Prabhav Chawla
Member Of Technical Staff at Decagon
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPrabhav Chawla is a versatile software engineer with 9 years of experience spanning front-end, full-stack, and scalable microservices. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Decagon in San Francisco, he previously led Plaid's Network Foundations platform and scaled user experiences for Plaid Link, delivering measurable reliability and performance gains. At Citadel, he overhauled a risk-arbitrage service to 99.9% uptime, achieved tenfold speedups, and reduced API costs by 70%, earning an Engineering Excellence award. His background includes hands-on work across REST, gRPC, GraphQL, Kubernetes, and data-driven monitoring, plus leadership in building declarative authorization for GraphQL services. He holds a BS/MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and has contributed across several senior internships at Facebook and other tech firms. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he brings a track record of turning complex requirements into robust, scalable software and a strong foundation in both backend systems and frontend development.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, 98/100, High School, 98/100 at The Shri Ram SchoolB.S./M.S., Computer Science, Graduate GPA: 4.0/4.0, B.S./M.S., Computer Science, Graduate GPA: 4.0/4.0 at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (34)
typescript9
sensor9
react8
places-autocomplete8
android8
google-places-autocomplete8
react-native-ui8
ui-components8
google-places8
react-native7
ios7
cross-platform7
react-android7
ui-toolkit6
java6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GTBitsOfGood/gen-soln
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
A platform that connects volunteers and donors to non-profits both locally and nationally, and provides the tools that enable non-profits to manage volunteer opportunities and track donations.
Contributions:359 reviews, 195 commits, 224 PRs in 9 months
volunteersopportunitieslocallydonorsprofits
PC98/chatham_smart_map
Jan 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:8 PRs, 106 pushes, 89 branches in 1 year 3 months
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