Summary
Prathamesh Mhapsekar is a Software Development Engineer with eight years of experience building high-throughput, resilient payment and support systems, currently pursuing an MS in Computer Science at USC and now at Amazon. He designed and implemented core components of JPMC’s cross-border, high-value payments platform—handling trillion-dollar weekly flows—focusing on scalable microservices, Kafka-based event streaming, encryption, and Kubernetes-driven deployments. He’s delivered major latency and reliability improvements (e.g., reducing dashboard retrieval from hours to minutes and enabling zero-incident data-center failovers) and contributed to an ISO 20022 migration and PWA UI work. A recent intern project at Nomura applied LLMs and vector DBs to accelerate production support search by 800%, showing he bridges traditional fintech systems and modern RAG/agentic AI patterns. Outside work he experiments with Django and hobby projects that promote cross-team collaboration, reflecting a pragmatic, product-minded approach to engineering.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Southern California
S.S.C. High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, S.S.C. High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at St Xavier's High School, Andheri East
Diploma in Engineering Information Technology, Diploma in Engineering Information Technology at Government Polytechnic Mumbai
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology at Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering
English, Marathi, Hindi