About

Prasanth Balachandar is an experienced Splunk Engineer with a strong background in software engineering and DevOps. With over 6 years of relevant experience, he has a broad understanding of data analysis and dashboard creation, which he uses to help businesses make informed decisions and enhance their applications. Prasanth is skilled in Splunk Enterprise platform, Data Analysis, Python, Retail Sales Analysis, Shell Scripting, XML, and MySQL. He has a deep understanding of Splunk architecture and various components, including indexer, forwarder, search head, lookups, and SPL commands. Moreover, he has hands-on experience in Unix - Shell and Perl scripting, Anthill Pro build tool, JIRA, Putty, ServiceNow, Confluence, Amdocs Clarify, SVN, and Oracle SQL. Currently, Prasanth works as a Software Engineer 3 at PayPal, where he uses his report and alerting skills to help in the reduction of MTTI and MTTR for application support and operations. Before joining PayPal, he worked as a Software Support Analyst at Walmart, where he created dashboards for multiple Walmart front-end applications to better understand the usage of the application and performance analysis. He also created Splunk Proactive monitoring dashboards for running status of application performance and critical alerts for major errors, service failures, response time errors, and user behaviors. Prasanth is a strong engineering professional who graduated from Panimalar Engineering College with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 2016. He is a quick learner, an excellent team player, and has a passion for solving complex problems. With his technical expertise and experience, he can help businesses achieve their goals and improve their operations.