Ashu Prasad
Application Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshu Prasad is an Application Engineer and SRE with 9 years of experience building resilient, high-performance systems across financial services and cloud-native environments. He drives reliability and observability initiatives at Capital One, leveraging DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK and automation with Ansible and Python to reduce disruptions and shorten incident recovery. Ashu has designed CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, operated Kafka-backed ETL workflows, and implemented AWS data solutions including Lambda, Glue, SQS and RDS from his work at BMO and Bank of America. Comfortable across Kubernetes, Docker, Java and Python, he combines a CS and MIS background with a practical focus on production-grade monitoring and scalable deployments. Beyond day-to-day engineering, he contributes to the tech community through articles on NLP and time series forecasting, reflecting a persistent interest in applying ML techniques to operational problems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Management Information Systems General, Master of Science - MS Management Information Systems General at University of Illinois ChicagoBachelor of Technology Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science at SRM IST Chennai
English, Hindi
Github Skills (15)
javascript-notes8
javascript6
youtube6
aws-cdk6
react6
tower5
docker-compose4
docker4
nodejs4
lambda-functions4
ansible4
python4
shell3
api-gateway2
localstack2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
prasadashu/Rock-Paper-Scissor-Playpal
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
prasadashu/OTTServer-Deployer
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
Ansible repo to deploy OTTServer
Contributions:115 commits, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 1 month
towerdeploymentansibledocker
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