Kiran Prakash
Software Engineer at Uber
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKiran Prakash is a software engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building high-throughput, low-latency search pipelines and distributed systems. He has a proven track record of leading 0→1 initiatives—most notably architecting a near-real-time search pipeline that cut query latency by 70% using Kafka and Elasticsearch. His hands-on expertise spans Java, Ruby, Scala, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka and cloud-native deployments, with deep experience improving search reliability and efficiency at scale across companies like Zendesk, AWS OpenSearch, and Uber. Kiran combines systems-level thinking with pragmatic engineering, migrating legacy workloads to modern orchestration platforms and optimizing metadata ingestion and modeling. He mentors engineers and consistently delivers measurable performance gains in production search infrastructure. Having advanced from internship work in web stacks to shaping search platforms at large cloud and consumer companies, he brings both breadth and production-hardened depth to search engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at BVBCET HubliMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Northeastern University
English, Kannada, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (23)
meilisearch10
search-engine10
opensearch10
opensearch-dashboards10
analytics10
java10
restful10
elasticsearch10
dashboard9
virtual-machine9
observability8
benchmark8
monitoring8
analyzer8
jvm8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kiranprakash154/OpenSearch
Jan 2024 - Sep 2024
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Contributions:6 reviews, 1 PR, 312 pushes in 8 months
kiranprakash154/opensearch-benchmark-workloads
Jul 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:132 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year
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