Prashant Khanduri


I Build Products - Engineering Expertise, Cross-Department Collaboration, Roadmaping, Budget Management, Scalability Planning, Team Building, Mentor

Currently travelling between San Fransisco, USA 🇺🇸 and New Delhi, India 🇮🇳

About Me

Hi there! I'm Prashant Khanduri
I'm originally from India. Although most of my school days were spent in India (New Delhi), a few of them slipped into Nepal (Kathmandu), Canada (Waterloo) and United States (Los Angeles)
On a day to day basis, I tell computers what to do and they seem to obey me (for the most part). I end up getting paid for some of it, the other portion ends up on a public domain
I also blog, but I haven't really scoped out the topics I'd like to talk about. For now, I'm just using it to collect ideas that I find interesting. I hope someday a pattern will emerge
You know a lot about me now! .. Ok your turn

Experience

  • 2018 - current
    Co-Founder / CTO
    An open source tool that allows developers to catch bugs before they are pushed to production
    Define the open core and hosted strategies for Diffy
    Architect the hosted solution with a focus on generating review insights

    San Fransisco, CA -- NCR, India
  • 2015 - 2018
    Engineering Manager
    Risk and Underwriting
    The team is responsible for building our own proprietary financial platform, as well as our real-time high-throughput data processing pipeline
    Build and maintain the underwriting pipeline for all product flows
    Architect the offline infrastructure to be used by Data Science for iterating and improving credit and fraud models

    San Fransisco, CA
  • 2014 - 2015
    Senior Software Engineer
    Insights & Intelligence
    The team is responsible for building an intelligent guide that helps our users make good health choices
    Building the core intelligence for the Smart Coach brand
    Building the Insights system and the internal CRM system to manage the insight content

    San Fransisco, CA
  • 2012 - 2014
    Full Stack Generalist Engineer
    Application Engagement Team
    Team's goal was to keep the user engagement up and unblock any onboarding issues (growing the monthly active users)
    Designed and developed a notification platform for our software
    Worked on building the analytics and reporting framework

    San Fransisco, CA
  • 2009 - 2012
    Software Development Engineer II
    Bing - Core Page Relevance
    Team was responsible for ranking the top documents in Bing's algorithmic web search results (Top 100K queries)
    Developing new algorithms to extract ranking signals and features from petabytes of user browsing activity logs
    Using data mining and machine learning techniques to optimize user satisfaction metrics
    Windows Live
    Worked with two separate groups (Service Management / Monetization) on delivering project critical components
    Implemented a service for syncing data from a system store to a DHCP server (for the server to hand out correct IP leases required for PXE booting)
    Helped design the next generation monetization solution to better target Hotmail users

    Seattle, WA
  • 2004 - 2009
    Microsoft Corporation - Windows Live Mesh
    Seattle, USA - May 2009 – Aug 2009
    Created an assembly that provisioned a delegated authentication token management service
    Amazon.com Inc - Recommendations and Personalization ( AI )
    Seattle, USA - Aug 2007 - Dec 2007
    Worked on a ranking mechanism to generate a tag set which describe the list recommended items
    Sun Microsystems - Complex Systems Research Group
    California, USA - Jan 2006 - Apr 2006
    Participated in the design and development of a simulation infrastructure for the behavioral analysis of wireless sensor networks
    Amazon.com Inc - Digital Media Technologies
    Seattle, USA - May 2005 - Aug 2005
    Worked on the variety of upgrades to the digital media pipeline (mainly the first internal REST client to the S3 service)
    Epson Canada - Barcode Recognition
    Toronto, Canada - Jan 2004 - Apr 2004
    Developed a universal 2D barcode decoding application for hand-held image-scanners

Skills

Current
LANGUAGES

python
javascript
FRAMEWORKS

flask
react
nextjs
react native
gatsby
TOOLS

PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Celery
Redshift
Past
LANGUAGES

C#
Java
C / C++
Self
objective-c
PHP
Perl
FRAMEWORKS

django
angular
yeoman
expo
code-igniter
mason
cake-php
TOOLS

Looker
Airflow
Athena
Kafka

Activities

GROUPS

Asha for Education
Ekal Vidyalaya
Trekkers / Runners group
Engineering Exploration Volunteer
HOBBIES

Tennis enthusiast

Education