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Prakash Nath Jha

Software engineer. Observability, distributed systems, cloud infra.

Based in Bangalore, India.

About

I'm a senior software engineer at Abnormal AI, working on observability — building reliable monitoring pipelines, distributed tracing, and metrics infrastructure across cloud environments including FedRAMP.

Before Abnormal I spent three and a half years at SAP Labs building managed datastore services (PostgreSQL, Redis) on SAP BTP using Open Service Broker, Kubernetes, and Cloud Foundry. I hold an M.Tech in CS from IIIT Hyderabad and a B.Tech in CS from IEM Kolkata.

Skills

Languages
Python · Go · Node.js · TypeScript · C++
Datastores
PostgreSQL · Redis · Kafka
Infrastructure
Kubernetes · Helm · Terraform · Docker
Clouds
AWS · Azure · GCP · AliCloud
Observability
Prometheus · OpenTelemetry · Chronosphere · Datadog · Sentry · Grafana
Data
Airflow · dbt

Experience

  1. Senior Software Engineer

    Abnormal AI

    Apr 2026 — Present

  2. Software Developer II

    Abnormal AI

    Apr 2024 — Apr 2026
    • Integrated Datadog distributed tracing in a FedRAMP environment, enabling deep visibility into request flows and reducing MTTR for production issues.
    • Streamlined metrics streaming from AWS CloudWatch to Chronosphere, improving observability for infrastructure resources.
    • Deployed Prometheus ServiceMonitor-based metric scraping, improving reliability of monitoring for Kubernetes workloads.
    • Implemented a Prometheus metrics replication setup using remote_write with mTLS via Envoy, ensuring reliable cross-cluster metrics synchronization.
    • Created a Wiremock setup for mocking Microsoft APIs, enabling reliable integration testing in isolated test environments.

  3. Developer

    SAP Labs

    Oct 2020 — Apr 2024
    • Built Open Service Broker-based applications to manage the full lifecycle of PostgreSQL and Redis on SAP BTP.
    • Contributed to test-driven development in Node.js, TypeScript/JavaScript, and Go — deploying across Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry with Helm and Terraform.
    • Implemented observability pipelines with OpenTelemetry Collector, exporting to Dynatrace, Grafana, and Amazon Managed Prometheus.

  4. Software Developer

    PandoCorp LLC

    Jul 2020 — Sep 2020
    • Developed a Node.js/JavaScript web application with PostgreSQL (persistence) and Redis (cache + queue) on AWS.
    • Designed and implemented a notification system using the factory design pattern, enabling flexible delivery via Email and SMS.

Projects

  1. IoT Applications Platform

    Python · Kafka · Docker · PostgreSQL
    • REST API-based platform for deploying applications that consume real-time data from IoT sensors.
    • Microservices for scheduler, load-balancer, and notification manager — Kafka as message broker, PostgreSQL for metadata.

  2. Mini Torrent File Sharing System

    C++ · TCP · Multithreading
    • Multi-threaded peer-to-peer file sharing system based on the BitTorrent protocol, using TCP between peers and server.
    • Centralized Tracker server to store metadata of each file present in the network.

Education

  1. IIIT Hyderabad

    M.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering

    2018 — 2020

    CGPA 8.21

  2. Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata

    B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering

    2014 — 2018

    CGPA 8.79

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