Prayag Minikki Keepally
Bangalore
Summary
Engineering leader with over 16 years of experience in building and scaling enterprise SaaS and self-managed products within cloud-native ecosystems. Proven track record in leading distributed teams, driving product roadmaps, and architecting reliable platforms. Committed to enhancing developer productivity, automating infrastructure, and ensuring operational excellence while building scalable systems. Expertise in collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful product suites that meet evolving market demands.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Development Engineer 3
Phenom
07.2024 - Current
- Building the onboarding product within the Phenom platform as the engineering lead
- Lead onboarding product within the Phenom platform, mentoring engineers and driving roadmap execution
- Partnered with Product, Design, and Customer Success to translate business needs into scalable solutions
- Advocated for internal tooling improvements to boost developer velocity and reduce operational toil
- Contributed to cross-team architecture decisions impacting platform evolution
- Integrated AI tools to enhance productivity and streamline workflows
Technical Solution Architect
PageStitch Technologies Pvt Ltd | Tydy.co
06.2019 - 06.2024
- Technical Solution Architect, acquired by Phenom
- Scaled product infrastructure to support enterprise clients including Genpact, Cipla, and Adani
- Designed secure, highly available cloud platforms on AWS, ensuring 99.9% uptime
- Built automation engines using Kafka and DB streaming to cut manual workflows by 70%
- Mentored engineering teams, implemented CI/CD pipelines, and promoted engineering best practices across projects
- Made key architectural decisions and improved platform scalability and reliability
- Provided cross-functional leadership and contributed to hiring, onboarding, and mentoring engineers
Senior Software Engineer
PageStitch Technologies Pvt Ltd | Tydy.co
06.2016 - 06.2019
- Senior Software Engineer
- Built the solution architecture for managing people relationships using Neo4j graph database
- Optimized database performance through query optimization, resulting in a 100x reduction in query execution time
- Led the configuration and management of production servers on AWS, including VPC, Lambda, Application Load Balancers, RDS, and CodeDeploy
Technical Manager
Hyperlocal Technology Pvt Ltd
10.2012 - 05.2016
- Technical Manager – Product Platform and Apps
- Improved server availability from 33% downtime to near-zero by setting up load balancers and configuring VPC and security measures
- Implemented content delivery using S3 in CloudFront, significantly enhancing web application speed
- Collaborated with Microsoft India to develop a Windows CRM application, providing real-time reservations, offers, and reports for merchants
- Implemented full-text search functionality using Apache Solr
- Designed and implemented RESTful APIs for mobile apps, ensuring high performance and seamless user experience
Software Engineer
Songbird Technologies
07.2010 - 10.2012
- Software Engineer
- Developed web applications using a content management system (Joomla) and implemented a payment gateway
- Designed and developed a web application using Apache Play for music listing and search
Software Engineer
Kites Technologies
06.2009 - 06.2010
- Software Engineer
- Created a web application for sending emails to a large customer base through automated cron jobs
- Developed the Campusbuddy module for a college administration software, sending absent student details to parents via SMS
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information And Computer Systems
Birla Institute of Technology And Science
05-2016
Diploma in Computer Engineering -
Nettur Technical Training Foundation
Thalassery, Kerala05-2009
Skills
- API Gateway
- Troubleshooting skills
- Root-cause analysis
- Innovation mindset
- Product development expertise
- AWS
- AWS Lambda
- CloudFront
- CRM
- Docker
- DynamoDB
- EC2
- Elasticsearch
- GitHub
- GraphQL
- Java
- Java Spring
- Jenkins
- Joomla
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- MongoDB
- Neo4j
- Python
- RDS
- Redis
- REST
- Route 53
- S3
- SpringBoot
- Terraform
- VPC
- Shell Scripting
- Microservices
- Gateway
- Angular
- Infrastructure automation
- Application security
- Microservices architecture
- Cloud computing
- Data modeling
- Performance optimization
- Java-based design
- Web applications
- Problem-solving abilities
- Critical thinking
- Analytical thinking
- Agile methodologies
Timeline
Product Development Engineer 3
Phenom
07.2024 - Current
Technical Solution Architect
PageStitch Technologies Pvt Ltd | Tydy.co
06.2019 - 06.2024
Senior Software Engineer
PageStitch Technologies Pvt Ltd | Tydy.co
06.2016 - 06.2019
Technical Manager
Hyperlocal Technology Pvt Ltd
10.2012 - 05.2016
Software Engineer
Songbird Technologies
07.2010 - 10.2012
Software Engineer
Kites Technologies
06.2009 - 06.2010
Bachelor of Science - Information And Computer Systems
Birla Institute of Technology And Science
Diploma in Computer Engineering -
Nettur Technical Training Foundation
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