Pralay Biswas

About Pralay Biswas

Software engineering lead with more than 14 years’ experience; with a decade at Amazon; proficient in designing, implementing, operating and maintaining large scale distributed systems and micro-services. Spearheaded the re-architecture of Amazon’s global supply-chain compliance platform. Always looking for a good opportunity to put my skills to use and improve - please reach out to me at: p••••••••@gmail.comI am passionate about mathematics, software architecture, distributed computing, economies of scale, search and information retrieval systems, design patterns and code. I am an avid proponent of software re-usability, but am always ready to roll-up my sleeves and invent. I love building stuff! My specialities are coming up with long-term (multi month/year) technical strategies spanning multiple business domains and development teams. Also skilled at breaking down long term strategies into shorter term tactical deliverables. I love cracking hard problems, and have a solid understanding of architectural patterns, technical tradeoffs, infrastructural and implementation costs. Since the last 3 years, I have advised and influenced senior-management and leadership, Sr. Engineering Managers, Principal Engineers, Product Managers, and business stakeholders on design, architecture, time/effort estimations, operational planning, and feature-prioritization to ensure high-quality on-time deliveries. Rated high on performance year-over-year; promoted to Sr. Software Dev in under 5 years.My key technical skills are: 1. Languages, tools and frameworks: Java (JDK8); Dependency Injection Frameworks: Spring, Guice; Libraries: Immutables, Google Guava, Apache Commons, Lombok, Jackson; Logging framework: Log4j, SLF4J, Logstash/Kibana; Test frameworks: JUnit5, JMockit, Mockito, AssertJ 2. Cloud Technologies (AWS): EC2, IAM, SQS, SNS, S3, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, Firehose, Kinesis, Redshift 3. Datastores: DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Oracle 4. Concepts: Large scale distributed system design, software architecture, object-oriented design, design patterns, data modeling, data storage design, data structures and algorithms, networking 5. Tools and source control: Git, Ant, Maven, Vim, IntelliJ, OmniGraffle, PlantUML, OmniPlan, Sublime Text, Eclipse 6. Platforms: Linux (RHEL, CentOS), macOS 7. Business Domains: Supply-chain, reverse-logistics, catalog, compliance/regulations, payments

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Remitly

   Oct 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

Education

• UC Irvine

  Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  Bachelor of Engineering, Information Sciences and Engineering

Skills

• Software Development
• Unix
• Big Data
• Algorithms
• Javascript
• Web Services
• Mysql
• Linux
• Scalability
• Java
• C++
• Data Structures
• Design Patterns
• Lucene
• Mapreduce
• Oop
• Perl
• Hadoop
• Shell Scripting