Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr · India · Hybrid

• Focused on leveraging Generative AI to innovate talent acquisition strategies and enhance client experience. We help companies succeed by hiring great talent and retain/grow/retire them.

Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs · India · Hybrid

• I productionize Apps with AI 🧠. In Wipro Lab45 AI Platform for the observability. Works with Cloud, Data and AI to help clients with digital transformation.
• Build RAG using vector database, langchain and LLMs to bring context, enable security, responsible AI.
• Defining a new microservices based architecture strategy for cloud first data centric solutions
• Developing technologies to address cross cutting concerns for security, data and openness
• Upgrade security competencies and practice

Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 · 4 yrs · India · Hybrid

• Prasoon Kumar worked as a system architect for the Platform Services and libraries. Leading and driving multiple organization-wide initiatives focused on 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲, 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐩𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬, 𝐂𝐈/𝐂𝐃, and 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞. Created scalable and efficient solutions for a user base of75𝐌+ 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 handle traffic of 1 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐏𝐌.
• 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞
• Lead various performance initiatives across the organisation including re-writing non performant critical APIs across services, improving choking of node services and integrating Open Telemetry, New Relic integrations.
• 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲, 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 and 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
• Re-architected Applications and created disaster recovery strategies for critical components of the organisation, achieving 99.9% availability over a month and year.
• Automated recovery and creation of MongoDB clusters (11TB+ data), Cassandra, Kafka and Redis Clusters with monitoring and alerting setup for these clusters using Prometheus, M3DB, and Grafana hosted on Kubernetes.
• Designed and implemented a new metrics pipeline leveraging 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐮𝐬, 𝐌3, and 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚, reducing costs by $100,000 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 by transitioning away from 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡.
• Migrated Redis from sentinel/single-node setup to cluster, enhancing availability for services, handling over 100 million entries with zero downtime.
• 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐏𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬
• Designed a new analytics pipeline to handle frontend event data ingestion to BigQuery, processing 1 billion events/day. Achieved cost savings of $70,000 annually by replacing the old pipeline with a stack built using Golang.
• Built a pipeline with infra running on K8s processing batch data from MongoDB
• Built a CDC pipeline using Debezium, Kafka, Kubernetes, MongoDB.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs · India · On-site

• Prasoon Kumar worked as a senior engineering engineer manager with the Platform Group responsible for common services to the rest of Capillary Technologies. He worked on common API, Notification Platform etc. It is a key part of the international B2B SaaS technology offering. The cloud-based customer loyalty/customer engagement and e-commerce platform, Intelligent Loyalty helps numerous retail clients. It supports them in their omnichannel customer engagement. The infrastructure is hosted on Amazon's AWAS cloud.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr · India

• Prasoon Kumar worked as a consulting engineer with MongoDB. His motto was to make the clients of MongoDB succeed. He would do architectural health check, make recommendation for capacity planning, architecture. He also played the role of solution architect doing pre-sales role and evangelizing MongoDB across various geographies.
• Driving onboarding, enablement, success, go-live and healthy consumption of the workloads where the customer has made the decision to consume MongoDB
• Provide strategic direction, understand business goals, and define how MongoDB can be leveraged to drive innovation, competitive advantage, and business growth for client organizations

Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Prasoon Kumar worked on Justdial's foray into transaction platform from being a information one. He played an instrumental role in the launch of Justdial Deals, Justdial Data (B2B product), Justdial Restaurant Delivery to name a few. The same model was expanded to an umpteen number of verticals in the run up to the Justdial's IPO. He worked with various stakeholders in product management, engineering operations, the sales team and Justdial's end customers like business owners and end users to help achieve a success.
• He evangelized new, open-source technologies like nginx, MongoDB among the small, yet nimble engineering team to do a fast turnaround of a product.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Prasoon Kumar worked on Avaya Aura Manager and Avaya CEP (Complex Event Processing) Engine in Core Java as well as JSF (Java Server Faces).

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr · Greater Delhi Area

• Prasoon Kumar worked on the leading product and services freelancing site on bringing important project management capabilities for the employers as well as an improved rating system. He did this while setting up a new site in India and bringing important knowledge in the local location. The technology migration from the legacy ColdFusion was set to ASP.Net and SQL SQL from the new location.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr · Greater Delhi Area

• Prasoon Kumar worked on the new features leading to an improved career tool and assessment. This improved the monetization of the career assessment portal, while leading the the migration effort of LiveCareer's portal from Javascript, ASP and SQL Server 2000 to Javascript, ASP.Net and SQL Server 2005.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr · Greater Delhi Area

• Prasoon's role was that of the development manager and software architect to enhance key products of marketRx like survey builder, survey fielding and survey reporting.
• In addition, Prasoon had an operational manager role in getting surveys for the pharma companies like BMS, Pfizer etc.
• + Co-ordinate with US team to get the specs for the survey
• + Work with the development team here to get it posted on the web through an in-house survey builder.
• + Analyze the survey taken by doctors to produce meaningful inferences for the clients.
• The products contributed greatly to the company's performance, leading to a successful acquisition by Cognizant.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 · 1 yr · Greater Delhi Area

• Prasoon was responsible for technical architecture of various .NET and Java projects in esteemed clients like Avolent, EFTech's Clubnetwork.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 · 2 yrs · New York, United States

• We were a diverse group of innovators and developers, who created a high-performance, real-time trading platform in 2-3 years, which was handling 2% of NASDAQ trading volume within 6 months of its start. I closely worked with a sister company, Tower Research Capital, a leading trading company in the world. It used J2EE and ran on Weblogic.

Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Prasoon Kumar worked on C/C++ and Linux for embedded software, named Fiery™ image processor and printer.

Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Prasoon Kumar worked on Email Call center software in C++, Java, Perl languages.

Jan 1997 – Jan 1998 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Prasoon Kumar worked on important features for AutoCAD 14 release using C++ and MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes). He handled Integration with Microsoft Intelli-wheel single-handedly and received accolades for the same.