About

Wed Prakash is an organised and self-motivated Big Data Engineer with over 6 years of experience in designing and implementing distributed, real-time, and batch processing data solutions. He believes that data is the oldest art, insight, and truth in the history of mankind, and his keen interest in developing solutions has led him to fall in love with his work. Wed has built and scaled data platforms at Slice and Ezetap, and he is currently building a Data Platform from scratch at SALT to touch and change the lives of millions. His current role as a Data Engineer at SALT involves ML Engineering, Event Data Lake, and Data Pipeline. At Slice, Wed re-architected the data that was infinitely growing to reduce the overall cost and increase the performance of the system. He processed real-time transaction data using Spark streaming to prevent fraudulent activity and used Spark Jobs to periodically compute the feature matrix and store them in a feature store for re-predicting lending and credit eligibility of users. At Ezetap Mobile Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Wed built a data pipeline to ingest data from various data sources to a data warehouse, reducing time by 80% in serving data to business customers for reporting and analytical needs. He also developed efficient data stores to cater to 80% of daily reporting needs, reduced query latency, and streamlined day-to-day reporting needs. Wed holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from Siddaganga Institute of Technology. His tech stack includes Data Engineering, AWS, Spark, Java, Apache Airflow, Elastic Search, MySQL, Kafka, Spring, Search, ETL, Big Data, Python, Backend, MongoDB, Software Engineer, test, Spring Boot, UI, Web, Amazon Athena, Kubernetes, Docker, Javascript, Microservices, Salesforce, Integration, Mobile, and Senior Software Engineer. With his relevant experience of 6.86 years, Wed is a valuable asset to any team looking to build and scale data platforms and solutions.