About

Prashanth Ch is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience in Software and Systems Reliability Engineering. He has an impressive track record of managing approximately 100k Linux servers at high availability across multiple clouds and on-prem data centers. Prashanth's preferred programming languages include GoLang, Python, and Rust, while he also has past experience with C++, Java, Ruby, and JavaScript. He is well-versed in using platforms/libraries such as Protocol Buffer, GRPC, Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Prashanth has solid experience in infrastructure management, using tools like Foreman, Ansible, Chef, Salt, and Terraform. Currently, Prashanth is working as a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP, where he has developed proactive services in critical trading systems that monitor 100K service instances and handle 2 million messages per hour. He has optimized backbone trading services by 20% to support nearly 700K trades per day using a distributed PostGres data warehouse. Prashanth is also currently developing a GraphQL and Kafka-based infrastructure platform that reduces the overall latency of fleet services to below 100 milliseconds. Previously, Prashanth has worked at VMware as a Member of Technical Staff, where he managed approximately 5000 Linux Servers running over 50 Kubernetes Clusters across 15 Cloud Regions. He developed cluster lifecycle management to automate the deployment and application management for Tanzu Mission Control's Infrastructure. Prashanth also optimized cloud usage by 18% cost reduction by implementing a Kubernetes operator to effectively monitor the desired state of infrastructure resources and perform elastic operations. He reduced infrastructure provisioning and integration time by 58% by introducing real-time message streaming using Apache Kafka running across 50 clusters. At Cisco, Prashanth worked as a Software Engineer III, where he improved Network Service Orchestrator (NSO)’s scalability by 30% to manage 500k network devices by designing a layered services architecture. He also reduced network provisioning time for NSO by 8% by designing a network functions classifier to achieve high accuracy eliminating any manual config generation. Prashanth holds a B.Tech degree in Information Technology from SRM University. He has relevant experience of over 8.12 years and is interested in domains such as Infrastructure Engineering, Distributed Systems, and Operating Systems. Prashanth's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Infra, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, Ansible, Terraform, Data Warehouse