Prateek Agarwal

GitHub Projects

• prat0318/json_resume » Details at http://jsonresu.me
  • Ruby library to generate resume from JSON to HTML, pdf, md, tex formats.
  • Around 1K stars on Github. Front page of Hacker News
  • Current resume has been generated using json_resume.
• prat0318/2048-tetris » Live at 2048-tetris.com
  • Wrote a Tetris variant of 2048 game, 1M+ unique visits
  • Front page of Hacker News(~150 pts), mentioned in TechCrunch.
• prat0318/gitator » Live at Gitator.com
  • Finds relevant repositories based on an user's GitHub profile.
  • Written in Ruby on Sinatra and uses Github's Octokit gem

Technical Skills

• Programming Languages: Python Java
• PaaS/CI/CD tools: Kubernetes Mesos Helm Charts Jenkins Ansible Zipkin
• Monitoring/Logging Tools: Appdynamics Prometheus Grafana
• PaaS Systems: AWS (Terraform, Kops) Bare-Metal (Nutanix, Kismatic)
• Datastores/Queues: Cassandra Kafka ElasticSearch Zookeeper Redis Consul

Professional Experience

• Senior Staff Software Engineer, Uber, Bangalore, IN. (Jul. 2023 – Current)
• Staff Software Engineer, Uber, Bangalore, IN. (Jan. 2021 – Jun. 2023)
• Senior Software Engineer, Uber, Bangalore, IN. (Jan. 2019 – Dec. 2020)
  • Leading the migration of Uber’s Data Lake (~500PB Storage, ~1000K Cores Compute) from On Premise to Cloud without customer disruption (a multi-year effort).
  • Responsible for Disaster Recovery Strategy for the complete Data Platform.
  • Built and Managed the Storage / HDFS team in India from scratch.
  • Responsible for high availability and durability of Uber HDFS clusters which physically store ~1.5EB data (One of the biggest in the Industry).
  • Working on various Cost Efficiency efforts to keep the clusters running at their maximum utilization.
  • Led the Kafka Security and performance projects to adhere to the PII, PSD2 and SOX compliance.
  • Technologies got to work on: HDFS YARN Airflow Kafka Zookeeper
• Staff Software Engineer, Appdynamics, Inc., Bangalore, IN. (Nov. 2017 – Dec. 2018)
  • Part of the Common Platform Services team.
  • Architected the Kubernetes deployment framework to make it multi-tenanted.
  • Designed workflows to easily provision new Kubernetes clusters on both On-Premise and AWS.
  • Maintain and provide tooling around Kubernetes workflow - to optimize resource utilization.
  • Technologies got to work on: Kubernetes Kafka Helm Kops Python Jenkins Ansible
• Senior Software Engineer, Appdynamics, Inc., San Francisco, USA (Apr, 2017 – Nov, 2017)
  • Built the Kubernetes deployment framework to break monolith Platform services into micro-services.
  • Built Monitoring/Alerting/Logging solutions to efficiently monitor deployments on Kubernetes.
• Software Engineer, Yelp, Inc., San Francisco, USA (Jan. 2015 – Apr. 2017)
  • Part of the Distributed Systems Infrastructure team.
  • Provided tooling around NoSQL datastores - Cassandra, ElasticSearch.
  • Built Zipkin (Distributed tracing) infrastructure at Yelp to debug service latencies.
  • Wrote pyramid_zipkin, swagger_zipkin packages to easily integrate Zipkin with existing services.
  • Co-authored bravado package to integrate python services with Swagger v2.0 specifications.
  • Won hackathon award for building Yelp’s onboarding tracker tool.
  • Technologies got to work on: Python Cassandra Elasticsearch Redis Swagger2.0 Zipkin
• Software Engineer Intern, Yelp, Inc., San Francisco (May, 2014 – Aug, 2014)
  • Wrote a Python package http://github.com/Yelp/swagger-py to build dynamic client library for a service. It is currently being used in Yelp's production environment.
  • It reads the swagger schema to get the service specifications.
  • Built Hackathon project to call Yelp's public APIs directly from browser (with OAuth support).
  • Technologies got to work on: Python Swagger v1.2 twisted
• Graduate Research Assistant, CTR, UT Austin (Sept. 2013 – Jan. 2014)
  • Developed a common web interface http://unitydatabase.com to search through different datasets.
  • Technologies got to work on: Python Django South PostgreSQL
• Software Development Engineer, Flipkart, India (Jun. 2011 – Jul. 2013)
  • Wrote a ruby gem Morsel to traverse through active record trees to purge old records. It helped in limiting the production database size and keeping the data clean.
  • Was part of the Supply chain team which remodelled and built a new one from scratch. It now scales to around 10X compared to the older system.
  • Technologies got to work on: Ruby Java Pig Active Records MySQL
• Software Engineer, IBM Software Labs, India (Jul. 2009 – Jun. 2011)
  • Handled high priority issues for JDBC client driver for IBM Informix database.
  • Was awarded Smart CADian award for resolving an obscure deadlock situation, making Informix JDBC driver more robust.
  • Technologies got to work on: Java IBM Informix IBM DB2

Education

Graduate Courses Taken

Distributed Computing	Advanced Operating Systems
Multicore Programming	Advanced Programming Tools

Research Experience

• Graduate Research Assistant, Texas Advanced Computing Center, UT Austin, USA. (Jan. 2015 – May 2015)
  • Added docker integration to web portal digitalrocksportal.org to streamline the deployment process.
  • Technologies got to work on: Python, Django, Docker, Docker-compose, Celery
• Undergraduate project, Sanyog Lab, IIT Kharagpur (Jul. 2008 – May 2009)
  • Designing and Formal modelling of embedded systems for project Sanyog.
  • Skills Developed: Low level system design, theorem verification using Prolog and Coq
• Summer Intern, Network Systems Lab, IIT Kharagpur (May 2008 – Jun. 2008)
  • Design and simulation of currently published Pull-based Freshness Schemes in C++.

Other Personal Projects

• Designed product Omerta, a multi-user chat room application in j2me using Sun Wireless Toolkit platform.
  • Was awarded 1^st position for the product in Envision, Product Innovation Contest, IIT KGP.
  • Was awarded 1^st position for the product in Javawise, J2ME s/w Development Contest at IIT Kharagpur, 2008 and 2009 continuously.

Academic Achievements

• Was among the top 5% in the institute merit list of the undergraduate batch at IIT Kharagpur.
• Secured 383rd Rank in IIT-JEE 2005, an exam conducted by Indian Institute of Technology(s).

Extra Curricular Awards

• Was awarded 2^nd position in Bionetics, Coding Event, Genesis 09 at IIT Kharagpur.
• Microsoft Student Partner of IIT Kharagpur from the period July 08 – June 09.