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# Ajay Prakash on Tal

## Headline

LMTS @ Salesforce

## About

Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience architecting large\-scale, highly available distributed systems at Salesforce, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, VMware, and Goldman Sachs\. Led migration of 960K\+ customer orgs to enterprise\-grade DDoS protection infrastructure \(L3/L4/L7\) and reduced operational costs by 40% through HPA\-driven redesign of critical event\-routing services\. Deep expertise in event\-driven architecture \(Kafka, gRPC\), search infrastructure \(OpenSearch, ingestion pipelines\), and multi\-cloud platforms \(OCI, GCP\)\. Proven track record owning systems end\-to\-end — from design and POCs through production scale\-out — while mentoring engineers and driving cross\-team technical direction\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

cursor

gemini

langchain

openai

claudecode

## Work experience

LMTS at Salesforce, Mar 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce\-India, Mar 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Lead successful migration of 960K Orgs to Salesforce Edge, securing millions of daily customer interaction through enterprise grade L3/L4 and L7 DDoS protection\. Improved mean time to handover SSE connections by 60% by introducing Orchestration of SSE handover of SCRT2 Event Router\. Reduced operational cost by 40% by enabling HPA on SCRT2 Event Router\.

Principal Software Engineer at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Jul 2022 \- Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Principal Software Engineer at ORACLE INDIA Pvt\. Ltd\., Jul 2022 \- Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Leading Ingestion Pipeline service for OCI OpenSearch Team\. Design of different sources including Kafka and Http Source\. Design and implementation of OCI Object Storage Source as ingestion pipeline feature in Data Prepper which help reduce operational cost by 80%\. POCs for using object store source in data prepper for gen\-ai use case\. Design and implementation of Source coordination Store to support Multi Node Architecture which support throughput up\-to 200mb per sec\. Leading Design of Scale Down Open Search Clusters\. Design and Implementation of BYOC for Open Search cluster\. Design and implementation of Notification Plugin in OCI OpenSearch using ONS\. Reduced impact to live traffic by 50% with help of Maintenance Notification\. Collaborated with Product Owners to understand requirements, leading development from design to delivery, ensuring high\-quality product releases\. Reduced P95 latency by 40% with routing traffic to Coordinating nodes\. Proactive in code review and design review of team members\. Mentoring team members, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and collaborative problem solving\.

SMTS at VMware, Oct 2020 \- Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

## Education

BTech, Computer Science, Cochin University of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering, School of Engineering

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