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Prabhath Balakrishnan

Monroe,WA

Summary

Software Engineer with 14+ years of experience leading large-scale platform modernization and building resilient backend systems. Expert in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices, with expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and real-time data pipelines. An experienced leader in driving architectural simplification, mentoring engineering teams, and aligning technical strategy with business growth. Strong track record of delivering measurable impact—cost savings, improved scalability and performance.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior(Staff) Software Engineer

Egencia LLC
12.2022 - Current
  • Re-architected Egencia’s global search platform in partnership with Principal Engineers and UX teams, unifying air, rail, car, and hotel into a single search API, along with modern React.js and GraphQL SDUI, enabling multi-modal trip search, and reducing redundant systems.
  • Delivered Cross-POS Rail Typeahead, unifying approximately 125k station records, along with ML-driven scoring and config overrides, launching international rail booking for the first time, and driving $500k in revenue in 6 months, with a $3 million annual impact.
  • Modernized the reporting platform into microservices with Redis caching and S3 storage, cutting page load times from 20 to 30 seconds to 4 to 5 seconds, reducing report generation time by 35%, and improving scalability. Implemented a template and report-sharing module to increase reusability.
  • Directed and mentored a team of 6 engineers, setting the technical roadmap, fostering best practices in system design and database strategies, and driving architectural simplification to lower latency and maintenance costs.

Senior Software Engineer

Nordstrom Inc
11.2018 - 11.2022
  • Architected and implemented Stock Ledger Correction pipeline: designed event-driven architecture using Kaka + Spring Boot with retry orchestrator, dead letter queue, and custom Idempotency API (Redis + DynamoDB locks).
  • Built a UI for stock-ledger corrections (3s SLA) for the product team, replacing manual Excel and Unix jobs, leading a 3-person Java team to full delivery, from requirements gathering to production.
  • Optimized event database costs: archived success events to S3 and purged stale failures, cutting costs from $64K/month → $38K/month (~40% savings).

Assistant Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services (Client: JCPenney)
06.2014 - 10.2018
  • Decomposed monolithic Pricing, Shipping, and Tax service (WebLogic) into microservices deployed on AWS Kubernetes, reducing response times from 400 ms to 95 ms and eliminating timeout-related 'Price Not Available' errors.
  • Designed asynchronous pricing updates using JMS, enabling near real-time product page updates and reducing service load.
  • Mentored a team of 4 engineers in Java/Spring Boot, guiding the migration to microservices.
  • • Re-engineered J-Time batch job (17 hours runtime → 48 minutes) via multithreading, algorithm optimization, and HashMap-based lookups. Enabled business teams to re-run scheduling simulations multiple times per day, instead of over several weeks.

Systems Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services (Early Experience)
07.2012 - 05.2014
  • Developed the Reporting Module for Michael's Stores’ Pricing Web Application, delivering end-to-end functionality.
  • Provided application support for Target Corporation’s Inventory Management System, resolving critical bugs to improve stability and accuracy.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

NSS College of Engineering
Kerala, IN
07-2009

Skills

  • Leadership System Architecture Java/Spring Boot Microservices Kafka AWS Kubernetes GraphQL Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB Redis Observability (Datadog, Splunk, New Relic) CI/CD Agile

Timeline

Senior(Staff) Software Engineer

Egencia LLC
12.2022 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Nordstrom Inc
11.2018 - 11.2022

Assistant Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services (Client: JCPenney)
06.2014 - 10.2018

Systems Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services (Early Experience)
07.2012 - 05.2014

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

NSS College of Engineering

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