Prakhar Joshi
Engineering at ShareChat
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPrakhar Joshi is an experienced software engineer with 12 years building backend and platform systems across startups and large enterprises, currently working in engineering at ShareChat after stints at Goldman Sachs, Hotstar, Postman and Grofers. He specializes in cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, API gateways and backend stacks (Python/Django/Flask, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery) and has practical experience deploying CMS features on AWS. A two-time Google Summer of Code contributor to the Plone Foundation and an active open-source maintainer, he has contributed core fixes and request-handling improvements to the widely used Emissary-Ingress (Ambassador) project. At Postman he built centralized emailing and custom domains and later automated security processes, showing a blend of product-minded engineering and security automation. Colleagues value him for shipping pragmatic systems-level solutions and for documenting his learnings through technical blogging.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
secondary school, science and Mathematics, secondary school, science and Mathematics at Kailash vidya viharBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), ICT, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), ICT at DA-IICT
English, Hindi
Github Skills (15)
env10
api-management10
envoyproxy10
python10
convoy10
api-gateway10
kubernetes-pods9
microservices-application9
microservices9
configuration-management9
kubernetes9
docker8
cicd8
dockers8
pytest8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
emissary-ingress/emissary
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Prakhar contributed to the `emissary-ingress` repository by modifying core components related to request handling and configuration management. They implemented features to control request ID overrides and updated the Ambassador IR module to properly handle request ID preservation. Additionally, the user merged branches and fixed syntax errors within the codebase, suggesting involvement in code integration and maintenance. The changes touched upon Python-based tests and configuration files, indicating a focus on the application's core functionality and infrastructure.
api-gatewayproxyreverse-proxyambassadorapi-management
prakharjoshi/bookstore
Mar 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:180 commits in 2 months
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