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Prajawal Kumar Pandey

Software Engineer @ LinkedIn | Core Infrastructure | AI-Powered Platform Engineering | Distributed Systems | Kubernetes | gRPC

Bengaluru

5+ years of work experience

LinkedIn
Dec 20241 yr 10 mosPresent

Bengaluru

Led migration of Control Plane Apps from RestLi to gRPC, achieving 4X improvement in API latency and 2.7X gain in throughput across high-availability services. Designed and owned AI-driven automation skill enabling one-click microservice migration from Nuage 2.0 to Nuage 3.0, reducing developer effort by 75%. Engineered Crossplane-based Kubernetes controller for fully Git-native, declarative infrastructure orchestration with zero manual overhead. Built end-to-end Helm chart discovery pipeline with automated manifest rendering and retrieval across multi-environment rollouts. Drove SLO/SLI observability initiatives across the Control Plane team — instrumenting fault-tolerant service metrics and enhancing operational reliability for critical services.
Hevo Data
Sep 20231 yr 4 mosDec 2024

Bengaluru

Tekion Corp
Oct 20221 yrSep 2023

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

- Part of Backend SDE team designing the integration of OEMs and third parties with Tekion, and handling Europe expansion. - Built and Managed 3 microservices from scratch - Built an efficient and self-executing process that autonomously handles dealer data migration after the onboarding phase thereby eliminating the manual intervention by atleast 95% - Independently built .NET applications to run locally on dealership machines, establishing seamless communication with Tekion Cloud DMS. - Built a Platformized Kafka micro-service helping in integration of any interface in couple of minutes and saving code changes required by 60%
Tekion Corp
Jul 20211 yr 4 mosOct 2022

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

- Part of Backend SDE team handling the Parts integration of OEMs and other third party companies with Tekion, providing and using services where Tekion fits in the middle to help at one single point. - Drove the implementation of dealership onboarding, automating all the configuration setup, resulting in a drastic reduction of onboarding time and manual efforts by 99%. - Integrated over 9+ OEMs and 10+ Third-Parties in last 2 years - Big Clients: Honda, BMW, Porsche, Ferrari, Volkswagen.
Tekion Corp
Jan 20217 mosJul 2021

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Part of Backend SDE team creating an Internal web application for the use of organization, where each employee can book some spots at any office location for them till upcoming 5 working days, based on their team (following with all realtime hinderances and covid guidelines).

Prajawal’s AI Stack

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Education

Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science

Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati

20174 yrs2021

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Headline

Software Engineer @ LinkedIn | Core Infrastructure | AI-Powered Platform Engineering | Distributed Systems | Kubernetes | gRPC

About

I build the infrastructure platforms other engineers build on. Hi Reader!! I have 5.5+ years of experience. At LinkedIn's Core Infrastructure team, I architect control plane systems, gRPC gateways, and Kubernetes-based IaC pipelines at scale. I led the migration of Control Plane Apps from RestLi to gRPC — achieving 4X latency improvement and 2.7X throughput gains — and designed an AI-driven skill that cut microservice migration effort by 75%. This is where my passion for deep platform and distributed systems engineering truly crystallised. Before LinkedIn, I was sharpening the fundamentals. At Hevo Data, I led real-time orchestration frameworks with strict reliability requirements. At Tekion, I built automation systems that eliminated 99% of manual intervention across dealer onboarding pipelines. Strong in algorithms, system design, and backend engineering. Increasingly AI-first in how I think about platform problems. B.Tech CSE, IIIT Guwahati. Open to senior platform and distributed systems roles globally.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

cursor

Work experience

Software Engineer at LinkedIn, Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru, Led migration of Control Plane Apps from RestLi to gRPC, achieving 4X improvement in API latency and 2.7X gain in throughput across high-availability services. Designed and owned AI-driven automation skill enabling one-click microservice migration from Nuage 2.0 to Nuage 3.0, reducing developer effort by 75%. Engineered Crossplane-based Kubernetes controller for fully Git-native, declarative infrastructure orchestration with zero manual overhead. Built end-to-end Helm chart discovery pipeline with automated manifest rendering and retrieval across multi-environment rollouts. Drove SLO/SLI observability initiatives across the Control Plane team — instrumenting fault-tolerant service metrics and enhancing operational reliability for critical services.

SDE-2 at Hevo Data, Sep 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru

Software Engineer at Tekion Corp, Oct 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, - Part of Backend SDE team designing the integration of OEMs and third parties with Tekion, and handling Europe expansion. - Built and Managed 3 microservices from scratch - Built an efficient and self-executing process that autonomously handles dealer data migration after the onboarding phase thereby eliminating the manual intervention by atleast 95% - Independently built .NET applications to run locally on dealership machines, establishing seamless communication with Tekion Cloud DMS. - Built a Platformized Kafka micro-service helping in integration of any interface in couple of minutes and saving code changes required by 60%

Associate Software Engineer at Tekion Corp, Jul 2021 - Oct 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, - Part of Backend SDE team handling the Parts integration of OEMs and other third party companies with Tekion, providing and using services where Tekion fits in the middle to help at one single point. - Drove the implementation of dealership onboarding, automating all the configuration setup, resulting in a drastic reduction of onboarding time and manual efforts by 99%. - Integrated over 9+ OEMs and 10+ Third-Parties in last 2 years - Big Clients: Honda, BMW, Porsche, Ferrari, Volkswagen.

Software Engineer Intern at Tekion Corp, Jan 2021 - Jul 2021 · 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Part of Backend SDE team creating an Internal web application for the use of organization, where each employee can book some spots at any office location for them till upcoming 5 working days, based on their team (following with all realtime hinderances and covid guidelines).

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati

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