About

Prakhar Sahay is an experienced Software Engineer with over 2 years of experience in the big data industry. He has a solid background in full-stack development, including NodeJS, PHP, and Flask. Prakhar is a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) graduate, with a focus on Computer Science, Math, and Biology from Brandeis University. Currently, Prakhar is working as a Software Engineer at Twitter. In his previous role as a Software Engineer at Wayfair, he was the technical lead for two engineers, and an Apache Spark SME for over 20 engineers. He maintained a scalable REST service to cache and aggregate over 100 types of first-party and third-party customer data that backed product recommendations and marketing emails. He built multiple pipelines for data processing, created apps to monitor real-time data quality and cluster resources. Prakhar's work was primarily in Java and Python, and occasionally ReactJS, using Storm, Redis, and Aerospike for the streaming layer, and Spark, Airflow, Hive, and Hadoop for batch layer and pipelines. He was lauded as "the tech debt killer" for gradually deleting over 10k lines of code and reducing the number of code repositories owned by the team from 20 to 8. Prakhar's past experience also includes working as a Sensor Processing and Networking Intern at Charles River Analytics, where he contributed to Bayesian networks in Scala for aerospace threat prediction and used JavaScript to create an Amazon Mechanical Turk application and consolidate training data for computer vision on autonomous watercraft, winning the Great Promise Award. Prakhar has a TechStack that includes Software Engineer, Spark, Hadoop, Big Data, Data Scientist, Research Scientist, PHP, Flask, Apache Airflow, Redis, NodeJS, Senior Software Engineer, Computer Vision, Apache Hive, Javascript, Python, ReactJS, and Java. His relevant experience is 5.78 years.