# Prashanth Subbiah > Staff Software Engineer | Distributed Systems | Real-Time Platforms Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/prashanthsubbiah Staff Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing, scaling, and owning high-traffic distributed systems across consumer, real-time, and payments platforms. Currently building and operating production systems in the US, handling hundreds of millions of daily requests with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and low latency. Deep backend expertise in Node.js, Django, event-driven architectures, and API platforms, with experience across cloud-native infrastructure, data stores, and observability. Comfortable making system design tradeoffs, driving architecture decisions, and owning services end-to-end - from design and rollout to on-call and incident response. Proven technical leader who mentors engineers, raises engineering standards, and collaborates closely with product and cross-functional partners to deliver business impact. While backend-focused, I’m comfortable working across the stack when needed and value clean, maintainable, production-ready code. Interests include large-scale system design, real-time platforms, and building resilient software that performs reliably at scale. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Multi Media, LLC Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States * Owned and architected a distributed real-time messaging platform with media and in-app purchases, serving 200M+ daily requests with low-latency and high availability requirements. * Designed and scaled backend services and APIs (Django, async workflows) to support high-throughput real-time interactions. * Drove end-to-end system ownership from architecture and capacity planning through production rollout and on-call support. * Made key architectural tradeoffs around scalability, fault tolerance, and backward compatibility, enabling rapid iteration without compromising reliability. * Improved production reliability and performance through observability and bottleneck analysis, strengthening incident response and operational excellence. * Mentored engineers on system design, code quality, and production readiness, raising overall engineering standards. ### Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 • Led and mentored a team of 8+ full-time engineers • Analysed user-specific needs and developed user experience & interface • Engineered RESTful and GraphQL APIs for 200+ internal components with a focus on caching, persistence, and SSO. • Developed reusable UI components – Grid with pagination, multi-select with events. ### Senior Consultant @ Capgemini Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 * Led Center of Excellence team comprising 12+ developers * Developed RESTful APIs for various applications based on business requirements (External webservice interaction, authentication and CRUD operations with MongoDB). * Implemented schedulers, socket handling, clustering across projects. * Assisted developers in Node.js and Angular 2.0 core architecture and logics across products * Developed reusable UI components – Grid with pagination, treeview, drag and drop, events handling. Wire up API endpoints with Angular UI and work with UI level components (Full stack role). * Unit tested the code leveraging task runner capabilities. * Handled, suggested, and streamlined the coding standards and methodologies across layers through effective code reviews. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Pearson English Business Solutions Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 ### Programmer Analyst @ Cognizant Technology Solutions Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 Current Project Details: Technologies Involved: Node.js, MongoDB core technologies involving various npm modules with Eclipse IDE and code base under control of SVN. Using additional editors/tools like sublime text, webstorm, postman and mongoVUE. Responsibilities: • Develop RESTful APIs for various modules based on finance related business requirements. • Mapping developed enterprise development services to the Cognizant owned cloud secure platform exposing production web service links. • Work with UI Team in integrating web services to the Angular.js web interface. • Mentor team members in various levels of challenges they face to meet the module/project deadline. • Handle, suggest, and streamline coding standards and methodologies across layers through effective Previous Project Details: Technologies Involved: POP (Point object Programming) based on C++ Language OOPS Concepts, Oracle – PL SQL, Batch Programming/Scripting, Formscape, and Tortoise SVN. Responsibilities: • Involved in estimation, analysis, design and development of critical modules in the CRM application (Oracle & Formscape) on client server. • Leading the Offshore team and guiding the new resources in the team. • Managing resources for the upgrade project. • Have interacted directly with clients regarding project clarifications and progress status. • As a team member, I was involved in effectively managing the generation of client statements during peak statement runs which normally involve huge volume of requests from clients. ### Junior Test Engineer @ Thinksoft Global Services Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 GE Corporate treasury analyses, monitors, and strategizes to mitigate business foreign investment risks within GE. This project will identify accounting exposure either from re-measurement through earnings or revaluation through CTA and it needs to identify and display foreign net investment balances that are subject to revaluation and quantify the potential impact which can be hedged. FCS-QA project involves both data warehousing and report validations. Responsibilities: • Understanding of Business requirement document and Functional requirement document. • Designed the Test Plan, Test Cases and Test Scripts based on the Test Requirements. The test cases were written for the GUI, functional, usability testing. • Executed test cases and reported defect to development team • Retested resolved issues on each released builds. • Performed Regression testing was under taken after every bug fix. • Submitted Weekly Status Reports to the Test Lead. • Worked with the development team for Defect closure. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Software Engineering San José State University ### B.E in Computer Science and Engineering Anna University, Chennai ### Vanavani Matriculation Higher Secondary School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/prashanthsubbiah --- Source: https://flows.cv/prashanthsubbiah JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/prashanthsubbiah/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01