Bernd Prager
President Founder at PCS Prager Consulting Services LLC
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolBernd Prager is a seasoned AI strategist, enterprise architect, and founder with 14 years of documented experience and a multi-decade technology career that spans founding a German software company to senior architecture and delivery leadership at enterprises like EPAM and Standard & Poor’s. He specializes in architecting scalable AI systems—working with LLMs, LangChain, Neo4j, Azure OpenAI—and operationalizing graph-based RAG pipelines alongside AI FinOps. As Director of Delivery at EPAM he led IoT, compliance, and AI evangelism, and earlier roles include enterprise and data architecture in insurance, product leadership in retail, and hands-on prototyping at financial publishers. A practical technologist fluent in Python, containers, and embedded systems, he blends deep systems thinking with delivery discipline to move proofs of concept into production. Based in Los Angeles, he now runs PCS Prager Consulting Services to help organizations define technical strategy and scale intelligent systems. Beyond the resume, he pairs rigorous architecture practice with a founder’s instinct—comfortable both designing reference architectures and diving into code.
14 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma qualifying for university admission, Diploma qualifying for university admission at Ostseegymnasium RostockMA Information Technology, MA Information Technology at Technische Universität Dresden
English, German
Stackoverflow
101reputation
5kreached
8answers
12questions
Github Skills (110)
messaging10
concurrency10
io-uring10
stream10
integrate10
java10
network10
pubsub10
zeromq10
networking10
pgp9
eip9
apache-camel9
k8s9
microservices9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bprager/filescan-demo
Jun 2016 - Jun 2019
POC for a Hadoop based file scan system
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
scanfile-basedscan-systempochadoop
bprager/chatgpt-pr-comment
May 2023 - Nov 2024
A demo to have OpenAI's ChatGPT make comments on a GitHub pull request
Contributions:342 PRs, 321 pushes, 258 branches in 1 year 6 months
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