About

Kathir Prabhakaran S is a highly experienced senior backend web developer with over 10 years of experience in software development. He currently works as a Software Development Engineer 4 at Verifone, where he is responsible for planning, designing, developing, and testing software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products. He is recognized as the go-to developer for the core areas of the application and has led major architecture and platform discussions that shape the future of the product line. Kathir is a result-driven, analytical, and coherent developer with hands-on experience in developing cloud-based applications. He is a Cloud enthusiast and always interested in learning new technologies and deepening his understanding of the known ones. He has expertise in various programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, C, HTML, CSS, Shell Script, XML, and JSON. He is also proficient in operating systems like Windows and Linux and databases like Postgres, MongoDB, Cassandra, MySQL, and Empress. Kathir has worked with several frameworks and APIs such as Spring, Spring Boot, J2EE, Apache Spark, Hadoop, GWT, SOAP, Restful Web Services, JDBC, and Hibernate. He is familiar with containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes and messaging systems like MQTT and Kafka. He has experience working with various software and tools like Git, Eclipse, VS Code, Visual Paradigm, Jira, Jama, Confluence, SonarQube, and Jenkins CI/CD. Kathir started his career in the telecom domain as a network engineer in 2009 and has since then developed applications end-to-end from requirement analysis to realization and to production. He has led the design and development of software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products. He has also led the major architecture and platform discussions that changed Point-of-Sale and Payment products. Kathir holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Electronics & Communication from Sri Subramanya College of Engineering & Technology. He is a skilled software engineer with a strong background in web development, Spring, Java, Spark, CI/CD, backend, Kubernetes, Docker, Javascript, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop, Kafka, Spring Boot, Jenkins, Postgres, test, product designer, Parts-of-speech, Microservices, AWS, and UI.