About

Prasad Nakhate is a highly skilled software engineer with over 4.5 years of experience in back-end system development. He is currently pursuing his MSCS degree at UCI while actively seeking software roles. Prasad has an end-to-end working knowledge of back-end systems, having extensively worked on projects for Samsung R&D Bangalore and Dunzo Bangalore. He is proficient in back-end technologies like Spring, Kafka, New Relic, Spark, AWS, GCP, Couchbase, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and more. Prasad's notable achievements include being the sole development owner of the only database layer built for all of Samsung Pay India services over Couchbase (CDAP). He also developed the Cryptographic Service Module enabling secure data communication between Samsung Pay client application and servers, which is used by three of Samsung Pay India services. Prasad has experience in the complete project lifecycle, from requirements gathering to development, testing, and market release. He has successfully managed multiple and simultaneous deployment cycles for several projects, including Bill Payment, Recharge, CDAP (Data Service Layer), Gift Cards, and Flywheel servers. Prasad has also streamlined the performance test pipeline of Samsung Pay, making him a valuable asset to any team. He has worked with cloud key management systems, including exposure to AWS KMS and GCP KMS, and has built modules for storing PII data of users securely for both Samsung Pay India and Dunzo India. Prasad holds a B.Tech degree in CSE from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, completed in 2017. He is proficient in several technologies, including AWS, GCP, New Relic, Spark, MongoDB, Kafka, Spring, and more. With 6.11 years of relevant experience, Prasad is a highly skilled and motivated software engineer with a proven track record of success.