Prabhakaran M
Chennai | https://www.linkedin.com/in/prabha-karan-733b8053
Summary
Seasoned and forward-thinking Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and scaling backend systems. Proven expertise in cloud-native systems, observability, concurrency design, and AI/LLM integrations. Adept at leading engineering initiatives, mentoring developers, and delivering infrastructure solutions across logistics, e-commerce, and supply chain domains.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer II
Fourkites India Pvt. Ltd
Chennai
04.2018 - Current
- Led efforts to adopt OpenTelemetry (OTel) in place of vendor-specific observability, resulting in better visibility into business metrics, and more actionable alerting systems.
- Designed and implemented Change Data Capture (CDC) strategies in legacy modules to support downstream event-driven workflows and system integrations
- Built Redis concurrency controls with keyed executors, improving throughput by 40%.
- Architected an LTL load inconsistency framework, increasing tracking reliability.
- Developed a worker orchestration system for distributed task management.
- Automated Redis key cleanup, reducing cache bloat, and enabling zero downtime.
- Built milestone notification pipelines, and optimized user engagement.
- Leading the development of an LLM-integrated Root Cause Analysis system.
SDE 2
Voonik Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
05.2015 - 04.2018
- Led end-to-end launch of MrVoonik, a men's e-commerce platform
- Designed Elasticsearch-based product discovery engine
- Built internal analytics SDK for Android; developed mobile APIs with custom logging
- Implemented resilient API clients with retry/backoff and payload debugging
Education
B.E. - Computer Science
Mepco Schlenk Engineering College
Sivakasi04-2015
Skills
- Languages: Ruby, Java, Python
- Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Spring Boot, FastAPI
- Cloud & Infra: AWS (S3, EC2, Lambda), Docker, Kubernetes
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Cassandra
- Messaging: Kafka, SQS, Resque
- Observability: NewRelic, Signoz, Grafana, Chronosphere
- Tools: Git, GitHub Actions, JIRA, Confluence
- Architecture: Microservices, Event-Driven Systems, REST APIs, HLD/LLD
Affiliations
- Implemented an MCP server to triage incoming queries based on business metrics
- Built FastAPI-based LLM workflows with structured output and retries
- Architecting a LangChain-based RCA system using SOPs, Redis, and Signoz
- Integrating vector stores (FAISS/PGVector) for SOP-aware query resolution
- Exploring agentic frameworks (AutoGen, LangGraph) with AWS S3 context
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer II
Fourkites India Pvt. Ltd
04.2018 - Current
SDE 2
Voonik Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
05.2015 - 04.2018
B.E. - Computer Science
Mepco Schlenk Engineering College
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