Prashanth R. Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Oakland, California, Us

Risk & Fraud - CK Money- Led the engineering team to build capabilities and scale the fraud intelligence platform on top of core banking. Mentored and grew the team across the full distributed stack.- Created the long term engineering strategy and vision for the fraud servicing team with a spotlight on capabilities, speed and data. Played a key advisor role to the architecture and design across the riskengineering org.

Oakland, California, Us

tl;dr; Empowering financial progress for everyone by contributing to the development of core products and services.Money Platform (Banking Product)- Led the product & engineering team to launch a cash back rewards program that rewards users monetarily for using their debit card at various participating merchants. Built and scaled the transaction and reward detection system (QPS 50K) along with their respective workflows. Also launched a payments microservice from scratch to handle realtime payments for rewards earned along with notifications and built in resiliency and failure mode handling. Improved overall user retention on the app by over 8% positively impacting revenue.- Participated in critical architecture, design and implementation of several key features related to the money platform (banking) to help members automatically pay their bills and transfer money securelyand easily. Also lead the project to build an asynchronous data and event processing pipeline for real time events using webhooks (mTLS, edge, REST) and service data bus (kafka).

Oakland, California, Us

Credit Cards Product- Lead the effort to build a new reviews product experience (think Yelp for financial products) from the ground up and migrated off the legacy monolith tech stack. Also added several new features including but not limited to security features such as rate-limiting, CSRF protection etc. as well as several scalability features such as in-memory caching and background processing for data heavy tasks.- Increased overall engagement with the credit cards feature on the platform by 25% driven by building an immersive and personal recommendation based product experience allowing users to shop forrelevant financial products using data from their their transaction history and wallet.

San Mateo, Ca, Us

B2B Data Intelligence Platform - Rakuten Intelligence- Architected, designed and built a B2B platform with several web applications, services and tools for a suite of products that provide market research insights allowing businesses to make decisions, acquire info about consumer behavior etc. directly from the platform.- Created a real time search tool built on elasticsearch to speed up internal querying of data which saved the company several hours per week and was used every day. - Built, scaled and maintained a real time data processing pipeline for raw data in the order of up to a terabyte (1TB) per client. Involved streaming chunks of encrypted data to avoid losses.- Was responsible for leading a hybrid engineering team (local & remote) of varying skill levels . Also contributed toward deployment, continuous integration, automation and process improvement on a daily basis.

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Contributed to the active development of product, services and tools for our customer facing B2B intelligence platform

Houston, Texas, Us

Lift IQ Production Life Cycle Management Service- Developed various features for a product, designed to monitor live data from oilfield artificial lift equipment. Implemented algorithm to detect equipment downtime and automatically record events of interest to help prevent failure. Improved user efficiency by 50%Production Rule Based Engine For Domain Applications- Designed and implemented a domain agnostic, extensible data driven rule based engine that executes a set of business rules based on data behavior. Created using the NRules framework

Gainesville, Florida, Us

Worked as a website admin and IT assistant for the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Florida. Helped maintain the department website, performed server administration tasks and provided technical support staff and students

E-learning platform- Created an online class attendance plug in for the company's customized version of the open source education system, Moodle. Wrote scripts to automate deployments.

Arlington, Tx, Us

Tutored students in Computer Programming and College Mathematics courses at the University of Texas at Arlington through UTSI (University Tutorial Supplemental Instruction).

Abu Dhabi, Ae

Worked as a trainee in the IT department at Sorouh Real Estate P.J.S.C (Abu Dhabi, UAE). Was exposed to various areas of IT such as Business Intelligence, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), network and system architecture as well as hardware support.

Masters, Computer Engineering

Baccalaureate, Computer Science & Engineering