About

Prakhar Goyal is a Principal Engineer at Microsoft with a total of 14 years of experience in scalable platform architecture and building robust fault-tolerant systems based on Big Data, Cloud, AI, and ML. He is currently based in Bengaluru, India, and is actively seeking an angel investor for his NBU startup. Prakhar is well-versed in Agile Scrum methodology with CI/CD pipeline implementation and has worked with many leading research institutions globally, including the University of Southern California, University of Massachusetts, INRIA France, and others. He has numerous international research publications to his credit. Before joining Microsoft, Prakhar worked for a startup named "LookSmart" in a consulting role for advancements in the search advertising domain space. He is also the Co-founder and CTO of geniemode, where he is responsible for driving technology innovation and growth. Prakhar has a strong background in education, having completed his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He also holds a Master of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the same institute. In addition, he completed research internships at the University of Southern California and the University of Massachusetts and worked as a research assistant at the National University of Singapore. Prakhar has worked for several companies in the past, including an e-learning startup, where he was the Co-founder and CTO. He also worked for MagicBricks, where he was the GM and Head of Engineering at the Bangalore Innovation Center. Prakhar is proficient in a wide range of technologies, including Java, Spark, ML, Hadoop, AWS, CI/CD, Microservices, Search, NoSQL, MongoDB, Spring, Jenkins, Docker, MySQL, Cassandra, Kafka, Azure, Apache Hive, and more. His relevant experience in the field is 7.69 years.