Prayas Purusottam
Engineering at Google
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPrayas Purusottam is an engineering leader with 10 years’ experience building resilient, multi-tenant cloud systems and data pipelines, currently shipping platform work at Google from Bengaluru. He’s fluent in Go, Python, Scala and JavaScript and combines strong infrastructure skills (Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Datadog) with deep data engineering experience (Spark, Hadoop, Hive) to operate high-SLI services. At Cisco he drove identity provisioning and streaming platforms to sub-hour SLAs and 99.99% availability, and at Apple and Oracle he worked on large-scale mapping and analytics pipelines. A pragmatic open-source contributor, he enhanced GoogleCloudPlatform’s data validation utility to improve heterogeneous table comparisons and datatype mapping robustness. Comfortable across security, mapping and finance domains, he pairs systems design with hands-on backend development to turn complex integrations into production-grade, SOC2-compliant deployments.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science at IIIT Bhubaneswar
English, Hindi, Odia
Github Skills (6)
data-validation10
python10
schema-validation9
data-engineering8
bigquery7
teradata7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/professional-services-data-validator
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Utility to compare data between homogeneous or heterogeneous environments to ensure source and target tables match
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 5 commits, 16 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Prayas primarily contributed to the development of the data validation utility, focusing on enhancing its functionality and improving code quality. Their work involved adding features such as configurable log levels and allow-list for datatype mapping, as well as fixing bugs related to Teradata connections and random row filtering. The user also made modifications to the schema validation process and configurations.
data-validationcompare-dataheterogeneousschema-validationensure
kanhaPrayas/dvt-worker-pool
Jul 2023 - Aug 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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