About

Prashant Bhutani is a highly skilled Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in backend, infra and platform development. He is currently working at Apple as a Software Engineer for iCloud. Prashant has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from IIT Varanasi. Prashant’s expertise lies in developing and managing core IAM (Identity and Access Management) backend services on Azure, as well as developing and extending platform capabilities for Service Fabric, a distributed microservices orchestrator. He has extensive experience working with distributed systems and building microservices, and has worked with multiple containers runtimes such as docker, clear and crio. Prashant also has experience developing Serverless PAAS cloud infra for containers using Service Fabric Mesh. Prashant is always open to exploring and learning new technologies. His specialties include programming languages such as C#, Python, and Java. He is also experienced in using Docker containers, Clear containers, crio container runtime, Windows Azure, Azure service fabric, Managed Service Identity, AAD, scalable microservices, Redis, Git, and fluentd. Prior to joining Apple, Prashant worked at Microsoft as a Software Engineer, where he provided managed Azure offering of PostgreSql DB as a service. He was part of the team working on moving the platform to serverless infra instead of managing their own infrastructure for long term viability. He also worked on security aspects of the service to ensure it can be GA, and reduced the time it takes to provision a DB instance from >5 mins to under 2.5 mins by caching the pre-provisioned instances and assigning them to users on demand. Before Microsoft, Prashant worked at Kiwi, where he worked on android games. He designed and implemented new features in the game in Java using libgdx platform. He also worked on the server side using Php, mysql and Redis (NoSql db). Prashant’s tech stack includes Software Engineering, Azure, Microservices, infra, Docker, Backend, Redis, Java, AWS, Python, Terraform, CI/CD, MySQL, DevOps, Ansible, Kubernetes, PHP, NoSQL, and Jenkins. With over 11 years of relevant experience, Prashant is a highly skilled and versatile software engineer.