Prasath Premkumar
Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolPrasath Premkumar is a Senior Software Engineer and technical lead with over a decade of experience designing and delivering enterprise and distributed systems across finance, telecom, and data platforms. He excels in Java/J2EE and a broad modern stack—microservices, Akka/Lagom, event-sourcing/CQRS, cloud-native AWS, Docker orchestration and CI/CD—bringing proven architecture and hands-on implementation skills. At companies from JPMorgan Chase and BT to Binance and Atlassian, he has led PoCs, R&D, NFR analysis and platform re-architecture efforts while mentoring teams and owning delivery. He is comfortable in both functional and object-oriented styles (Scala, Kotlin, Vavr) and has applied strong TDD/BDD practices to keep complex systems robust. An active open-source contributor, he added OAuth/Twitter authentication features and tests to the well-known takes Java web framework, showing attention to iterative code quality. Based in Sydney, he balances deep engineering craft with a curiosity for big data, IoT and emerging technologies.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Physical science, BSc Physical science at University of Colombo
English, Tamil, Sinhalese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
http10
java10
twitter-api10
javas10
oauth10
oop9
unit-testing8
actor6
playframework6
dependency-injection6
sed6
jquery6
akka6
guice6
scheduled-tasks6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yegor256/takes
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
True Object-Oriented Java Web Framework without NULLs, Static Methods, Annotations, and Mutable Objects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 5 PRs, 39 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Prasath primarily contributed to the `takes` framework by adding and modifying authentication features, specifically related to Twitter integration. Their work involved creating classes like `PsTwitter` and `EncodingException`, which handle OAuth processes and token retrieval. They also addressed review comments, demonstrating iterative development and attention to code quality. Furthermore, they added tests to validate the Twitter authorization flow, ensuring the robustness of the implemented features.
micro-frameworkjava-webundertowxml-xsltframework
popprem/takes
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:20 pushes, 8 branches in 24 days
java-webframeworkimmutableobject-orientedjava
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