Prashant Bhargava

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 10 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building scalable systems and leading engineering teams.
  • Proven track record in AI and machine learning projects.
  • Strong leadership skills with a focus on team development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with strong leadership in software development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Architecture

Other Skills

AWSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaArtificial Intelligence (AI)Azure CloudAzure DevOpsC++Deep LearningEngineering LeadershipFirebaseFlaskGITHTMLJavaJavaScript

About

Prashant Bhargava brings experience in building highly scalable systems, team building, and leadership. He has a knack for solving deep technical problems using cutting-edge technologies and building high-quality products.

Experience

Apna

Director of Engineering - AI

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos

Bigbasket.com

Engineering Manager

Aug 2022Aug 2025 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Team LeadershipEngineering LeadershipEngineering Management

Pankhuri

Engineering Manager

Dec 2021Jun 2022 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Team LeadershipLeadershipEngineering Management

Success4, inc

2 roles

Director of Engineering & Product

Promoted

Jul 2020Nov 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

Team LeadershipEngineering Management

Engineering Manager

Feb 2020Jul 2020 · 5 mos

Team LeadershipEngineering Management

Y media labs

Technical Lead

Sep 2017Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Client: Stone Inc
  • Period: Dec'18- Present
  • Project Description–Stone is one of the largest payment processors in Brazil. They process an
  • average of 30 Million transactions/day and account for almost 25% of all payment transactions
  • in Brazil.
  • Environment: Spring Boot, Azure Cloud
  • Tools: GIT, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio Code, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka
  • Responsibilities:
  • Executing a plan to migrate a large Monolith into microservices which allows Stone to adapt
  • to increasing customer demands.
  • Implement the Microservices for Prepayments and Receivables module.
  • Automate the complete distributed architecture deployment.- Execute a migration plan to move the system from a private datacenter to Azure Cloud.
  • Leading the development team.
  • Client: Watani
  • Period: Sep'17-Dec'18
  • Project Description–Watani is an Intelligent Social City Guide and Advanced Insights Platform. It
  • is used by the Government of Saudi Arabia and its citizens to discover relevant government facilities nearby.
  • Since it’s launch Watani has over 1.5 Million registered users and around 600 thousand monthly active users and is being used actively by both the Government and the people of Saudi Arabia.
  • The system has been designed to be used by 33 million-strong population of Saudi Arabia
  • Environment: Spring Boot, OpenStack Cloud
  • Tools: GIT, Jenkins, Maven
  • Responsibilities:
  • Implementing the system for high availability and performance.
  • Setting up the production system on Saudi Telecom Cloud (STC), built on Open Stack, using
  • open source tools and optimizing it for high volume.
  • Implementing nearby places search with response time in milliseconds for 100s of thousands
  • of users simultaneously.
  • Leading the development team.
Spring BootAzure CloudGITAzure DevOpsVisual Studio CodeKubernetes+3

Artifacia

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2017Jun 2017 · 5 mos · India

  • Designed a system component to scrape accurate product image and product information, given just the product URL, with more than 90% accuracy.
  • Developed a Shopify app to show similar products recommendation for a store using a custom recommendation engine.
  • Developed an automated analytics framework from scratch to collect data from the web app
  • and google analytics.
  • Environment: Python, Flask, AWS
  • Tools: GIT
PythonFlaskAWSGITSoftware Development

Yappily

Full Stack Developer

Aug 2016Dec 2016 · 4 mos · India

  • Developed a chat application using Firebase as a NoSQL database to store a user's buddy list and messages.
  • Implemented notification system to send Email, SMS, and mobile notification, using Firebase Cloud
  • Messaging, to users, for increased user engagement.
  • Involved in the development of new APIs for client applications.
  • Environment: Python, Javascript, AWS
  • Tools: GIT, FIrebase
PythonJavaScriptAWSGITFirebaseSoftware Development

Hexagon capability center india

Senior Software Analyst

Sep 2013Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Involved in the development, enhancement, and testing of SmartSketch Drawing Editor, a 2D
  • graphics processing
  • Computer-Aided Design (CAD) application, majorly used by Engineering, Procurement &
  • Construction (EPC) companies worldwide.
  • Responsible for improvement in accuracy of conversion between native (SmartSketch) and
  • foreign (AutoCAD, Microstation) drawing format.
  • Language: C++
C++Software Development

Education

Texas McCombs School of Business

Post Graduate Program — Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning

Jan 2019Jan 2020

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Instrumentation and Control Engineering

Jan 2009Jan 2013

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