About

Prakhar Panwaria is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Microsoft, with over 11 years of relevant experience in the field of Data and AI. He is responsible for architecting and building Data and ML Platform infrastructure for the Windows+Devices Org, promoting best practices across the team and beyond. He also leads the development of data solutions to improve the failure investigation experience for Windows Devs and DI Engineers, which in turn helps polish up core Windows experience for over 1 billion end-users. Prakhar has a strong technical background and is proficient in a range of technologies, including PySpark, Scala, Python, C#, Bash, Spark, Spark SQL, HDFS, Hive, Impala, MapReduce, YARN, Oozie, Azure ML, Blob Storage, Data Lake Storage, Active Directory, Data Factory, WebApps, Databricks, Kubernetes, Application Insights, and DevOps. He has also worked with Cloudera Tools such as Cloudera Manager, Hue, Director, and DataScience Workbench. Prior to his current role at Microsoft, Prakhar worked as a Software Engineer II at the company, where he contributed to the development of the 'Windows Intelligent Rollout' system that uses ML to prioritize the order of devices globally to upgrade and alert partner teams & OEMs about any potential issues well ahead of time. He has also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Walmart, where he designed and developed an Apache-Mesos and Apache-Chronos based distributed framework to run ETL pipelines for the Replenishment business of Walmart eCommerce. Prakhar holds a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT). He has a strong technical skill set and experience in software engineering, AI, ML, Spark, SQL, Azure, HDFS, Databricks, Big Data, Data Engineering, infra, MapReduce, Kubernetes, DevOps, Python, Scala, Apache Hive, ETL, MySQL, Hadoop, Postgres, Backend, and Web.