Joe Prakash
Founding Backend Engineer at NYU Tandon School of Engineering
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Prakash is a founding backend engineer and infrastructure-focused technologist based in New York with three years of hands-on experience building and operating production systems. He has founded Link Layer to simplify infrastructure, currently leads backend development at JellyJelly (video chats), and mentors students as an Infrastructure Advisor at NYU’s OSIRIS Cybersecurity Lab. His background blends datacenter hardware, networking (OPNsense, Cisco, UniFi), VMware deployments, and full-stack service development, reflecting a practical edge across both systems and application layers. Joe’s work history shows a pattern of turning research-grade compute environments into reliable platforms and shipping APIs and backend features for startups, suggesting strong operational discipline alongside startup-driven product instincts.
3 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at New York UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Good Shepherd Public School
Github Skills (22)
theia9
learning-management-system8
lms7
science7
k8s7
python7
vagrant6
distributed-systems6
kubernetes6
printer5
penetration-testing4
application-security4
api3
vulnerability-management3
json3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
osiris-cloud/osiris-cloud
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:22 PRs, 42 pushes, 42 branches in 4 months
sproutmaster/printer-info-snatcher
Jan 2023 - May 2023
Scrapes and returns printer info as JSON to be used as an api
Contributions:11 PRs, 24 pushes, 11 branches in 4 months
to-jsonapireturnsprinterscrapes
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