Saurav Prakash
CALGARY,AB
Summary
Results-driven Director of Software Engineering with 2.5+ years leading high-impact startup teams with a co-op leadership style. 7+ years as a skilled individual contributor.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Software Engineering
Collab.inc
05.2021 - Current
- Payment Processing Mastery: I built and maintained company’s AWS Redshift based payment engine and handled $400M+ revenue distribution across 2 organizations, 16 countries, and 100,000+ users.
- Data Pipeline Leadership: I led the creation of company's first Data Pipeline which promoted Data Democracy across internal teams as well as decoupled operational apps from BI needs.
- Compliance and Due Diligence Lead: I led annual compliance audits and Investor's due diligence. I also ensured regulatory compliance and demonstrated technical robustness.
- Team Scaling and Operations Head: I scaled the team from 2 to 10 engineers. I managed their training, day-to-day operations, growth tracks, hiring and also did tough downsizing decisions when needed.
- Individual Contributor: Collaborated with stakeholders and handled diverse IT tasks across all 7 of our systems.
Software Engineer (Various Levels)
Collab.inc
05.2018 - 04.2021
- Started as an intermediate full stack software engineer and over the years grew up to the team lead role.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software products on schedule - used Ruby on Rails (Heroku), React (NextJS), PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch and AWS Redshift.
Full Stack Software Developer
TDC Digital Media
08.2016 - 04.2018
- I built and maintained three Ruby on Rails apps for this early age startup.
- The startup failed to take off and I moved on.
Network Engineer
Ericsson Global Services
01.2014 - 07.2014
- Worked as a Network Engineer, contributing to building the cellular network KPI dashboard for Brazil clients.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York06.2016
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
National Institute of Technology
Patna06.2013
Skills
- Technical leadership and collaboration
- Team scaling and operations management
- Compliance and due Diligence
- Software development - Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, React and with DevOps best practices
Publications
- Shukla, D., Phoha, V.V., Prakash, S. (2019). Looking Through Your Smartphone Screen to Steal Your Pin Using a 3D Camera. In: Arai, K., Kapoor, S., Bhatia, R. (eds) Intelligent Computing. SAI 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 857. Springer, Cham.
- Prakash, Saurav & Abhishek, Kumar & Yadav, Yogesh & Singh, Mrityunjai. (2014). A New Framework for Efficient Feature Extraction and Feature Identification for Cancer Detection in Prostate MRI Images.
- Prakash, Saurav. A Brief Review on Recent Trends in Image Restoration. Research Developments in Computer Vision and Image Processing: Methodologies and Applications, edited by Rajeev Srivastava, et al., IGI Global, (2014), pp. 77-92.
Timeline
Director of Software Engineering
Collab.inc
05.2021 - Current
Software Engineer (Various Levels)
Collab.inc
05.2018 - 04.2021
Full Stack Software Developer
TDC Digital Media
08.2016 - 04.2018
Network Engineer
Ericsson Global Services
01.2014 - 07.2014
Master of Science - Computer Science
Syracuse University
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
National Institute of Technology
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