About

Prakhar Goyal is a Technical Lead Engineer at AwanTunai with over 9 years of experience in computer programming, artificial intelligence, data analytics, and distributed systems. He is skilled in agile software development, test-driven development, and developing scalable software from scratch. Prakhar's current role at AwanTunai involves leading a team of engineers and designing software products for finance, sales, and operations. Prior to this, he worked at Cisco as a Software Development Engineer and Scrum Master, where he built the Cisco Group-Based Policy Analytics product from scratch and expanded the team to 40 members. He also designed a state machine in Go to collect netflow data and send it to Kafka using Google protocol buffers. As a Scrum Master, he led a team of 15 engineers and ensured that product deadlines were met while coordinating with product management and customer IT teams to drill down requirements at a granular level. Prakhar's experience also includes working on the precursor for the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) product for visibility in enterprise networks, specifically data collection and stream processing. He increased the number of end devices handled by the ISE from 250k to 1.2 million, leading to significant reductions in operational costs for customers. Prakhar holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Honours in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science and completed his high school education from Maharana Mewar Public School, Udaipur (Rajasthan). His technical skills include Java, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Elastic Search, Selenium, Kafka, Jenkins, Apache Storm, Cassandra, Hadoop, Python, RabbitMQ, Javascript, ML, MySQL, MongoDB, Spring Boot, Microservices, DevOps, GCP, and Mobile.