About

Prakhar Srivastava is a Senior Software Engineer at Wise with over 4.5 years of experience in designing and developing reliable, futuristic, and low-maintenance solutions. He has worked on a complete product development lifecycle, from startups to MNCs, and has deep-dived into philosophies that he incorporates into his day-to-day work. Prakhar is experienced in C/C++, Java, Go, Javascript, Qt, Distributed Systems, Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes. He is also familiar with Python, Typescript, and Express.js. Currently, he is working with Wise's UK Growth team, where he is responsible for Java 17, Spring Boot, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Kibana, Docker, Kubernetes, Spock, and Git. In his past roles, Prakhar worked as a Software Engineer at Zalando, where he was responsible for backend engineering for highly distributed and mission-critical pricing systems. He designed, developed, and deployed new services to the system and enhanced existing ones. He also worked on migrating legacy services to newer technologies and architectures to make them more reliable and robust. Prakhar provided 24/7 engineering support (on-call) for more than 27 mission-critical services deployed on Kubernetes clusters. At Pix4D, he worked with a team of researchers, scientists, and computer vision experts to develop the next generation of photogrammetry software for drone mapping. Prakhar holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Jaypee University and completed his high school education in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry from City Montessori School. Prakhar's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Kubernetes, Docker, Javascript, Kafka, Java, AWS, Backend, Typescript, Spring Boot, Spring, Redis, Python, Computer Vision, infra, and C. He has relevant experience of 4.94 years and believes in designing and developing the best solutions that are simple and easy to maintain.