About

Prasant Kumar is an experienced Software Development Engineer with over 5 years of relevant experience in the field. Currently working as an SDE II at Philips, he is part of the Computed Tomography (CT) department where he is responsible for developing a Windows application to help doctors perform CT scans. He is also involved in adding new features for a new product release called Oceanus, as well as improving the performance of clinical scans to reduce the contact of patients with x-rays. Prasant is also responsible for maintaining the codebase to reduce application crashes and hangs. Prior to joining Philips, Prasant worked as a Project Engineer at Wipro where he was responsible for developing and optimizing an architecture called Bagheera. This new architecture consisted of one orchestrator service and three child services responsible for capturing images, running algorithms on the captured images, and outputting the data as required by the user. He used SignalR for communication between the four service APIs and the client, and Log4Net and SignalR to log messages for debugging purposes. Prasant was also responsible for enhancing image analysis algorithms written in both C++ and C#, and for developing a new Rich-GUI made with WPF framework and Dev-Express which connects with the webservice and renders the incoming logs, images, overlays, and graphs. Prasant has a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Jaypee University of Information Technology. He is proficient in software engineering, UI development, testing, QA, and C programming. With his experience and expertise, Prasant is committed to making the world a better place through his work in software development.