Prathap Chowdary

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building scalable backend systems.
  • Proficient in cloud technologies and data engineering.
  • Strong experience in CI/CD and DevOps practices.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Software Engineer with expertise in Fintech and SaaS industries.

Contact

prathap.choudhury@gmail.comLinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Backend EngineeringCloud InfrastructureData EngineeringCloud Data PlatformsInfrastructure EngineeringDatabase ManagementDevopsSoftware Development

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon DynamodbAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache SparkApache ZooKeeperArgoC#CLICouchbaseData LakesData StructuresData WarehousingDatadogDockerFacebook API

About

Software engineer with 13 years of experience in designing and developing distributed & scalable applications. Worked with startups and big product firms in E-Commerce, Adtech, Hyperlocal and Fintech as backend/platform/infra engineer. Key Responsibilities —————————— • Building peak-performing teams and achieving cross-functional business objectives. • Solving complex performance problems and architectural challenges • Optimisation of the system for scalability and performance improvement • Ownership - right from requirement gathering and design to product deployment • Growth and performance hacks • Collaboration with management, product, QA, UI/UX teams Key Skills ————— • Backend engineering - Java, C#, Spring, Play frameworks. • Data engineering - Python, Scala, Spark, Delta Lake, Snowflake, Argo, Hadoop, Flink and other apache frameworks • SQL and NoSQL - MySql, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Couchbase, MongoDB, CouchDB, Cassandra. • Cache - Redis, Hazelcast, Memcache, Kyoto etc. • Infra/Devops & Platform engineering - AWS, Gitlab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, ELK, Grafana, Datadog, Athena, Lambda etc. Implementation of Gitlab CI/CD, kubernetes stack at org level. • Event management systems - RabbitMQ, Kafka, Amazon SQS. • Good understanding of distributed systems, design and architecture. • Strong mathematical background, algorithmic thinking and analytical skillset • Working experience with social media APIs (Twitter - GNIP, Facebook Ads) and Web crawlers. • Real quick in developing/integrating third-party APIs using REST/SOAP/gRPC and BI tools (Looker).

Experience

Salesforce

Lead Member of Technical Staff

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Customer Identity and Access Management (IAM)
C#JavaDockerKubernetesMicrosoft SQL ServerAmazon Web Services (AWS)+2

Arcesium

2 roles

Principal Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2023 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Building next generation of data platform for hedge funds world around post trade technology. Leveraging Databricks, Snowflake, AWS Athena, Spark, Java, Python, Argo workflows, AWS, Kubernetes.
ScalaData WarehousingSoftware DevelopmentArgoJavaSQL+7

Technical Lead

Aug 2020 – Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Arcesium designs advanced data, operations and analytics for hedge fund industry. I design and develop applications involving huge datasets at scale.
  • Team#2: General ledger and accounting team, focussed on accounting & reconciliation product stack.
  • Building accounting applications leveraging Java, Spring, SQLServer
  • Building Kubernetes deployment stack and Gitlab CI/CD migration
  • Team#1 : Platform engineering & infrastructure team, focussing on SDLC stack and alerting & monitoring systems.
  • Building & enabling Gitlab CI/CD platform
  • Application configuration management
  • Database deployments
  • Helping improving developer productivity
JavaAmazon Web Services (AWS)CLIPythonMicrosoft SQL ServerPostgreSQL+9

Near

Lead Product Engineer

Mar 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Near is the world's largest source of intelligence on people and places. Being a platform engineer, my responsibility includes building strong foundation for various products and services with scale and security.
  • I built platform services at Near, which were being used by all the developers in their daily work at Near. I did take care of real time bidder (Ad service platform), services dealing with high throughput, low latency and fault tolerance. These applications serve billions of requests each day (hundreds of web nodes, tens of data stores dealing with more than 200k QPS across 4 datacenters).
  • Tech stack: Java, Python, CouchDB, MongoDB, Redis, Kyoto, Memcached, Spark, Hadoop, AWS stack.
ScalaUnit TestingLogical ReasoningData WarehousingSoftware DevelopmentJenkins+5

Alibaba group

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2018 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr

Unit TestingLogical ReasoningData WarehousingSoftware DevelopmentCLISoftware Design+2

Software Engineer

Jan 2016 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Majorly worked on two different teams during my tenure here:
  • Team#1: Itemmaster/SellerX
  • Worked on building product information management and Seller experience projects. The service(s) facilitates creating/updating and maintaining life cycle of products across different platforms like Finance, Warehouse and Commerce.
  • Team#2: Fraud detection & Payments/Coupons/Discounts
  • Worked on several use cases to prevent fraud on the portal. Also involved in building various internal services used by marketing and ops teams.
  • Tech stack: Java, Play, PostgresSql, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, ELK
Logical ReasoningSoftware DevelopmentSoftware development

Tapzo

Java Engineer

Dec 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • 1. Worked on Food ordering/apparel shopping flow over chat application and implemented highly scalable NEWS feature on app for user engagement.
  • 2. Worked on message queuing (RabbitMQ), NoSQL (Redis, Couchbase, ElasticSearch)
  • 3. Worked for enterprise applications using J2EE(Struts, Spring, JPA/Hibernate) and MySQL
  • 4. Worked on Real-time push notifications using faye and pubsub
  • 5. Worked on GNIP for Twitter data stream to fetch near real time tweets/DMs
  • 6 .Worked on different APIs (Dominos API, Full contact API etc) to enhance products of helpchat.
Logical ReasoningSoftware DevelopmentSoftware development

Syntel

Software Engineer

Aug 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · Chennai

  • 1. Coding for Allstate web application using Spring and Hibernate.
  • 2. Helping testing team in developing Selenium script for functional testing.
  • 3. Worked on Apache POI, Swings in developing different tools based on requirement.
Logical ReasoningSoftware DevelopmentSoftware development

Education

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Bachelor of Technology — Information Technology

Jan 2008 – Jan 2012

Sri vivekananda junior college

Intermediate(+2) — Maths and Sciences

Jan 2006 – Jan 2008

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