Surya Prakash — Senior Software Engineer

👋 Hi, I’m Surya Prakash—a Senior Software Engineer at Roku and a Full Stack Developer with 7+ years of experience, specializing in frontend engineering. I’ve collaborated with startups and scale-ups to build intuitive, high-performance web applications that delight users and drive business growth. 💡 What I Do Best Frontend Mastery: Architecting responsive, pixel-perfect UIs with modern tools like Vue.js, React/Preact, Redux, RxJS, and TypeScript. Full-Stack Fluency: Bridging frontend and backend systems using Node.js, PostgreSQL, Firebase, and RESTful APIs. Styling & Optimization: Leveraging Tailwind, Styled Components, Material UI, SASS/SCSS, and Jest for scalable, testable code. Startup Agility: Thriving in fast-paced environments, delivering MVPs, and iterating based on user feedback. 🛠️ Technical Toolbox Languages: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C++, HTML/CSS Frontend: Vue/React/Preact, Redux, RxJS, jQuery, Bootstrap Backend/DB: Node.js, SQL, PostgreSQL, Firebase Testing/QA: Jest, Cypress (optional: add if familiar) 🚀 Impact at Roku & Beyond Spearheaded frontend initiatives for Roku’s streaming platform, enhancing performance and user engagement. Optimized legacy codebases for startups, reducing load times by 30%+ and improving cross-browser compatibility. Built scalable admin dashboards, SaaS tools, and customer-facing apps used by 10,000+ monthly active users. 🌱 Always Learning I stay ahead of the curve with emerging trends like micro-frontends, serverless architectures, and WebAssembly. Outside of work, I contribute to open-source projects, mentor junior developers, and experiment with AI/ML integrations for side projects. 🔍 Open To Senior Frontend/Full Stack roles in innovative teams solving complex problems. Collaborations on startup ventures, SaaS products, or tools for developers. 📫 Let’s Build Something Great! If you’re passionate about clean code, user-centric design, or scaling apps for millions—let’s connect! Always happy to discuss tech, opportunities, or the future of streaming. #FrontendDevelopment #FullStack #ReactJS #VueJS #OpenToWork

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-Stack Developer specializing in B2C SaaS applications with a strong frontend focus.

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Experience: 7 yrs 10 mos

Skills

Frontend Development
Full-stack Development

Career Highlights

Led frontend initiatives at Roku, enhancing user engagement.
Developed scalable applications used by over 10,000 monthly users.
Expert in modern frontend frameworks and full-stack development.

Work Experience

Roku

Senior Software Engineer (1 yr 5 mos)

Zeta

Senior Software Engineer (6 mos)

Software Engineer 2 (3 yrs)

stck.me

Software Engineer (1 yr 6 mos)

Wit By Bit

Software Engineer (1 yr 5 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Heritage Institute of Technology

Surya Prakash

Senior Software Engineer

Bangalore, Karnataka, India7 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led frontend initiatives at Roku, enhancing user engagement.
Developed scalable applications used by over 10,000 monthly users.
Expert in modern frontend frameworks and full-stack development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-Stack Developer specializing in B2C SaaS applications with a strong frontend focus.

Contact

sprakash@roku.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Frontend DevelopmentFull-stack Development

Other Skills

API DevelopmentArchitectureBootstrapCC++CSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Code ReviewCompetitive ProgrammingComputer ScienceCross-browser CompatibilityCross-team CollaborationData StructuresData structure and AlgorithmsDebugging

About

Experience

7 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

1 yr 5 mos

Current Experience

Roku

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Led frontend development of the Content Management System (CMS) UI, empowering operations teams to manage 25M+ content items with enhanced metadata and artwork management tools.
Developed intuitive CMS ingestion interfaces as part of the Search and Recommendation teams, ensuring accurate content discovery and personalized user experiences.
Built dynamic, event-driven UIs for real-time content categorization, processing 1M+ daily updates based on genre, release year, content type, and language.
Designed ingestion workflows for 500+ partners, streamlining submissions of videos, metadata, artwork, and captions with custom transformation capabilities.
Delivered scalable, high-performance frontend solutions, supporting large-scale content operations with responsive, user-friendly experiences.

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Zeta

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2024 – Jan 2025 · 6 mos · On-site

Software Engineer 2

Jul 2021 – Jul 2024 · 3 yrs · On-site

Part of the platform and also risk management centre
Developed Risk center (Orcus) from scratch.
Written unit test cases for each component using the Jest framework.
Developed a Business component that is used throughout the organization.
Collaborated closely with backend engineers, product managers, designers, and business stakeholders to achieve high-quality results at a rapid pace.
Groomed and developed critical features for Zeta's frontend applications and internal projects.
Followed TDD, best code practices, and agile methodologies to make development and delivery efficient.
Worked on some Jenkins scripts to make the developer's life easier.
Worked on solutions for mocking APIs like Mockoon and MSW JS.
Worked on CLI tools to make development faster and also worked on the scaffolding part as well as some enhancements of the build process of the project using CLI.
Worked on Web Components to better understand frontend development.
Worked on some backend services in Node.js for the flagship project.
Tech stack includes JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Vue.js, React.js, and Web Components.

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Stck.me

Software Engineer

Jan 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos · India · Remote

Scrollstack is a part of Scroll Media. where creators can create their own content and earn.
Part of Scroll Media Tech Team
Developed Scrollstack.com platform where creators can create their own site(ScrollStack).
Developed Admin Panel for the ScrollStack Web App.
Developed Scroll.in platform where editors publish their article(Scroll).
Developed CMS of scroll.in website (internal for editor).
Involved in mentoring Juniors/freshers.
Tech/Tools used: Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, VueJS, Jquery, ReactJS.

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Wit by bit

Software Engineer

Jul 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Kolkata, West Bengal, India · On-site

Part of Wit By Bit Team.
Developed various apps like Labour compliance, Decorum, Quiz Show.
Performance optimization of multiple apps.
Involved in Mentoring freshers.
Participated in various knowledge sharing events.
Learn rest API and nodeJS express and other backend related things
Tech/Tools used: Javascript, Typescript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, ReactJS, PreactJS, ramdajs, Bootstrap, ReactStrap, Jest, postgresql, Sql, NodeJs, Firebase Apis

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