About

Prabhu Marappan is a skilled software engineer and graduate research assistant currently pursuing his Master of Science in Computer Science from Portland State University. With over 5 years of experience in backend development, infrastructure, system design, and architecture for distributed web applications, he is a competent engineer looking to solve interesting engineering and data problems. Prabhu has a diverse skill set that includes proficiency in languages such as Python, Go, and JavaScript, databases like MongoDB, Redis, InfluxDB, and MySQL, message queues such as ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, and SQS, and technologies like AWS, Docker, Git, FluentD, ElasticSearch, Kibana, and microservices. He is a research scientist with a keen interest in solving complex engineering problems. Previously, Prabhu worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Freshworks, where he designed and developed on-the-fly image resize and compression, reducing image load times by over 70%. He also created a systematic plan to upgrade existing services to a long-term support version of Node.js runtime and deployed metrics gathering for two microservices through Prometheus, creating dashboards using Grafana to show real-time metrics. At Infratab, he worked on creating better API testing by adding API tests to CircleCI, developed functionalities on existing hybrid mobile applications using Cordova, and enabled blockchain in the mobile app using Ambrosus for recording and validating transactions. Prabhu has a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from SRM University and completed his high school education from Kendriya Vidyalaya. He is a proficient researcher with a relevant experience of 5.11 years and possesses a strong tech stack that includes AWS, Python, microservices, backend, JavaScript, MongoDB, infra, Golang, Docker, Elastic Search, Redis, Flask, web, RabbitMQ, MySQL, AWS ECR, SQL, Ethereum, mobile, blockchain, CI/CD, test, Jenkins, search, GCP, and Django.