About

Prasannajit Tripathy is a highly experienced Principal Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce with a diverse background in software development. He is a senior technology leader who specializes in micro frontends using the latest UI technologies such as React JS and Node JS. Prasannajit leads a team that works on a UI application that serves thousands of customers per day. The pages have their own lifecycle and scale based on demand. The applications are containerized using Docker and run on the AWS ECS fargate platform. His team is responsible for development, deployment, automation, and monitoring. Infrastructure is automated using Terraform, and Jenkins is used for CICD. Prasannajit started his career as an embedded developer using C, C++, and Linux. He worked at various product companies like Honeywell and Hewlett Packard, where he acquired core programming fundamentals by working on a range of products such as printer firmware to advanced flight management systems. He even worked on C# and Java for a brief period of time. After a long stint in embedded technologies, he made a career shift towards UI applications and cloud services. He joined a fintech that deals with personal finance management applications and worked on some of the complex applications such as budgeting and income-expense analysis. These applications are integrated with some of the biggest financial institutions and banks in the US and UK. Prasannajit's past experience includes working as a Technical Lead at Tesco, where he designed micro frontends based on ReactJs and NodeJs. All the pages scaled based on demand, and the apps were containerized using Docker and ran on the AWS ECS platform. He also worked as a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Yodlee, where he designed and architected the next generation of hybrid personal financial apps such as budget management and expense/income analysis. Prasannajit holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha. He has more than 16 years of relevant experience in the software engineering industry. His tech stack includes Salesforce, AWS, UI, ECS, NodeJS, Docker, Terraform, ReactJS, Jenkins, Java, and infra.