About

Samar Prakash is a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in the field. Currently working at VMware as a Sr. MTS, Samar has a strong background in software engineering, particularly in the development of push notification services. In his previous role at Visa as a Senior Software Engineer, Samar was responsible for developing push notification services that enabled the sending of alerts, notifications, and messages to Android/iOS devices via Google Cloud Messaging and Apple Push Notification Services. He also has experience in writing server-side code for mobile applications using Restful APIs, Spring modules, Apache Cassandra, Kafka, Zookeeper, Spark, Hazelcast, and EHCache. Samar has a strong understanding of RDMS and NoSQL system design and implementation. Samar has also worked at Altimetrik as a Senior Software Engineer, where he designed and implemented large-scale distributed messaging queues using Apache Kafka and Zookeeper. He has also designed and implemented a highly distributed caching module using Apache Hazelcast. Samar has a Master's Degree in Computer Software Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University. Samar has a diverse tech stack, including experience in Spring, Cassandra, Kafka, Spark, NoSQL, iOS, Android, microservices, AWS, integration, Java, Spring Boot, backend, and web. He is a strong advocate of Agile practices and Test/Behavior Driven Development techniques to provide reliable, working code early and often. Samar has also spoken at a number of conferences and meetups on various Spring and Real-time Data Processing-related topics at Visa. With his extensive experience and expertise, Samar is a valuable asset to any organization.