Prashant Gonarkar
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPrashant Gonarkar is a Software Development Engineer II with 12 years of experience building scalable enterprise web applications and data pipelines, currently at Amazon in Seattle. He combines strong Java and Python expertise with production experience in distributed databases, big data processing (Hadoop, Spark), and search technologies like Elasticsearch and Lucene. Past roles include building RESTful services, AngularJS front ends, and bioinformatics pipelines that parsed NCBI GenBank data into Postgres and Lucene for phylogeography research. He has practical experience with messaging systems (Kinesis, Kafka, SQS/SNS), ML tooling (scikit-learn, pandas, Theano), and robust engineering practices including DDD and TDD. Notably, he has implemented cross-node SQLite replication utilities and WebRTC-based peer-to-peer prototypes, reflecting a blend of systems-level thinking and full-stack delivery. His background—MS in Computer Science and a history of shipping both research-facing and enterprise-grade systems—makes him adept at turning complex data and integration challenges into reliable, production services.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Engineering at College of Engineering PuneMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Arizona State University
English, Hindi, Marathi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
data-dump8
packaging7
genbank7
installer7
python7
pip7
shell6
package-installer6
sed6
regex6
normalization6
awk6
java4
lucene4
database3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Prashant47/prashant47.github.io
Apr 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
Prashant47/xv6web
Oct 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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