Praful Parashar

Director of Engineering

New Delhi, Delhi, India6 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led data ingestion pipeline improving customer insights.
  • Reduced API response times by 50% through optimization.
  • Streamlined moderation processes, cutting time by 90%.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Back-End Developer with strong machine learning capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Back-end DevelopmentMachine LearningSoftware Development Life Cycle (sdlc)Software Development

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAPI OptimizationAmazon Web Services (AWS)AndroidAngular4Blockchain Explorer DevelopmentBootstrapC++CeleryChat App DevelopmentClient Onboarding AutomationCollaborationCollaborative Problem SolvingCompetitor Data ScrapingContextual Translation System

About

I am a self-motivated developer with experience in several languages and technologies, building projects in back-end development with a keen interest in machine learning.

Experience

6 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 1 mo
Current Experience

Tata 1mg

Technical Lead

May 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Makemytrip

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer - 2

Nov 2024May 2025 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Built and led the data ingestion pipeline for OrbitAI, enabling personalised customer insights and improving chatbot query resolution time by 30%. Mentored 2 junior developers throughout the initiative.
  • Reduced API response times by 50% and cut infra costs by ($23/day) through optimisation, rate limiting, and implementing probabilistic-split metrics to distribute traffic and mitigate blocking issues.
  • Automated scraping of competitor data to support pricing optimisation, increasing customer retention and improving responsiveness to market dynamics.
  • Led the development of a unified translation framework, reducing localisation timelines by 10% and driving collaboration across content, moderation, and product teams.
  • Initiatives: Founded the Photography Club at Make My Trip and organised company-wide exhibitions & photowalks
Data Ingestion PipelineAPI OptimizationCompetitor Data ScrapingTranslation FrameworkBack-End DevelopmentMachine Learning

Senior Software Engineer - 1

Jul 2022Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Streamlined moderation processes by integrating multiple workflows, reducing processing time by 90%.
  • Built a contextual translation system with reverse lookup, reducing translation failures by 35%
  • Increased test coverage to ~90% from 30% using Pytest and Monkey patching, reducing production issues by 40%. Also established a dedicated dev environment and full tech stack, eliminating direct production deployments.
Moderation ProcessesContextual Translation SystemTest Coverage ImprovementBack-End DevelopmentSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Urbanpiper

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2021Jul 2022 · 9 mos

  • Responsible for developing and maintaining the Saas layer for upholding integration with Zomato, Swiggy and enterprise clients such as Pizza hut and McDonalds.
  • Optimised bulky and erroneous workflows using event driven architecture for data ingestion across services.
  • Lead a team of 5 developers for 8 projects across 3 countries
  • Generalised integration development and reduced completion time of new projects from 50 days to 7 days.
SaaS DevelopmentEvent Driven ArchitectureIntegration DevelopmentBack-End Development

Software Engineer

Aug 2019Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Optimized and automated a recurring client onboarding process of 3 weeks(10000 clicks) to 10 mins and a couple of clicks (menu extraction automation)
  • Exhaustive documentation to ensure smooth onboarding of incoming devs and established a onboarding framework.
  • Developing APIʼs for dashboard workflows and internal team management tools
Client Onboarding AutomationAPI DevelopmentBack-End Development

Infosys

Project Intern

Feb 2019May 2019 · 3 mos · Mysore

  • The internship included development of a chat app (web-based).
  • Development in advanced Java including Spring and Hibernate.
Chat App DevelopmentJava DevelopmentSoftware Development

Blockwala

Software Development Engineer

May 2018Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Developed a project, blockchain explorer, which facilitates a user to view their transactions in an interactive manner.
  • Developed and exposed multiple API's to facilitate other products of the firm in their working
  • The tech stack included - Django, PostgreSQL.
Blockchain Explorer DevelopmentAPI DevelopmentSoftware Development

Education

Jaypee Institute Of Information Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Science

Jan 2015Jan 2019

Delhi Public School Agra

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