Prashant K. S.

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in microservices architecture and cloud-native systems.
Proven track record in building high-throughput data pipelines.
Strong background in security and performance tuning.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in SaaS and Cloud Computing solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesCloud ComputingData EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentSecurity

Other Skills

API designAPIsAWSAgileAgile EnvironmentAlgorithmsAngularJSApache KafkaApache PulsarApplication SecurityAzureBuilding ServicesBurp SuiteCSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)

About

Backend/Platform Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing and building large-scale, cloud-native, distributed systems. Skilled in microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and high-throughput data pipelines using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Pulsar, and AWS. Strong expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Helm), observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk), performance tuning, and secure coding practices. Experienced in CDC pipelines, ETL frameworks, API design, and integrating heterogeneous data sources into enterprise data platforms. Adept at driving reliability, scalability, and automation across complex engineering environments. Previously contributed to large-scale data and integration platforms at Informatica and HPE R&D, currently driving Salesforce Platform development, focusing on scalable integrations, automation, and high-availability enterprise workflows and hold a B.Tech degree from IIT Guwahati.

Experience

Salesforce

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Industries Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Mulesoft
Developed microservices for traffic migration from MuleSoft to Falcon infrastructure, ensuring zero downtime and safe change compliance.
Built AWS Step Function pipelines to automate configuration updates, orchestrating migration workflows impacting 200+ services between MuleSoft and Salesforce Falcon.
Built Kubernetes (K8S) batch jobs to execute controlled migration scripts under strict change management compliance, enabling secure data replication and cutover during database migrations for over 100+ databases.
Collaborated cross-functionally with DevOps, Infra, Application, SRE teams to ensure observability, rollback safety, and audit compliance during service transitions.
Build microservices using Spring Boot and Apache Kafka to ingest Engagement Events from Email, SMS, and WhatsApp messaging channels into the Salesforce Data Platform for Marketing Cloud.
Developed APIs to orchestrate E2E email sending pipelines using dynamic email configurations, integrating with downstream send services and emitting events for delivery tracking.
Spearheaded onboarding of new microservices from development to production.
Design and construct features for a Data Processing Pipeline, allowing Salesforce customers in the banking, insurance, and retail sectors to deploy pipelines according to their specific use cases for Industries Cloud.
Develop troubleshooting tools for monitoring data propagation in Data Processing Pipelines and implementing solutions for known failures using LLM APIs.
Establish integration with the Salesforce Data Platform to create a cohesive customer experience.
Support on-call for the services owned by our team.

microservicesAWSKubernetesSpring BootApache KafkaMicroservices+1

Informatica

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Cloud Mass Ingestion
Build connectors to ingest data from application/database sources like MongoDB, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, ServiceNow etc. to data warehouses like Snowflake, S3, etc.
Design APIs to fetch data and manage meta-data from different sources within Informatica’s iPaaS.
Design microservices to capture incremental changes in data and schema at the source.
Implement concurrency in data fetch APIs to improve performance by 80%.
Enable TLS Communication for connecting to different sources.
Build a high-performance ETL pipeline using the LMAX disruptor library.
Research on various application/database sources to extract data.

ETLAPIsmicroservicesMongoDBSnowflakeData Engineering+1

Micro focus (formerly hp / hewlett packard enterprise)

Software Designer II

Aug 2019 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

IT Operations Management
 Design and develop features for a data aggregation platform which is a unified big data platform for
ITOM products.
 Build APIs using Spring Boot & Ratpack to support data ingestion at very high rate (50Mb/s).
 Build data processing pipelines using stream-processing software like Apache Pulsar.
 Enable monitoring using Grafana & Prometheus in existing microservices.
 Analyze and fix performance issues in Java/Spring Application & test performance benchmarks with
JMeter.
 Fix security vulnerabilities (XSS, SQL Injection, DoS, Input Validation) & enable TLS communication
between services in existing product.
 Use Terraform templates to create infrastructure for deployment on AWS.
 Build docker images for microservices and deploy on Kubernetes using Helm Charts on AWS.
 Developed a holistic understanding of product, handle customer escalations and delivered fixes.
 Skills: Kubernetes, Spring, Hibernate, OOPs, Apache Pulsar, Microservices, Docker, JUnit, REST APIs,
Web Security, AWS, TDD, Terraform

Spring BootApache PulsarGrafanaPrometheusTerraformCloud Computing+1

Hewlett packard enterprise

Software Engineer II

Sep 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

1. Designed and developed new products from scratch and features for Operations Bridge Suite in IT Operation Management MicroFocus
2. Technologies used : Java, Groovy, Grails, Spring and Angular JS.
3. Played the role Security Champ for the team to look after security vulnerabilities in existing products and review features in progress from security perspective.
4. Developed a holistic understanding of product
5. Handled customer escalations and delivered fixes.

JavaGroovySpringAngularJSSoftware DevelopmentSecurity

Maq software

Software Intern

May 2015 – Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Worked on Web API 2.0 and hosted it on Azure that will be used by Windows 8 App Portal to get Live Tile Data from On-premises resource of Client's Network

Web APIAzure