Summary
Prashant Aghara is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 5 years of experience building scalable backend systems and cost-optimized cloud solutions. He specializes in Java and Spring Boot, high-volume data stores like PostgreSQL, Cassandra and Cosmos DB, and containerized deployments on Kubernetes and Azure. At ZopSmart he has driven measurable impact—improving search performance by up to 60%, architecting a PostgreSQL migration that cut cloud costs by 70–80%, and delivering APIs that process millions of records daily. He pairs hands-on engineering with strong operational practices, introducing monitoring with Grafana/Datadog and robust CI/CD pipelines using Docker, GitHub Actions and Harness. A mentor to junior engineers, he balances performance optimization with pragmatic design and has hands-on experience in data engineering tools like PySpark/Databricks. Based in Nadiad, Gujarat, he brings a results-first mindset and a curiosity for both Java and JavaScript ecosystems.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, 8.06, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, 8.06 at DDUstudent