Divya Prakash

Backend and Platform Engineer with 6+ years of experience building scalable, secure, and data-intensive systems. Strong expertise in Python and Go, distributed systems, data pipelines, cloud-native architectures, and AI with RAG powered applications.

Software Development Engineer - Appknox - Xysec Labs Private Limited - Bangalore, India

(2025-02)

• Leveraged AI coding agent like Cursor, Claude to accelerate delivery of multiple features and new projects, achieving a ∼4x increase in engineering productivity.
• Collaborated with DevOps team and migrated the database architecture to a distributed PostgreSQL setup, enabling the platform to support 3x higher traffic.
• Designed and implemented an AI-driven PII detection engine using Microsoft Presidio, strengthening application data privacy and compliance.
• Optimised 4,300+ automated test cases, improving execution performance by 60% and reducing CI pipeline costs by 50% and which also helped to accelerating release cycles.
• Recognition: Recognized with the Engineering Excellence Award(2025) and Engineering Spirit Award(2026) for exceptional engineering performance and contributions.

Senior Software Engineer - Barycenter Technologies Private Limited - Kanpur, India

(2024-05 - 2025-01)

• Conducted code reviews and architectural assessments to improve security posture, code quality, and system maintainability, ensuring compliance with GDPR, PCI-DSS, and DPDP regulations.
• Led and mentored a team of 7 engineers, driving technical direction, architectural decisions, and delivery across multiple projects.
• Developed a centralised monitoring platform correlating logs, metrics, and telemetry, reducing incident investigation time from hours to minutes.

Software Development Engineer - Innovaccer Analytics Private Limited - Noida, India

(2021-12 - 2022-09)

• Developed Kibana-based observability dashboards to monitor backend services, reducing debugging time by 30% and enabling proactive performance tuning.
• Collaborated with product and design teams to deliver new features based on user behaviour analytics.
• Recognition: Received the Best Engineer Award for re-engineering a platform to handle 10x traffic ahead of schedule.

Associate Software Developer - Thoughts2Binary Consulting LLP - Gurugram, India

(2019-11 - 2021-12)

• Implemented automated CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket Pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.
• Delivered four microservice-based systems from inception to production, following agile practices and secure development standards.
• Recognition: Awarded Budding Star (July 2020) for product quality and delivery excellence.

M.Sc. - Analytics and Machine Learning - University of Southampton (2022-09 - 2023-09)

Bachelor - Finance - Banaras Hindu University (2015-07 - 2018-07)