About

Vishal Prakash is an experienced Software Engineer with a specialization in building large scale distributed systems with low latency and high availability. He is currently working as a Software Engineer III at Google, specializing in Site Reliability Engineering. Vishal's expertise lies in the backend/infrastructure domain, and he is always interested in devising better problem-solving methods for challenging tasks. He has a willingness to learn and can quickly understand and apply new information. Vishal is a "go-getter" who persistently follows up until a problem is fully resolved. Vishal brings first-rate communication skills - both oral and written - to any position he takes up. He has a good sense of humor and is committed to delivering quality work. His background in technical training and education could be of use to any organization. In his previous roles, Vishal has worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Grab and a Software Engineer at Directi. At Directi, he designed and implemented a Big Data Analytic Tool from scratch, which was used by the company to visualize 95% of its data. Vishal implemented the front-end in AngularJS with an interface based on the Strut framework and the backend in Java, serving around 100,000 queries per day. Vishal has also implemented a join on different databases in Druid, which improved report visualization and decision-making for the business analysts. He optimized queries based on table size, intervals, storage type, and segment size to help serve more queries in less time and allocate resources evenly. Vishal has also implemented access control for users at different domains and data levels, making the data secure for the company. Vishal holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from BIT, and he completed his high school education at Delhi Public School - Bokaro. His technical skills include Software Engineering, SRE, Backend, Infra, SQL, Big Data, Frontend, Java, and AngularJS. Vishal has 6.61 years of relevant experience in the industry.