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Prakhar Seth

SDE-2 @ Network18 Media & Investments Limited | Designing Scalable Microservices

Noida

6+ years of work experience

Network18 Media & Investments Limited
Jan 20242 yrs 7 mosPresent

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Network18 Media & Investments Limited
Jan 20242 yrs 7 mosPresent

• OPS18 Platform: Owned design and development of scalable microservices enabling end-to-end operations digitization; reduced process completion time by 40% and improved resource utilization by 54%. • Conducted 200+ production PR/code reviews, enforcing backend design standards, scalability best practices, and improving overall code quality, reducing production defects by 30%. • Enhanced high-throughput Notification Service handling 100,000+ daily events/emails with 99.99% delivery reliability. • Implemented Temporal-based workflow orchestration, reducing cross-service failures by 25%. • Improved API performance by 60% through performance profiling, New Relic monitoring, and database/query optimization. • Drove architectural decisions around workflow orchestration, concurrency control, and service communication patterns. • Improved system reliability and observability using structured logging, monitoring, and failure isolation strategies. Content Factory Platform (Real-Time Media Processing) • Designed and scaled a real-time media ingestion platform enabling distributed processing of image, video, and multimedia content. • Implemented bounded concurrency pipelines allowing sequential processing per content with parallel workload execution. • Built resilient media workflows with retry handling, structured logging, and failure tracking, improving platform reliability.
PayTabs
Dec 20221 yr 2 mosJan 2024

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

PwC Acceleration Centers
Aug 20225 mosDec 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

PwC Acceleration Centers
Aug 20211 yr 1 moAug 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Cognizant
Jan 20216 mosJun 2021

Pune, Maharashtra, India

RapidAI Vision
Aug 20205 mosDec 2020

Delhi, India

Education

SRM IST Chennai

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

SRM IST Chennai

20174 yrs2021
SRM Institute of Science & technology

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering

SRM Institute of Science & technology

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Headline

SDE-2 @ Network18 Media & Investments Limited | Designing Scalable Microservices

About

Graduated from SRM University and SRM Institute of Science & Technology with degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, building a strong foundation for a career in software development. Proficient in integration testing, Apache Kafka, and Kafka Streams, supported by certifications in Python, Machine Learning, and SEO from esteemed institutions. Currently contributing as SDE-2 at Network18 Media & Investments Limited, focusing on scalable microservices development and backend optimization. Played a key role in reducing process completion time and improving resource utilization through strategic workflow orchestration and API performance enhancements. Dedicated to leveraging technical skills for impactful, innovative solutions in software engineering.

Location

Noida

Work experience

SDE-2 at Network18 Media & Investments Limited, Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Software Engineer at Network18 Media & Investments Limited, Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos, • OPS18 Platform: Owned design and development of scalable microservices enabling end-to-end operations digitization; reduced process completion time by 40% and improved resource utilization by 54%. • Conducted 200+ production PR/code reviews, enforcing backend design standards, scalability best practices, and improving overall code quality, reducing production defects by 30%. • Enhanced high-throughput Notification Service handling 100,000+ daily events/emails with 99.99% delivery reliability. • Implemented Temporal-based workflow orchestration, reducing cross-service failures by 25%. • Improved API performance by 60% through performance profiling, New Relic monitoring, and database/query optimization. • Drove architectural decisions around workflow orchestration, concurrency control, and service communication patterns. • Improved system reliability and observability using structured logging, monitoring, and failure isolation strategies. Content Factory Platform (Real-Time Media Processing) • Designed and scaled a real-time media ingestion platform enabling distributed processing of image, video, and multimedia content. • Implemented bounded concurrency pipelines allowing sequential processing per content with parallel workload execution. • Built resilient media workflows with retry handling, structured logging, and failure tracking, improving platform reliability.

Associate Software Engineer at PayTabs, Dec 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Associate 2 at PwC Acceleration Centers, Aug 2022 - Dec 2022 · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Associate at PwC Acceleration Centers, Aug 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Program Analyst Trainee at Cognizant, Jan 2021 - Jun 2021 · 6 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Deep learning Intern at RapidAI Vision, Aug 2020 - Dec 2020 · 5 mos, Delhi, India

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, SRM IST Chennai

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering, SRM Institute of Science & technology