Pooja Prakash
Sr. Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPooja Prakash is a senior software development engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, currently contributing to Amazon Bedrock after several years on Amazon ECS. She has deep backend and distributed-systems expertise from multiple stints at AWS and a prior engineering role at Meta, delivering scalable APIs and storage optimizations for real-time services. On open source, she contributed to blox—improving data storage efficiency by compressing JSON in etcd and adding streaming APIs for task and instance visibility. Her background includes academic teaching and research from Columbia University and IIT Madras, reflecting a strong theoretical foundation paired with production-grade engineering. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex distributed requirements into efficient, maintainable implementations that improve observability and performance.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Columbia University in the City of New YorkMS (Integrated), MS (Integrated) at Vellore Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
go10
api10
etcd10
apidoc10
data-storage9
json9
cloud-infrastructure8
infrastructure8
amazon-ecs7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
blox/blox
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Open source tools for building custom schedulers on Amazon ECS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 51 PRs, 28 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Pooja primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the `blox/blox` repository, focusing on data storage and API implementation. Their work involved compressing JSON data before storing it in etcd, indicating a focus on optimizing data storage efficiency. Furthermore, the user implemented APIs to stream task and instance data, which improves real-time visibility. The code changes also include refactoring the model representations for the API responses.
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poojamaiya/blox-1
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:66 pushes, 56 branches in 3 months
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