Prajwal Gaurav Sah — Software Engineer
Senior Backend Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems at Amazon (AWS) and Microsoft. At AWS OpenSearch, I lead high-impact initiatives across autoscaling, reliability, and infrastructure migrations—owning org-wide transitions, defining rollout strategies, and driving execution across teams. Delivered scalable, fault-tolerant systems with zero customer impact while reducing operational overhead and improving system stability. Previously at Microsoft, I designed event-driven architectures using Azure Event Hub and Cosmos DB to process high-volume workloads, improving performance, resilience, and cross-product integration at scale. Core strengths include distributed systems design, microservices architecture, scalability, reliability engineering, and leading complex migrations in production environments. Experienced in driving end-to-end ownership, influencing cross-team decisions, and building systems that operate reliably under real-world scale.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 11 yrs 6 mos
Skills
- Distributed Systems Design
- Reliability Engineering
- Event-driven Architecture
- Scalability
- Backend Engineering
Career Highlights
- Led high-impact initiatives at AWS OpenSearch.
- Designed scalable event-driven architectures at Microsoft.
- Expert in distributed systems and reliability engineering.
Work Experience
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
SDE-2 (1 yr 10 mos)
Microsoft
Software Engineer 2 (2 yrs 2 mos)
Software Engineer (1 yr 3 mos)
Start- Up
Senior Software Engineer (2 mos)
SAMSUNG R&D INSTITUTE INDIA - BANGALORE PRIVATE LIMITED
Senior Software Engineer (9 mos)
Software Engineer (1 yr 8 mos)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Summer Intern (2 mos)
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology
Student (3 yrs 11 mos)
Education
Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology
12th at Delhi Public School
10th at Mount Makalu Residential Higher Secondary School