Summary
Chethan Prakash is a seasoned software engineer and technical architect with 14 years of experience building scalable, maintainable systems at Yahoo, Thoughtworks, Navi Technologies, and Amazon, based in San Jose, California. He currently serves as a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon and previously led architecture at Navi, where he helped build the lending platform used by 5 million users. There he implemented a full underwriting platform with rule engines and ML models and managed distributed teams across India and Indonesia to ship core data pipelines, fraud engines, and auditing frameworks. His core strengths include distributed systems, data pipelines, microservices, web security, and scalable CQRS/event-sourced architectures powered by Kafka. At Yahoo, he delivered a multi-tenant Storm-based workflow engine, near-real-time data pipelines, and security-focused ad tech features. A hands-on leader, he mentors engineers through bootcamps and has bridged teams across continents to deliver high-impact software in fast-paced environments.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BE, E&C, BE, E&C at The National Institute Of Engineering, Mysore
P U, Physics,Chemistry,Maths,Electronics, P U, Physics,Chemistry,Maths,Electronics at D V S(I)