Prashant Srivastava
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPrashant Srivastava is a pragmatic software engineer with seven years of experience building cloud-native, serverless systems and backend tooling, currently at AWS in Seattle. He specializes in Python and observability integrations, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like the AWS X-Ray SDK and OpenTelemetry .NET, where he improved compatibility, instrumentation, and AWS service integrations. Prior roles include designing a serverless datalake and CI/CD deployments at LexisNexis and large-scale Java/Hadoop work at Oracle, showing fluency across both cloud and big-data stacks. Prashant pairs hands-on engineering—unit/integration testing, refactoring, and dependency hardening—with a strong focus on robustness and operational visibility. He holds a CS degree from BITS Pilani and an MS from NC State, and quietly stands out for shipping practical observability fixes that improve real-world AWS integrations.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (18)
python10
testing10
net10
dotnet10
aws-sdk10
asp-net10
sdk10
aws10
opentelemetry10
csharp10
distributed-tracing9
psycopg9
dotnet-core9
amazon-ec28
dotnet-new8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-xray-sdk-python
Feb 2020 - Oct 2022
AWS X-Ray SDK for the Python programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 71 reviews, 34 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Prashant primarily contributed to the AWS X-Ray SDK for Python, focusing on improving its functionality and resolving integration issues. Their commits included adding checks, fixing dependencies, and refactoring code for better error handling. They also addressed compatibility issues with external libraries such as aiobotocore and psycopg2. Further, they added support for IMDSv2 in the EC2 plugin, enhancing the SDK's capabilities and robustness.
python-programmingraypythonsdkaws
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-contrib
Feb 2021 - May 2022
This repository contains set of components extending functionality of the OpenTelemetry .NET SDK. Instrumentation libraries, exporters, and other components can find their home here.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 153 reviews, 17 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Prashant focused on extending the functionality of the OpenTelemetry .NET SDK within this repository. Their contributions included upgrading OpenTelemetry dependencies, implementing AWS SDK client instrumentation and updating propagator logic. Additionally, the user was responsible for refactoring code, adding AWS SDK instrumentation features, and improving the overall integration of AWS services with OpenTelemetry.
instrumentationdotnetexportersinstrumentation-librariessdk
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