About

Prakash Kumar is a highly skilled software development engineer with over 8 years of experience in product development and enhancement. He has received numerous accolades for his exceptional problem-solving capabilities, including the "Star Performer for Quarter III, 2018" award for his immense contribution to the project. Prakash is a backend developer with sound experience in writing optimized code in terms of time and space complexity. He has a good understanding of OOPs, OOD, application design, and design principles such as SOLID and Design patterns. Prakash has hands-on experience with Java 1.8, Spring-4, Spring boot-2.1, Spring core, Spring MVC, Spring Data, and REST and SOAP web services. He is proficient in working with databases such as Oracle, MySQL, and MongoDB and has experience with caching tools like Eh cache and Haslecast cache. Prakash is also well-versed in testing tools such as Junit-4, Mokito, Unit testing, integration testing, and System testing. Prakash's expertise extends to messaging and streaming platforms such as Kafka, and he has experience with microservices-based application architecture, distributed systems, and service-oriented architecture (SOA). He is also skilled in Docker containerization, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies such as AWS, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Prakash has a good understanding of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, typescript, NodeJs, NPM, Angular-6, HTML, and CSS. He is proficient in versioning tools such as SVN and GIT and build tools like Maven. Prakash is experienced in agile methodologies and has worked with SCRUM, clean code, secure coding practices, peer review, pair programming, and TDD. Prakash has worked with various companies, including Tesco, where he is currently employed as a software development engineer. He has also worked as a senior software engineer at Netcracker and as a software engineer at Nokia. Prakash holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha, and a Master's degree in Economics from Indira Gandhi National Open University.