Prabhu Jayakumar
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Top SchoolPrabhu Jayakumar is a Senior Software Engineer and DevOps/SRE practitioner with over a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently driving infrastructure work at Microsoft. He specializes in large-scale Kubernetes orchestration, AWS platform design, and automating resilient deployments and CI/CD pipelines, having led migrations and production ops for high-traffic microservices and eCommerce platforms. Prabhu has a strong incident-response and reliability focus—running postmortems, improving availability, and implementing monitoring and disaster recovery solutions across EKS, Lambda, SQS, Prometheus, and Grafana. He pairs extreme programming practices (TDD, pair programming, iterative delivery) with hands-on tooling experience, including building CLI tools that simplified deployments for dozens of teams. Notably, he has executed zero-data-loss cross-account data migrations using AWS Glue and contributed to tooling that helped move 100+ services from VMs to Kubernetes, accelerating global expansion for clients. Based in Chennai, he blends deep systems engineering with pragmatic automation to make distributed systems observable, testable, and easier to operate.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
HSC Computer Science, HSC Computer Science at Vellayan Chettiar Hr. Sec. SchoolBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Anna University Chennai
English
Github Skills (194)
hackmd10
switch10
ruby10
reliability-engineering10
site-reliability-engineering10
k8s10
charts10
linux10
kubectl10
helm10
golang10
lambda10
shell10
chaos-engineering10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
prabhu43/cka-exam
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:44 commits, 12 pushes in 2 years 3 months
prabhu43/website
Nov 2019 - Apr 2024
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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