobile application development.
Significant contributions to Google TV and Google My Business.
Proficient in multiple programming languages and technologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a versatile software engineer with expertise in SaaS and mobile technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Web DevelopmentDistributed SystemsDatabasesAndroid Development

Other Skills

AJAXASP.NETAdobe Flash With AS3AlgorithmsApache SparkBash (Shell Scripting)C#.NETC/C++CGI/PYTHONCSSComputer SecurityCryptographyDOM (Python and JavaScript)HTMLHadoop

About

Application Developer, Website Developer, Network Application Developer and Mobile Application Developer in a wide variety of projects. Special Interest in Algorithms, Computer Security, Distributed Algorithms, Cryptography, Web Technologies and Mobile Technologies Specialties: C/C++, Java, C#.NET, VB.NET, Bash (Shell Scripting), Python 2.5, Python 3.0, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, Adobe Flash With AS3, XML, XSL, DOM (Python and JavaScript), PHP, CGI/PYTHON, Mod-Python, PSP, ASP.NET, Qt3.3, Qt4.0, MySQL, Sqlite3, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Windows Mobile SDK, Java ME

Experience

16 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Waymo

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · On-site

Amazon

Software Engineer

Sep 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

HadoopWeb DevelopmentApache SparkDatabasesDistributed Systems

Patreon

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2021 – Sep 2022 · 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Web DevelopmentApache SparkDatabasesDistributed Systems

Google

Software Engineer

Jan 2014 – Nov 2021 · 7 yrs 10 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

Assistant on Display
I worked with various vertical teams to integrate a new card rendering platform for the assistant on TV. This platform enabled better performance and a better User Experience and enabled us to add more verticals to the Google TV Assistant.
I worked with UX and various vertical teams to add multiple standard templates which allows existing as well as new teams to show their cards on Google TV assistant.
I worked with engineers on other display surfaces to have a uniform developer experience on all platforms, while keeping in mind challenges of each platform.
Impact: This effort lead to Google TV launching at par with mobile assistant while responding to user queries, a significant improvement to previous versions of google assistant on TV
Google My Business
I worked with the team to design storage apis for the consistent storage using spanner for the business locations.
I designed the search feature for large merchants to improve the search latency. This improved the overall latency of the search for large merchants by 10x
I designed the API for 3P merchants who manage large quantities of different kinds of listings. This was offered as a part of Google My Business API.
I designed and implemented a new dashboard for large merchants to provide easier access and better controls on the listings managed.

HadoopWeb DevelopmentAndroid DevelopmentDatabasesDistributed Systems

Gemini solutions india

Senior Software Developer

Sep 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Responsible For Efficient Development of Analytical Models

Databases

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Design Engineer

Sep 2009 – Aug 2012 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Complete UI Development for couple of products and their integration with the corresponding core components.
Complete development of couple of components related to network integration.

Android DevelopmentiOS