Resume
| Prakhar Birla

Prakhar is an Engineering Leader with over 14 years of experience designing and delivering scalable backend systems, microservices platforms, and AI-enabled products. His expertise spans event-driven architectures, platform engineering, cloud-native infrastructure, observability, and AI SDLC practices. CKAD-certified, he combines hands-on engineering with pre-sales, solution design, and technical leadership to build reliable, future-ready systems.

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Experience

to Present

NagarroAssociate Principal Consultant

  • Spent 1.5 years working for a startup in New York developing a product for business process mapping.
  • Led a team of 5 high performing engineers using AI assisted tools.

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Personal Goal PursuitCarrer break

  • I took some time off to focus on my health and some personal goals.

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Celebal TechnologiesPrincipal Consultant

  • Responsible for envisioning, creating and delivering a new platform for real‐time analysis in contact centers.
  • Designated as product owner and engineering lead.
  • Designed the overall system architecture as a real‐time analysis platform for data scientists based on event‐driven micro‐services pattern.
  • Utilized many open‐source technologies to create a cloud‐agnostic and on‐premises deploy‐able product.
  • Conceived and created several tools and methodologies for developer and testing enablement.
  • Responsible for R&D, DevOps during bootstrap mode.
  • Delivered a scalable product with flexible configuration, solid reliability, deep observability and superb performance.

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Celebal TechnologiesSenior Consultant

  • Responsible for pre‐sales, design and delivery of diverse solutions for enterprise customers on Microsoft Azure.
  • Led a team of 25 developers with skill sets in backend, chatbot, frontend and data scientists.
  • Created numerous conversational apps (text and voice) with a rich exposure to GenAI, NLP, MS Teams, Outlook, SAP, Salesforce and ITSM.
  • Pioneered use of GenAI, influenced and guided the entire department to upskill; eventually established a data science team.

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Chakra BiotechFounding Partner

Chakra Biotech is an agricultural enterprise focusing on mushroom cultivation and research, spawn production. We also created several low cost and high tech IoT systems for grow room automation. The business was eventually sold and now focuses on indoors saffron cultivation in addition to mushrooms.

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CarDekho SEAProduct Lead

As the first employee of CarBay Indonesia, I managed products catering to Car Dealers of new and old vehicles. Responsibilities included market research and strategy, product management, customer relationship management, business development.

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Business Intelligence TechnologiesSoftware Engineer

Worked in a multi-faceted role at a software services company, in Jakarta, Indonesia; focusing on Microsoft AX (aka Microsoft Dynamics 365) and related solutions.

  • Involved in project management, development, pre-sales and creating proposals.
  • Completed Microsoft AX certification with full score.
  • Trained for Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
  • Awarded Employee of the Year for 2014.

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CommonFloorProduct Engineer

CommonFloor is a realestate listing website which was acquired by Quikr. During my time, the company grew from 35 to 800 employees.

  • Customized Apache Solr v4 to run multiple parallel quries for a slotted sort algorithm.
  • Built the first Property Map Search in India using Google Maps, Backbone.js & Underscore.js.
  • Proactively contributed in planning the required infrastructure on Amazon Web Services.
  • Owned the property search and detail features on the backend.
  • Authored several JavaScript tools including Infinite scrolling, Client side error capturing.
  • PHP MVC using Zend Framework.
  • Mentored several peers and interns.

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CommonFloorProduct Engineer

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Reliance CommunicationsIntern

My first experience in the corporate world! I worked hard to build trust and ended up building tools for repetitive work.

  • Created an Inventory management system, using PHP and MySQL.
  • Automated data ingestion from SAP into Excel workbook using macros and formulas.

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Dinit SoftwaresCo-founder

Dinit started as a passion project with two school friends assembling PCs and grew to multiple licenced sofware products, before getting forcefully shutdown by my father so we would focus on studies instead of work.

  • Built things that solved real world problems.
  • Sales across the world.
  • Popular desktop freewares included FlyAway, DeskTools.
  • Popular licensed PHP scripts included an Address Book Importer, a pre-OpenID login using Microsoft/Google/Yahoo (I called it MGY login pack).

Education

References

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