Prakhar Tripathi

Software Engineer

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India7 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

7+ years in backend engineering with scalable systems.
Proven track record of driving significant profit increases.
Expertise in microservices and event-driven architecture.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in scalable systems for the Travel and Fintech industries.

Contact

prakharsamiksha@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesGraphqlJava

Other Skills

AWSAlgorithmsAmazon AuroraAmazon DynamoDBAndroid DevelopmentApache KafkaBack-End Web DevelopmentBackend IntegrationsBootstrapCircuit BreakersContact Management ServiceData StructuresDesign PatternsElasticsearchGit

About

Backend Engineer with 7+ years of experience building scalable, distributed systems using Java, Kotlin, and Spring Boot. Skilled in microservices, event-driven architecture, REST/GraphQL APIs, and cloud technologies like AWS.Experienced in system design, caching, search, and production-grade service development.

Experience

7 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Expedia group

2 roles

Software Development Engineer III

Promoted

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Led backend development for the revamped Flights Details Page, implementing an interrupt-driven flow for paid seat and bag selection—projected to drive a $4–5M annual gross profit uplift.
Built and scaled GraphQL services enabling seamless communication between backend, frontend, and third-party APIs for flight search, seat selection, and baggage flows.
Developed One-Click Fare Upgrade functionality, incorporating dynamic fare validation and contextual upsell logic—resulting in $257K in incremental gross profit.
Co-designed and maintained GraphQL schema contracts for server-driven UI, supporting scalable, backend-controlled cross-platform rendering.
Owned production backend services, with responsibilities including observability, alerting, service reliability, and incident response automation.
Actively mentored junior engineers in architecture reviews, best practices, and scalable design implementation.

GraphQLAWSMicroservicesService ReliabilityObservability

Software Development Engineer II

Jul 2021 – Jul 2024 · 3 yrs

Played a key role in a cross-functional initiative to onboard ancillary seat and baggage services, driving backend integrations that contributed to a $15M/year increase in gross profit.
Designed and implemented the baggage purchase rollback flow to ensure timely refunds in case of booking failures—boosting customer trust and reducing support workload.
Developed and maintained scalable, fault-tolerant microservices for seat and baggage selection within booking workflows, with emphasis on idempotency and system reliability.

MicroservicesBackend IntegrationsSystem Reliability

Paytm

Software Development Engineer

May 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · Remote

◦ Designed and developed a rule-based, generic OTP microservice adopted company-wide, supporting peak traffic of 5000TPS during high-volume events like IRCTC Tatkal bookings and Dream11 payments, resulting in improved reliability and reduced OTP failures.
◦ Built and scaled a distributed Contact Management Service enabling syncing, searching, and enriching of user contacts — leveraged by Referral, Profile, and Notification systems to drive user acquisition and engagement. The service handled 6000 TPS, 5TB+ data volume, and delivered read latencies under 50ms.
◦ Optimized Elasticsearch and Redis usage for faster lookups and scalable ingestion, resulting in a 30% reduction in query response times under heavy load.
◦ Worked cross-functionally to define service contracts, enforce data consistency, and ensure backward compatibility across dependent teams.

OTP MicroserviceContact Management ServiceElasticsearchRedisMicroservices

Samsung electronics

Software Engineer

Jun 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Optimized samsung gallery application using leakcanary, blockcanary and android profiler.
Developed a desktop application in Java which can categories real time logs on the basis of log type, which helps app developers to keep an eye on log generation by their application.
Worked on Mobile remote access application which helps developer to test (View and Control) their application on remote devices located at different R&D centers.
Developed a web portal on Spring for Mobile Remote access system which helps users to take reservation of remote devices.
Developed a windows web service which enable users to share their android device ADB interface across the Samsung network.

JavaSpringAndroid Development