Vijay Prakash
Staff Software Engineer at Criteo
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVijay Prakash is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling high-throughput backend systems across startups and large tech companies. He has led cross-functional migrations and payment integrations at Stripe, owned services handling 100k+ RPS at Xbox Live, and implemented company-wide testing and DevOps improvements at Microsoft and Alphawatch.AI. Known for turning brittle systems into reliable, observable infrastructure, he brings deep expertise in stream processing, Kafka, metrics/alerting, and API design. Vijay pairs technical leadership and mentorship with pragmatic delivery—authoring SeatGeek’s first API Design Guide and hiring or interviewing dozens of engineers—while comfortably moving between startup scrappiness and enterprise-scale operational rigor.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Business Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Business Administration at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (72)
high-performance9
windows9
librdkafka9
kafka-producer9
c-library9
kafka9
adapter9
producer9
android9
flutter9
mtp9
apache-kafka9
dart8
mstest8
dotnet8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
arnath/sydney
Dec 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:14 PRs, 58 pushes, 14 branches in 5 years 3 months
arnath/moonlight-xbox
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 7 months
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