Prakhar Kumar

About Prakhar Kumar

Detail oriented full stack developer with a passion in infrastructure engineering. I work with golang and nodejs to create backends and react with typescript for building frontends for websites. In my free time I explore automating tasks using DevOps tools like ansible etc and write scripts to provision infrastructure in AWS Cloud.

Experience

1. Back End Developer

   Soctr

   Feb 2024 — Present

   Devised over 100 CRUD APIs with advanced features such as pagination, searching, and filtering based on user tags and popularity; improved user engagement by delivering personalized content experiences for improved retention. Created a real-time market analysis system to deliver updates every 5 minutes on stock performance metrics such as advances, declines, and unusual volume based on the latest quote data from over 500 stocks. Optimized the payment processing module by reducing transaction latency from five seconds to under two seconds through effective integration techniques; enhanced overall user satisfaction with expedited subscription confirmations. Integrated streaming service functionality by generating secure tokens for retrieving video data from the CDN, calculating metrics such as ratings and views, resulting in a 30% increase in statistics calculation. Managed the lifecycle of more than 5 microservices through rigorous testing and optimization efforts; developed new features while addressing critical bugs to achieve enhanced API performance metrics exceeding previous benchmarks. Designed a notification scheduling system for the admin team, resulting in 100 app notifications delivered monthly and bringing user traffic to the app. Spearheaded integration of an advanced logging system into existing backend architecture that captured critical performance metrics for over 50 APIs; this innovation reduced debugging time by approximately two hours per week. Mentored 2 junior interns and helped in getting up to speed with the project.

Education

• Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi

  Master of Technology - MTech

  2021 — 2023

• University of Petroleum and Energy Studies

  Bachelor's degree

  2016 — 2020