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Prakash Ramalingam

@prakashramalingam

I lead backend platforms and distributed systems for consumer-scale social products.

Singapore
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At BandLab Technologies, I lead backend engineering for Social, supporting feeds, fan and artist experiences, communities, and chat for a platform with 150M+ registered users and roughly 4M weekly active users.

I've led the decomposition of a legacy monolith into 15+ independent AWS serverless services, migrated critical endpoints to more stable infrastructure, and built event-driven data pipelines powering personalised, ML- and search-driven feeds. This work increased daily users reaching the third feed post around 16x.

I rebuild engineering effectiveness through practical platform improvements: moving CI/CD from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions, creating reusable telemetry and deployment utilities, strengthening alerting ownership, and introducing AI-first development workflows that reduced typical feature lead time from 4–6 weeks to 1–2 weeks.

I've grown engineers into senior and tech-lead roles, hired and managed high-performing teams, and rebuilt delivery trust through better estimation, prioritisation, and dependency management. Earlier, I built regulated digital-insurance services on Azure and delivered backend systems for public-sector library platforms and shipping products.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

BandLab Technologies logoBT

Senior Software Engineer → Tech Lead, Feeds

BandLab Technologies

Jan 2021 - Dec 2024 (3 years 11 months)

Joined as an IC on the Feeds team and was promoted to Tech Lead within the first year, leading a 3-engineer squad owning the core activity feed. Designed and shipped event-ingestion architecture on AWS.

Civica logoCI

Software Developer

Jan 2017 - Oct 2019 (2 years 9 months)

Delivered the Spydus library-management product for the National Library Board, Singapore, leading the revamp of the Online Public Access Catalogue. Cut report-generation runtime by 60% through microservice-based analytics.

Aspire Systems logoAS

Senior Software Engineer

Aspire Systems

Sep 2012 - Dec 2016 (4 years 3 months)

Lead developer across multiple US and Belgium client projects, building core backend logic for a US-based shipping product handling complex XML import/export. Recognised as Star Performer two consecutive years.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Kalasalingam University logoKU

Kalasalingam University

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

Grade: First Class

Completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science with First Class honors.

Microsoft logoMI

Microsoft

Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate, Azure Development

Earned the Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate certification.

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