About

Om Prakash Thakur is a highly skilled Software Development Engineer with over five years of experience in building scalable distributed applications. He is currently working as an SDE2 at Amazon AWS, where he is responsible for designing and developing software systems that can handle large-scale data processing and analysis. Om has also worked with other leading companies such as Groupon and BrowserStack in the past. Om's core competencies lie in competitive coding, data structures and algorithms, product development, software design, and building scalable distributed applications. He has a strong command over various programming languages such as C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and RESTful services. During his tenure at Buyhatke, Om worked on creating and consuming APIs for public use and built a Trading Bot that performed profitable crypto trading on different crypto exchanges across the world. He also developed a scalable push notifications service using FCM, which marketers could use for user engagement and user behavior tracking on their site. As the Chief Software Architect at ScholarRank, Om designed and developed the entire backend for the platform. He also developed various microservices to power ScholarRank's online live chats, live classrooms, and online testing platform. Om used Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, and other tech stacks to create these services. Om's technical skill set includes software engineering, AWS, JavaScript, test, infra, Java, Ruby, data engineering, Redis, web, senior software engineering, Spark, MySQL, MongoDB, microservices, integration, and backend. He is a highly motivated and results-driven individual who thrives in a fast-paced and challenging environment.