Praveen Prakash
Principal Engineer at Sedai
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPraveen Prakash is a Principal Engineer with over a decade building reliable, maintainable backend and platform systems, currently focused on Kubernetes-based orchestration, autoscaling, and federated observability. He has led large-scale modernization efforts and delivered cloud-agnostic orchestration and autoscaling platforms that autonomously optimize cost and performance while standardizing metrics across Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic, and CloudWatch. Known for simplifying complex distributed workflows, he emphasizes long-term operability through clock consistency, robust retry handling, and predictable data access patterns rather than quick patches. His background includes leading consumer and B2B web platform modernization at Princess Cruises and architecting cloud-native APIs and microservices across enterprise engagements. Outside work he builds ESP32-based single-purpose devices and automation workflows, applying event-driven design and constrained-environment reliability lessons back into platform engineering. Based in Los Angeles, he prefers stable, quality-focused backend work that minimizes operational firefighting.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Science at University of MadrasBachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Mahatma Gandhi UniversityData Science, Data Science at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
English
Github Skills (3)
integrations10
datadog10
agent10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
SedaiEngineering/integrations-extras
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Community developed integrations and plugins for the Datadog Agent.
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
datadog-agentintegrationsagentdatadog
praveenprakash/AsciiArt
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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