Prakhar Bhagat

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Reduced operational costs by 70-80% in ML operations.
Built high-impact conversational agents for financial crime investigations.
Delivered multiple successful platform products generating significant revenue.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningSoftware DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentCloud ComputingApi ManagementWeb DevelopmentSystems Integration

Other Skills

FastAPIMicrosoft AzurePostgreSQLLarge Language Models (LLM)Spring BootKubernetesAWSAzureNGINXOpenRestyMicroservicesContent ManagementJavaWebSphereSiebel

About

Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience in designing, developing, and productionizing platform/applications. Known for being highly adaptive, taking ownership of tasks, and paying attention to detail. Proficient in building optimized, ultra-low latency applications. Demonstrated success in improving the cost and time efficiency of existing products by 60-70%. Successfully incepted and delivered two platform products at SymphonyAI, both of which are attracting customers and generating significant revenue for the organization.

Experience

12 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

4 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Symphonyai

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Lead Software Engineer

Aug 2021 – Aug 2024 · 3 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

At SymphonyAI, I developed the PredictiveAI Platform, reducing costs and time for ML operations by 70-80%, and attracting ConcertAI as a subscriber. I played a key role in the GenerativeAI Platform's POC, deploying domain-specific conversational agents and enhancing features like multilingual support. Additionally, I built the Sensa copilot conversational agent, saving financial crime investigators 25% of their time per case, and received recognition at the ACAMS conference for this work.
PredictiveAI Platform (August 2021 - Present):
Developed an in-house ML pipeline product for efficient machine learning operations management.
The platform covers the entire ML workflow, including data labeling, algorithm selection, model training, tuning, optimization, and deployment.
Achieved a 70-80% reduction in costs and time for existing use cases.
ConcertAI subscribed to the product due to its outstanding performance.
GenerativeAI Platform (June 2023 - Present):
Contributed significantly to the initial POC for the product, laying the foundation for its development.
Developed and deployed domain-specific conversational agents backed by LLM, reducing users' time.
Currently adding and improving features such as multilingual support, chat history transfer, context management, and monitoring.
InvHub (Conversational Agent) (October 2023 - Present):
Built a finance domain conversational agent that helps financial crime investigators automate multiple tasks, saving 25% of investigators' time per case.
Successfully delivered the MVP for the Investigation Hub, gaining recognition at the ACAMS conference.
Received acknowledgment from peers and project managers for exceptional contributions to the project's success.

FastAPIMicrosoft AzurePostgreSQLLarge Language Models (LLM)Spring BootKubernetes+2

Here technologies

Senior Engineer

Jan 2018 – Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Here Solutions provides map and navigation services.
Focused on authentication and authorization for these services.
IAM Config Service (January 2020 - July 2021):
Developed a microservice for orchestrating authentication, authorization, billing/access-logging, rate-limiting, and other custom API features for billable services.
Utilized Spring Boot for application development and Kubernetes for orchestration.
Hosted on AWS and Azure, the service is cloud-agnostic.
Achieved significant improvement in the time required for hosting new billable services, reducing it from 6-7 days to approximately 4-5 hours (95%+ improvement).
HAPI Gateway (January 2019 - July 2021):
Built a home-grown API Gateway using NGINX, OpenResty, and NGINX Clojure.
Implemented authorization and authentication via ring handlers and managed cache with CloudFront.
Supported an average of 150 billion+ requests per month, ensuring the gateway added no more than 200 milliseconds of overhead to response time.
AAA Services (legacy) (January 2018 - January 2020):
Provided authorization, authentication, and accounting to all HLS services through a collection of services.
Implemented plan-based rate limiting.
Utilized Druid and PPC for maintaining plan, product, and user information, with Sentry 4 as the runtime enforcer.
Acted as a proxy for HLS services, maintaining very low latency (<100 milliseconds).

Spring BootKubernetesAWSAzureNGINXOpenResty+2

Ness ses

Senior Software Developer

Nov 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore · On-site

Worked on "Websites," an internal product of CDK Global, similar to WordPress, designed for car dealership websites. This product reaches 50% of car buyers in the US, creating websites for dealerships.
Open Platform Services (November 2015 - December 2017):
Developed and maintained core micro-services critical for content updates on dealership websites.
Ensured Service Level Agreement (SLA) for any request to these services was less than 100-200 milliseconds.
Websites (November 2015 - December 2017):
Reduced the spin-up time for new dealership websites to around 12 minutes.
Worked on decomposing the monolithic application and migrating the entire system to AWS.

AWSMicroservicesContent ManagementSoftware DevelopmentWeb Development

Tata consultancy services

System Engineer

Jul 2013 – Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

GE Healthcare provides diagnostics, therapeutics, and monitoring through intelligent devices, data analytics, decision support tools, and applications.
CF/EF/CDF/HFS Siebel Migration (July 2013 - August 2015):
Configured Java web applications for deployment on WebSphere server.
Migrated web applications from JBoss to WebSphere server.
Migrated Siebel ROW application to a Touchless environment, automating data flow and eliminating most human interventions.
Improved the average processing time for customer-initiated services by 40%.

JavaWebSphereSiebelSoftware DevelopmentSystems Integration