About

Prafful Nath Mathur is a Lead Engineer at LBB (Nykaa) with over 5 years of experience in software development. He is a BTech graduate in Computer Science from VIT University and has a passion for researching and innovating to solve technical and business problems. Prafful has experience in building highly scalable and reliable web applications and Big data analytics in high energy startups. He has worked on a wide range of Amazon Web Services like Lambda, S3, ElasticBeanstalk, EC2, ECS, Elastictranscoder, etc. and on Google Cloud Platform such as Big Query, Pub-Sub, Data-flow, App Engine, etc. His technical expertise includes NodeJs, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Big Query, and more. Prafful is currently working as a Principal Engineer at LBB (Nykaa) and has improved query-based search relevance. He has implemented a pipeline to clean and recognize useful entities and give them an importance score from the unstructured content in product attributes to be used as searchable data. This helped increase conversion from the search pages to the product pages by 10% within 2 weeks. Prior to his current role, Prafful worked as a Senior Software Engineer and Software Development Engineer at LBB (Nykaa). During his time there, he contributed to various projects such as implementing a place recommender feed using content-based filtering on user profiles, improving existing API performances, and implementing a virtual wallet for users to collect rewards based on various activities on the app. Prafful's education history includes a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science from VIT University. He has also attended Kiddy's Corner School. His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, AWS, ECS, Search, Web, Software Engineer, Elastic Search, NodeJS, Redis, MongoDB, Backend, Javascript, Research Scientist, Big Data, Python, SQL, Information Retrieval, NLP, test, Golang, GCP, and infra. Overall, Prafful has 5.70 years of relevant experience in the field of software development.