Prakhar Sharma
Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPrakhar Sharma is a software engineer with 8 years of experience architecting and operating cloud-native systems, currently enabling service-oriented architecture at scale for Snap Inc. His background includes building gRPC service frameworks, scalable API/resource-provider layers, and deploying services to Kubernetes and Service Fabric during a multi-year tenure at Microsoft. He has strong DevOps and CI/CD expertise—Spinnaker, Envoy, service mesh and observability—and practical QA/test-automation experience contributing to the high-profile Azure PowerShell repo. A UC San Diego CS master’s graduate with top-tier IIT Indore undergraduate credentials, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on production work across performance benchmarking, CDN analytics, and responsive UI tooling. Known for a “Keep It Simple” approach, he balances pragmatic engineering with attention to testability and cross-service reliability.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, GPA: 9.67, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, GPA: 9.67 at IIT INDORE
English, French, Hindi
Github Skills (7)
powershell10
azure10
azure-powershell10
microsoft-azure10
testing10
test-automation9
arm9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-powershell
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 18 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Prakhar primarily contributed to the test suite for the Azure PowerShell module. Their work involved adding new tests, updating existing tests, and re-recording tests. The commits demonstrate a focus on testing CDN functionality, including custom domains, endpoints, and the integration of updated dependencies from other Azure management libraries. The changes suggest a thorough effort to ensure the module's functionality and compatibility.
microsoft-azure-powershellpowershellmicrosoft-azuremicrosoftazure
prakharsharma10/azure-rest-api-specs
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:6 pushes in 2 months
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
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