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Prabhudas Avanigadda

I build the backend systems products run on, and I've built three of those products myself.

Previously backend at Rippling and Gameskraft. Every feature I build starts from the business problem behind it, then I work from first principles. With my co-founders now running day-to-day operations, I'm returning to full-time engineering.

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Portrait of Prabhudas Avanigadda
Now
FounderMoveTara · Proto.Engineer · Tatvata
Previous
RipplingBackend engineer
Before that
GameskraftSoftware engineer
Education
NIT SilcharB.Tech CSE · 9.14 CGPA
880×
faster search
3.3 ms
p95 at 412 req/s
+10.5%
valid flight offers
90%
faster releases

How I decide

Business first.Start from truth.Decide once.Solve essential complexity.Remove accidental complexity.

Career record

From engineering teams to building my own products

Drawn the way a backend engineer reads a request: as a trace. Blue spans are jobs. Brass spans are my own products, which I founded and build myself. They are not separate employers.

Fig. 1Education, employment and my own products by start date. Open-ended spans are ongoing.

Experience

What I shipped, and what changed because of it

Every line reads: what changed, by how much, and how I did it.

Rippling

Software Engineer, Backend

Jan 2026 – Mar 2026 · Bengaluru

Left for a family health emergency to care for my mother at home.

Multi-provider flight search

Implemented filtering of unbookable offers in multi-provider search, with metrics and unit tests, and worked on the request fan-out and response aggregation across providers.

One search fans out to every provider in parallel. Offers that can't be booked are dropped before results return.

Offer deduplication

Changed the dedup core hash to group on fare basis. Distinct valid offers went from 353 to 390 (+10.5%), and corporate and public fares now stay separate.

Corporate fares used to collapse into public ones. Grouping on fare basis splits them back out.

Runtime configuration

Moved business rules and search strategies into JSON runtime config with fallback defaults, so a rule change no longer needs a deploy.

A rule change used to go through a full release. Now it's a config edit, with safe defaults if the config is missing.

Gameskraft

Software Engineer

Jul 2024 – Nov 2025 · Bengaluru

Transaction reconciliation

Designed a Java 17 Spring Boot service that reconciles internal records against payment gateways, with retries and timeouts, validation, OpenAPI docs and Jacoco/SonarQube quality gates.

Each internal record is matched to the gateway's record. Anything that doesn't match is flagged for review.

AWS Lambda CI/CD

Built pipelines for Lambda functions and layers with Docker, ECR and OIDC-based access: zero-downtime deploys, automatic versioning and rollback. Release cycles became 90% faster.

Release cycle length before and after the pipeline, and the stages every release now passes through.

Governed script execution

Built a Jenkins pipeline that runs scripts across 40+ AWS accounts, gated by Jira approval tickets, with validated inputs, least-privilege credentials and audit logs in S3.

Nothing runs until the change ticket is approved. Then the script reaches every account, and each run is logged.

Distributed logging

Built a logging pipeline on Fluent Bit, Kafka (Strimzi, KRaft), Fluentd, OpenSearch and S3, routed by team, service and level, isolated per team, and archived with zstd and Object Lock.

Events are tagged by team, routed to that team's Kafka partition, then indexed for search and archived.

Rakuten

Technical Intern

Feb 2024 – Jun 2024 · Bengaluru

Data integrity monitoring

Built a monitoring dashboard across 100+ datasets on GCP BigQuery and Looker, with automated anomaly detection, schema validation and version-controlled ETL.

Every dataset is checked on each run, and anomalies are flagged automatically.

Ventures

My own products, founded and built end to end

Building a feature is the easy part. How it is built is what lasts.

Own product · live and growing in Hyderabad

MoveTara

Operations and bed booking for hostels and PGs. Go backend, 36 bounded contexts.

Business problemTenants can't reserve a PG bed before they arrive.

  • 880× faster search275 s → 313 ms, by computing visibility once instead of per row.
  • p95 3.3 ms at 412 req/sk6 load test on 8 cores, 0% errors.
  • No double-booking on retryAvailability is derived on every read. Every write is idempotent.

Go · PostgreSQL · k6 · React Native

movetara.com
Free beds are computed on read, never stored. A retried request returns the first result.

Own product · free with an account

Proto.Engineer

A first-principles platform for learning software engineering. 330 lessons, 11 courses.

Business problemEngineers learn the names of concepts, not why systems are built that way.

  • Paid content can't leakA private Go API decides access. The browser never reaches it.
  • 2.7 ms lesson pagesOne round trip to a composed endpoint, cached in memory.
  • Atomic publishingObjects are immutable. The version pointer is written last.

Next.js · Go · Cloud Run · Cloud Storage

proto-engineer.com
Content is reachable only through the server and the private API.

Own product · live and growing

Tatvata

Verified creator identity for brand partnerships, scored across 15 niches.

Business problemBrands pick creators by follower count, which says little about real impact.

  • Explainable scoresFacts are never edited. Scores come from versioned parameters.
  • One less system to runA Postgres task queue replaced Celery and Redis.
  • Private by topologyThe API is reachable only from the web tier, behind Cloudflare.

Python · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · AWS

tatvata.com
Collected facts stay fixed. Scores are versioned and can be recomputed. Values are illustrative.

How I build

One simple process, on every product

Business problem first. Then measure, decide in writing, and prove it before it ships.

  1. 01

    Start from the business problem

    Name what it costs the business, then reproduce and measure what breaks. That's how a 275 s search became 313 ms.

  2. 02

    Decide in writing

    One short decision record per choice: the problem, the options, why this one. 200+ across my products.

  3. 03

    Build one slice

    Contract first, then one end-to-end slice with strict boundaries, never a half-built layer.

  4. 04

    Prove it

    Tests and load before release: concurrency, database policies, the browser, and throughput.

  5. 05

    Ship through gates

    Typecheck, lint, test and build must pass in CI. Every fix is logged with its root cause.

Toolkit

Languages
Go · Java · Python · TypeScript · SQL · C++
Backend & data
Spring Boot · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Kafka · BigQuery · REST · OpenAPI
Cloud & infrastructure
AWS (Lambda, ECR, S3, EKS) · GCP Cloud Run · Kubernetes · Helm · Docker · Jenkins · Cloudflare
Debugging & observability
pprof · OpenTelemetry · Prometheus · Grafana · pg_stat_statements · EXPLAIN · Graylog · OpenSearch
Testing & quality
k6 · Playwright · Vitest · pytest · pgTAP · testcontainers · golangci-lint · gitleaks · Jacoco · SonarQube

Problem solving

1,400+ problems solved in competitive programming

Contest ratings on a shared scale, and problems solved per platform.

Contact

Hiring software developers? Let's talk.

I own services end to end, from the design doc to the on-call page, and leave them simpler than I found them.

Looking for
Software Developer roles
Strongest in
Java · Spring Boot, Go, Python, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes
Best fit
Teams where engineers own services from design to on-call
Availability
Available now. My co-founders run day-to-day operations of my products.
Based in
Bengaluru, India
Emailprabhudasavanigadda11@gmail.com
Phone+91 98662 66726

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