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Prashant Aghara

Senior Software Engineer @Zopsmart | Java · Spring Boot · LangGraph | Building High-Throughput Backend Systems

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4+ years of work experience

ZopSmart
Apr 20251 yr 5 mosPresent

India

- Drove a CosmosDB-to-PostgreSQL migration for a 10B+ record catalog, reducing monthly cloud infrastructure costs by ~78% - Architected scalable backend services in Java and Spring Boot handling 1M+ real-time item updates daily across Kroger's retail catalog - Led design reviews and mentored 3 junior engineers, reducing critical production incidents by establishing clearer service contracts and review gates - Introduced Grafana/Datadog observability standards across the team, cutting mean time to detect (MTTD) for production issues
ZopSmart
Apr 20241 yr 1 moApr 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Designed event-driven microservices with Spring Boot and Kafka, processing 1M+ daily real-time retail events with sub-second latency targets - Adopted Azure AI Search, improving catalog query response times by 40–60% - Built PySpark ETL workflows in Databricks to support large-scale catalog analytics across 10B+ item records
ZopSmart
Jul 20221 yr 10 mosApr 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Designed Cassandra and CosmosDB schemas for high-volume transactional data supporting real-time catalog operations at scale - Built RESTful APIs in Java enabling integration across frontend systems and third-party retail data providers - Automated deployment pipelines with GitHub Actions and Harness, reducing manual release overhead

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Education

Dharmsinh Desai University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology

Dharmsinh Desai University

20184 yrs2022

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Headline

Senior Software Engineer @Zopsmart | Java · Spring Boot · LangGraph | Building High-Throughput Backend Systems

About

Senior Software Engineer with 4+ years building and scaling high-throughput backend systems in Java and Spring Boot. At ZopSmart, I lead backend engineering for Kroger's Item Watchtower — a catalog of 10B+ records processing 1M+ real-time item updates daily. Two highlights from production: a CosmosDB-to-PostgreSQL migration that cut monthly cloud spend by ~78%, and Azure AI Search adoption that improved response times by 40–60%. Outside of production systems, I build AI-powered platforms end-to-end — combining Python AI layers (LangGraph, LangChain, RAG pipelines, vector stores) with Java/Spring Boot backends. Recent projects include a multi-agent financial analysis platform, an enterprise Text-to-SQL system with self-correction loops, and a RAG-based customer support agent with semantic retrieval.

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AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Software Development Engineer at ZopSmart, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos, India, - Drove a CosmosDB-to-PostgreSQL migration for a 10B+ record catalog, reducing monthly cloud infrastructure costs by ~78% - Architected scalable backend services in Java and Spring Boot handling 1M+ real-time item updates daily across Kroger's retail catalog - Led design reviews and mentored 3 junior engineers, reducing critical production incidents by establishing clearer service contracts and review gates - Introduced Grafana/Datadog observability standards across the team, cutting mean time to detect (MTTD) for production issues

SDE2 at ZopSmart, Apr 2024 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Designed event-driven microservices with Spring Boot and Kafka, processing 1M+ daily real-time retail events with sub-second latency targets - Adopted Azure AI Search, improving catalog query response times by 40–60% - Built PySpark ETL workflows in Databricks to support large-scale catalog analytics across 10B+ item records

Software Developer at ZopSmart, Jul 2022 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Designed Cassandra and CosmosDB schemas for high-volume transactional data supporting real-time catalog operations at scale - Built RESTful APIs in Java enabling integration across frontend systems and third-party retail data providers - Automated deployment pipelines with GitHub Actions and Harness, reducing manual release overhead

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Dharmsinh Desai University