Prashant Tholia

Director of Engineering

Jaipur, Rajasthan, India7 yrs 9 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • 10 years of experience in high-scale application development.
  • Led teams of up to 20 members in technical leadership roles.
  • Expertise in building enterprise-scale machine learning systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Food Tech expert with strong leadership in distributed systems and machine learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementMachine LearningTechnical LeadershipDistributed SystemsFull-stack Development

Other Skills

AWSAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsApache KafkaArtificial Intelligence (AI)Back-End Web DevelopmentCode ReviewCommunicationComputer ScienceContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Cross-functional Team LeadershipDesign PatternsEnglishGo (Programming Language)

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Profile Summary: - 10 years of total experience in building high-scale and complex applications. - 2 years of management and 4 years of technical leadership experience leading secure, quality-focused, high-performing 2 to 20-member teams. - 1 year of management and hands-on experience in building enterprise-scale machine learning and AI engineering systems. - Experienced in building and management of end-to-end machine learning pipeline, including data collection, cleaning, preprocessing, EDA, data splitting, model selection, training, tuning, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring. - 5 years of experience in building large-scale and highly available distributed systems. - Strong expertise in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including planning, system architecture and design, design review, development, code review, quality assurance, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD), performance monitoring and optimization, and maintenance. - Rich experience in a diverse range of technologies, including Java, Go, Node.js, Python in the backend, React, Angular in the frontend, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, S3, Redis in databases, and Apache Kafka in streaming and messaging systems. - Exceptional data structures and algorithms-based problem-solving skills - featuring in the top 0.6 and 0.9 percentiles of all competitive programmers globally on Codechef and LeetCode, respectively. - Exceptional cross-functional collaborator with a formal introduction in data science, product management, and user experience design through certifications from MIT, ISB, and HFI, respectively. - 5 years of experience in development using Agile methodologies. 1.3 years of experience as a Scrum Master of a 20-member pod. Strengths: Distributed systems, AI engineering, machine learning systems, microservices architecture, data structures & algorithms-based problem-solving.

Experience

Indeed

Software Engineering Manager

Dec 2023Sep 2024 · 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

  • Managed a team of 4 engineers to build and maintain match providers for employer-facing
  • recommendation systems.
  • Led review and simplification of the match provider portfolio, resulting in 15-25x increase in
  • relevant matches for non-english job markets, deprecation of two legacy services and a few API
  • endpoints in other services.
  • Led end-to-end design, development, and deployment of query understanding modules to identify jobseeker name intention in the employers search queries.
Engineering ManagementMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Rebel foods

2 roles

Associate Engineering Manager

Apr 2022Nov 2022 · 7 mos

  • Managed a 7-member full-stack development team to completely own the development and maintenance of high-scale (throughput: 250M+ requests/month) and highly available (> 99.99%, in 2/3 quarters in 2022) distributed systems.
  • Completely owned the backend and web-frontend development for orders, promotions, and customers modules for all D2C apps and websites.
  • Primary owners of notifications and alerts modules for the entire D2C group.
  • Led 20 engineers across teams to build the Group Ordering feature - multiple customers across single/multiple locations order food together through a single cart. Designed complete high-level architecture and backend low-level architecture. Implemented the critical notifications framework and other crucial cart functionalities.
  • Spearheaded initiatives to achieve > 30% drop in critical APIs’ latency through caching and reduced inter-service communications.
  • Acted as Scrum Master for 21-member D2C Ordering pod.
Technical LeadershipPerformance ReviewsSystems DesignEngineering ManagementDistributed SystemsPeople Development+3

Software Development Engineer - III

May 2021Mar 2022 · 10 mos

  • Led a team of 5 developers to develop and maintain the D2C orders, promotions, and customers services and their corresponding web assets.
  • Designed and led the development of large and complex projects, including All Services Migration To New Platform Service, Customer Segmentation, and Order Preparation Livestreaming.
  • Achieved a 25% drop in critical APIs' latency through code refactorings and reduced inter-service communications. Spearheaded initiatives to achieve a further 15% drop through database optimizations.
  • Organized 3 widely popular KT programs that shared knowledge about product concepts, technologies, and tools with the tech organization.
  • Acted as Scrum Master for 21-member D2C Ordering pod.
  • Conducted 75+ interviews for SDE-I/II/III/IV positions to contribute towards Rebel Foods' tech team expansion.
MySQLTechnical LeadershipReact.jsTeam LeadershipAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache Kafka+7

Unomer

Software Developer

Jun 2018Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India · On-site

  • Designed and developed complete backend system and administrative and analytics dashboards for a mobile app-based market research product.
  • Implemented backend and frontend integration for feature-rich administrative, analytics, and user dashboards for Unomer (core product).
MySQLReact.jsNoSQLNode.jsPHPMongoDB+3

Cnel india

Software Developer

May 2014Apr 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India · On-site

  • Solely built a map-based business aggregator platform that allowed users to add and manage their businesses, and customers to search for businesses within a specified radius.
  • Solely developed an AWS S3-based file hosting service that allowed customers to manage their hosted files and administrators to track and manage service usage.
  • Solely developed an SMS gateway that allowed customers to send SMSs to different countries using local SMS providers.
  • Owned numerous maintenance projects in e-commerce and event hosting domains.
MySQLTechnical LeadershipTeam LeadershipAmazon Web Services (AWS)PHPJavaScript

Spice labs

WAP Consultant

Jul 2009Nov 2009 · 4 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

  • Provided consultations for development of a WAP-site POC.
Spring FrameworkJavaJavaScript

Interra

Software Developer

Aug 2006Mar 2008 · 1 yr 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

  • Solely developed an SMS & MMS gateway from scratch by implementing TELNET protocol using C networking libraries to communicate with a modem. The gateway allowed users to send SMS or MMS through its web interface or API endpoints.
  • Implemented virtual click detection and event transmission module for a remote mobile testing solution that allowed users to conduct remote testing on a diverse and large set of mobile devices.
  • Implemented secure link generation, communication, & content download for a game-hosting platform that allowed customers to purchase games and receive secure download links on purchase.• Built web and desktop-based applications in diverse technologies including Java and C.
  • Developed numerous challenging and crucial POCs.
  • Achievements:
  • Spot Bonus Award for extraordinary effort in delivering a delayed project by the original deadline.
  • Rewarded with an opportunity to visit a client and present a POC within 6 months of joining as a fresh graduate.
MySQLSpring FrameworkJavaJavaScript

Education

Dhirubhai Ambani University

Bachelor of Technology — Information and Communication Technology

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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