About

Prajwal Tuladhar is a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of professional experience in bootstrapping frontend and backend services and architecture, along with maintaining existing infrastructures. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Squarespace and is passionate about learning from others and teaching them by sharing his own experience and knowledge. Prajwal's experience ranges from being the first engineer to be hired in a startup to working as a full-stack engineer, and architecting/maintaining critical data infrastructure for a large team. He has worked with a 100% cloud stack (AWS) to hybrid stack to colocated data center stack. Prajwal is proficient in programming languages like Java, Scala, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, Python, and TypeScript. He has also worked with databases and large-scale analytical engines like MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Apache Spark, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Druid, Hive, Impala, Athena/PrestoDB. Prajwal's expertise extends to various software/tools/frameworks like Ruby on Rails, React, Dropwizard, Netty, Apache Airflow, Ansible, AWS EMR, AWS Lambda, AWS RDS, AWS VPC, AWS ECS, AWS Cloudformation, and AWS Kinesis. Before joining Squarespace, Prajwal worked as a Director of Software Engineering at RUN, where he led ETL/Reporting backend for RUN 2.0 using Spark for batch processing, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch for time series queries. He also worked on boosting the performance of the existing ElasticSearch cluster and initiated and led on-call scheduling for the data team using PagerDuty. Prajwal's technical expertise includes AWS, software engineering, Ruby, Spark, ECS, Ansible, JavaScript, backend, Apache Airflow, MongoDB, Elastic Search, infra, frontend, Amazon Athena, ETL, Redis, TypeScript, PHP, MySQL, Apache Hive, Scala, and Docker. With 17.96 years of relevant experience, Prajwal is a highly skilled software engineer who brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to any project he undertakes.