Prabhat Jena

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

13+ years of backend development experience.
Proven track record in leading complex system migrations.
Expert in driving architectural decisions for scalability.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused expert in Fintech, specializing in scalable microservices architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesBackend ArchitectureApi Design

Other Skills

Spring BootJavaPerformance OptimizationObservabilityDockerKubernetesWeb ServicesRESTful APIsSpring FrameworkDroolsRCA (Root Cause Analysis)ArchUnitMutation TestingAnthropic ClaudeComputer Assisted Coding Software

About

Java Tech Lead with 13+ years of backend development experience (8+ years in distributed systems) building and operating large-scale systems. Proven track record of owning high-traffic, revenue-critical services, leading complex system migrations, and driving architectural decisions that improve scalability, reliability, and developer efficiency. Trusted for production incident leadership, mentoring engineers and driving code quality. Core Competencies: Backend Architecture • Distributed Systems • Microservices • Event-Driven Design • Distributed Caching • API Design • Quality Engineering (testing, automation) • Cross-functional Delivery • Performance & Scalability • Observability & Incident Response (On-call, RCA) • Technical Leadership & Mentorship

Experience

13 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Paypal

2 roles

Member Of Technical Staff

Promoted

Jul 2021 – Mar 2026 · 4 yrs 8 mos

(Spot Award x 1)
As a tech lead,
Boosting user participation and retention by implementing ongoing rewards and promotional initiatives.
Leading a team owns 5 microservices. Driving the design and delivery of scalable, high‑performance solutions with microservices architecture.
Partnering with stakeholders to recommend and implement optimal application integration patterns to consume platform capabilities effectively.
Conducting in‑depth code reviews and delivering constructive feedback to uphold the highest standards of code quality and maintainability.
Diagnosing and resolving performance bottlenecks in alignment with organizational technical improvement initiatives.
Building, and maintaining components deployed via PayPal’s Console platform to the private cloud (production) and GCP (staging), with Docker and Kubernetes managed behind.
Spearheaded the externalization of RESTful APIs, ensuring alignment with industry best practices, comprehensive API documentation, and established API implementation standards.
Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure the highest quality of code.
Troubleshooting performance issues as part of organizational technical improvement goals.
Mentoring junior team members, providing technical guidance, and encouraging their professional growth.
Launched and drive a weekly Friday Learning thread on Slack to share practical engineering learnings, Java tips and best practices - fostering a culture of continuous learning across the team.

Spring BootJavaMicroservicesAPI DesignPerformance OptimizationObservability+1

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2017 – Jul 2021 · 4 yrs 5 mos

(Spot Award x 3)
Led the team to migrate 4 high TPM legacy (C++) components to brand new microservices and took them to production successfully without any customer impact and with ZERO LIVE bug by imposing various quality metrics for each component like unit/function test coverage, code quality, design principles for scalable solution, multilevel PR reviews, pre and post deployment validations.
Enhanced and maintained orchestrator services powers user activities while using PayPal as payment method using Java, Spring Boot, Microservices and ActiveMQ.
Designed and implemented RESTful APIs to expose functionality to internal and external clients.
Mentored junior team members, provided guidance on alternate approaches to solve a problem.
Imposed various quality metrics for each component like unit/function test coverage, code quality, design principles for scalable solution, multilevel PR reviews, pre and post deployment validations.

Web ServicesSpring BootMicroservicesRESTful APIsJavaAPI Design

Ebay

Senior Consultant (Altimetrik)

Jan 2016 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangaon Area, India

Worked for eBay as a Sr Consultant under payroll of Altimetrik India Pvt Ltd.
As a senior developer
Worked on owned features/use cases (Analyzing, Coding, Unit testing, JUnit Test Case writing)
Worked on both front-end and back-end modules
Defect fixing

Spring BootSpring Framework

Visa

Consultant (Altimetrik)

Jan 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangaon Area, India · On-site

Worked for VISA as a Consultant under payroll of Altimetrik India Pvt Ltd.
As an individual contributor I had the following responsibilities:
Worked on a risk engine that can allow/deny transactions from VISA Checkout based on user, device profile and other intelligence by providing the risk level/score.
I was responsible for making risk rule change by adding/modifying business rules using JBoss Drools and API changes as per product requirement.
Code coverage - Writing/modifying JUnit test cases for the impacted methods

Spring BootDrools

Citi

Associate Consultant (Infrasoft)

Jul 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

Worked as an associate consultant under payroll of Infrasoft Technologies.
Worked in both Web module and back end.
Used technologies like :
Struts 1.2, JDBC (SQL, Stored procedures), DHTML, REST Client, Apache POI API, XML