Prakhar Asthana
Summary
Seasoned Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience and adept at leading cross-functional teams. Remarkable relationship building, decision making and communication skills. Known for best-in-class development and collaboration. Technical expertise in microservices, machine learning, distributed systems and scalable infrastructure.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Software Engineer
Google, Chrome
08.2020 - Current
- Lead design, development, improvement and rollout of code coverage generation pipelines(CI/CQ) for Chrome code across all major platforms and languages
- Launched a real time code coverage check for new changes in Chrome and spearheaded the adoption across different orgs in Chrome. Resulted in 5-10% improvements in code coverage across various platforms.
- Launched tooling to generate test coverage for a new feature. Crucial in cutting down Chrome release cycle from 6 to 4 weeks.
- Lead design and development of regression test selection module which uses ML to cut down test execution cost by 20%
- Drove major culture shift in Chrome in improving attitudes about test coverage. Managed stakeholders across many different orgs in Chrome and performing successful launches and landings of multiple features
- Implemented culprit detection and notification modules for Chrome performance monitoring
Software Engineer
Google, GTech Ads
11.2015 - 07.2020
- Designed & implemented microservices based architecture for quality assessment platform for business teams which helped them monitor quality of their vendor operations
- Implemented map-reduce pipelines which pull in DoubleClick / Ads / YouTube etc
- Data from various sources and transform it into semi-structured form for consumption by downstream systems
- Developed ML models to predict chances of error in a customer support ticket real time saving >$3M
- Member of Java readability team - responsible for maintaining the health of Google's codebase
Software Development Intern
Amazon
05.2014 - 07.2014
- Provided more robust access control over tax records of sellers by following Hierarchical Role Based Access Control approach
- Identified various use cases and implemented role assignment, role authorization and permission authorization using Access Management APIs
Research Intern
Indian Institute of Technology
05.2013 - 07.2013
- Worked with PhD candidates to generalize class cover problem, in which one is allowed to misclassify some points as long as one pays the associated penalty
- Proved polynomial time solvability of Prize Collecting Bipartite Weighted Vertex Cover problem
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
Ropar01.2015
Skills
Technical Skills
- JAVA, Python, Go, C
- Spanner, Datastore, Cockroach Db, BigQuery
- TensorFlow, Map-Reduce, GCP
- Unit Testing, Integration Testing
- Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture
- Scalability & Performance Optimization
Leadership and Collaboration
- Technical Leadership & Mentorship
- Cross-functional Team Collaboration
- Code Reviews & Best Practices
- Stakeholder Communication
- Strategic Roadmap Planning
Problem Solving and Innovation
- Complex Problem Solving
- Technical Debt Management
- Performance Tuning & Optimization
- Prototyping & Innovation
Timeline
Sr. Software Engineer
Google, Chrome
08.2020 - Current
Software Engineer
Google, GTech Ads
11.2015 - 07.2020
Software Development Intern
Amazon
05.2014 - 07.2014
Research Intern
Indian Institute of Technology
05.2013 - 07.2013
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
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