About

Prashant Jain is a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with a total of 9 years of experience in FullStack/Android/Java Programming. He has a strong background in Reactive Programming, Object Oriented Design, Multi-process Architecture, IPC and Client-Server Communication, ORM (Object Relational Mapping) layers, Pub-Sub Systems, Encryption, TCP/IP Protocols and many other areas. Prashant has a critical approach to data structures and algorithms, making him an expert in the field. Prashant is a self-motivated and well-organized team player, who is able to create a flexible work environment with the ability to deliver under minimal supervision. He is regarded as a valuable contributor to the team and has had the opportunity to oversee and mentor a small team of developers. Currently, Prashant is working at Microsoft as a Senior Software Engineer, where he is making Whiteboard go-to-product for Education and Microsoft 365 users. He spearheaded the public launch of Android(4.3+) and iOS(4.4+) apps and wrote a generic authentication module enabling the faster release of Android/iOS/Windows/Hub/Mac apps with minimal code changes. He also improved boot performance by adding metrics of load bucket times, as well as using a service worker to cache all assets and different API calls, which achieved a reduction in P95 load times from 21 secs to 8 secs. Prior to his current role, Prashant worked at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer 2, where he was part of the Seller registration org. He worked on the Re-architecture of the whole stack to make a generic Identity Establishment for use-cases across Amazon, reducing latency by over 70%. Prashant also worked on improving automation of matching identity-document with seller information, which caught bad actors early and led to an improvement of over 2% in seller registration and fraud detection. Prashant has a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science from GLA Institute of Technology and Management and completed his intermediate studies in PCM-CS from Kendriya Vidyalaya. He has a strong technical background in Software Engineering, AWS, iOS, Android, Java, Spring, Frontend, and Backend. Prashant has a total of 10.03 years of relevant experience.