Pruthvi Kumar is a Principal Software Engineer with 11+ years building resilient, cloud-native systems for banks, high-growth startups, and data-driven platforms. He specializes in scalable backend architecture, distributed orchestration, and data pipelines that turn lakes into actionable analytics while modernizing legacy monoliths into maintainable services. Known for pragmatic, evolutionary patterns—modular monoliths, opinionated stacks, and event-driven designs—he focuses on operational longevity and on-call peace rather than chasing hype. His work spans end-to-end concerns from DB internals and query optimization to Terraform modules and GraphQL-driven, database-first APIs that drastically cut boilerplate and latency. A hands-on leader who’s transformed search, auth, and streaming systems at companies like Zip Co, ANZ and Seer, he measures success by systems that outlast specs and PRs that earn quiet respect. Based in Melbourne, he blends product pragmatism with engineering rigor and even architects solutions with a detachment from certificate-driven validation—let’s talk architecture, not badges.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General at Christ University, Bangalore
"yet another database", and coz 'yadab' is easier to say than 'yadb'. No?
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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