Prakhar Sahay
Software Engineer at Meta
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolPrakhar Sahay is a software engineer based in Cambridge, MA with 11 years of industry experience and 8+ years focused on full‑stack and big data development. He has built and maintained high-throughput, production data systems—most notably at Twitter where he helped ingest 1.5M client events/second and at Wayfair where he led Spark efforts and simplified a sprawling codebase. Currently at Meta, he brings proven expertise in Java, Python, Spark, Airflow, and streaming technologies (Storm, Redis, Aerospike) to solve large-scale analytics and real‑time data challenges. Prakhar combines hands-on implementation with technical leadership—mentoring engineers, owning SME responsibilities, and trimming technical debt across services. He also has a background in computational biology and tooling, which gives him a knack for data-driven problem framing and pragmatic experimentation. Quietly pragmatic and results-oriented, he’s equally comfortable optimizing cluster resources as he is building front-end monitoring apps to surface data quality issues.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Math Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Math Biology at Brandeis University
Hindi, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
google-cloud9
jquery8
terraform-provider8
terraform8
google-cloud-platform8
heroku7
cloud-platform7
physics7
tomcat6
maven6
mongodb6
java6
threejs6
scheduler5
javascript4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
paxorus/blox-schedule
Aug 2014 - Nov 2020
Block charts depicting weekly activities
Contributions:29 commits, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 4 months
herokuchartschartjquerynodejs-mongodb
paxorus/monastery
Feb 2016 - Nov 2020
Testing site for Seismic JS framework.
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years 10 months
herokujquerynodejs-mongodbjs-frameworktesting
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