About

Prakash Itnal is a highly skilled Software Architect with close to 11 years of experience, including 2 years in the role of Software Architect and 4 years as Scrum Master. He is well-versed in providing solutions from concept to product delivery and has extensive experience in people management, planning, estimation, and resolution of production issues with internal and external customer resources. He has a proven track record of meeting operational deadlines under high-pressure environments and has dealt with diverse professionals, clients, and team members. Prakash has excellent interpersonal communication skills, is self-motivated, and able to set effective priorities to achieve immediate and long-term goals. He has extensive experience in leading and working with multi-cultural and multi-geography based teams and is a strong believer in Agile principles. Prakash is an expert in OOPs based multi-threaded software design and implementation for high available, distributed systems with good knowledge of design patterns. He has substantial exposure in OAM (FCAPS) domain and has a substantial understanding of PostgreSQL relational database concepts. Prakash has good experience in using UML design tools such as Rational Rose, Rational Tau, and StarUML. He has substantial experience in developing android applications and is always excited to learn new technologies and apply them in day-to-day life. Prakash is a strong design skills and application of design patterns, and his specialities include core network platform services (middleware), OAM, FCAPS modules, specialized in PM, and well-versed with OOP's concepts and C++ programming. Currently, Prakash is working as a Software Architect at Nokia Networks, where he designs, validates, and negotiates new features with stakeholders. He creates feature description cards and requirements for new features, designs reusable software components, and works in close collaboration with the team and stakeholders to achieve goals in time. Prakash mentors the team to build technical and domain expertise, deploys skills and knowledge transfer within and across the teams, and continuously reviews and re-factors code to keep the technical debt in control. He applies agile principles such as lean methods, self-organization, and self-adaptation and coaches various teams within the organization on Agile Methodology and Scrum Principles. Prakash has previously worked as a Technical Lead (Scrum Master) and R&D Engineer (Scrum Master) at Nokia Networks. In these roles, he ensured good and efficient practices were followed, guided the team in the right direction to achieve the goal efficiently,