Prashanth is available for hire

Prashanth Adepu

Verified Expert in Engineering

Ruby Developer

Location

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Toptal Member Since

October 29, 2021

Prashanth is a proactive software engineer with strong computer science fundamentals and 7+ years of experience. Specializing in Ruby, he has developed, scaled, and maintained apps that serve millions of users and fuel additional revenue. These include apps for HR staffing, healthcare services, solar energy, and eCommerce for home-based services. Prashanth enjoys working on design and engineering solutions for new and established companies with varied business models.

Algorithms Ruby Ruby on Rails (RoR)Heroku IT Project Management Code Review PostgreSQL CSS JavaScriptCore Database Design RSpec React Test-driven Development (TDD)Unit Testing Rails Engines

Portfolio

Zipline.io

Ruby, Ruby on Rails (RoR), JavaScript, Hotwire, Stimulus, RSpec, Tailwind CSS...

Pinnacle Software Solutions Pvt Ltd

Ruby, React, Heroku, Amazon Web Services (AWS), PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails (RoR)...

Digbihealth

Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby, Java, Heroku, Cloud66, PostgreSQL...

Experience

APIs - 6 years Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 6 years Ruby - 6 years RSpec - 5 years Heroku - 5 years JavaScript - 5 years React - 4 years Java - 4 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Linux, MacOS

The most amazing...

...recent project I've done was engineering a solar energy CMS from the ground up—the codebase was later used for four other clients in the same domain.

Work Experience

Contract Developer

2022 - PRESENT

Zipline.io

Developed features that help perform visitor inductions.
Created new UI components for reuse in the codebase.
Tracked and fixed issues using shortcut's dashboard.

Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails (RoR), JavaScript, Hotwire, Stimulus, RSpec, Tailwind CSS, Sass

Technology Co-founder

2020 - 2022

Pinnacle Software Solutions Pvt Ltd

Developed an app from the ground up that helps clients manage their customers' onboarding, bill payments, history tracking, and all customers through an admin portal.
Owned the app from an MVP to a scalable system for one client and added four other clients.
Built the scraping logic for tracking customer history and developed encrypted systems for storing secure data, such as payments.
Developed payment processing for credit cards and ACH and increased fault tolerance by using distributed locks.
Added and managed clients, including requirements, specifications, and POCs, to complete product development.
Built scalable systems using distributed locks, distributed cache, serverless functions, and libraries.

Technologies: Ruby, React, Heroku, Amazon Web Services (AWS), PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails (RoR), JavaScript, Stripe API, Authorize.net, Redis, Redis Cache, AWS Lambda, Ruby Gems, Distributed Caches, Web Scraping, API Integration, Data Encryption, Digital Payments, APIs, HTML, CSS, JavaScriptCore, Distributed Locks, Rails Engines, Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Database Design, Architecture, Requirements & Specifications, IT Project Management, Billing, Full-stack, Leadership, Memcached, Code Review, Source Code Review, Technical Hiring, Interviewing, Task Analysis, Test-driven Development (TDD), Technical Leadership, Payment APIs, Material UI, Bootstrap

Technology Lead

2018 - 2020

Digbihealth

Integrated third-party insurers, which drove a 300% increase in the number of users.
Integrated Shopify for placing health package orders and tracking these orders on our app, increasing the efficiency to the maximum.
Owned and maintained the app with continuous feature additions, bug fixing, and delegation of work.
Developed user reports and user management from the admin portal and integrated payment systems for users and partners.
Served as the single point of contact for communicating with third-party integration teams to complete integrations.
Gathered requirements from business owners, then defined and developed the technical specifications, managing the app.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby, Java, Heroku, Cloud66, PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS), React, JavaScript, Stripe API, Fitbit API, API Integration, APIs, HTML, CSS, JavaScriptCore, Ruby Gems, Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Database Design, Shopify, Architecture, Requirements & Specifications, Technical Requirements, Proof of Concept (POC), Healthcare IT, Healthcare Services, Full-stack, Leadership, Integration, Twilio, SendGrid, Code Review, Source Code Review, Technical Hiring, Interviewing, Task Analysis, Technical Leadership, Payment APIs, Material UI, Bootstrap

Technology Lead | Founding Technology Member

2017 - 2018

Besthires.ai

Developed a data-driven, intelligent system that helps companies find their best-fit employees based on their online data.
Created dynamic reports to present users' personalities, characteristics, and Fortune 500 company fits.
Developed features to capture users' digital footprints; integrated Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social apps; and developed a chatbot to capture users' inputs for personality mapping.
Built an analysis tool to define successful hires based on historical data.
Integrated Shopify for ordering candidate insight reports.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby, React, JavaScript, Heroku, Amazon Web Services (AWS), IBM Watson, Facebook API, Twitter API, Web Scraping, Chatbots, LinkedIn API, API Integration, APIs, Data Science, HTML, JavaScriptCore, CSS, D3.js, Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Database Design, Shopify, Architecture, Requirements & Specifications, Full-stack, Leadership, Twilio, SendGrid, Code Review, Source Code Review, Technical Hiring, Interviewing, Task Analysis, Technical Leadership, Material UI, Bootstrap

Full-stack Developer

2016 - 2017

Report Garden Inc

Added functionality to link data from multiple marketing tools into single Excel reports.
Integrated marketing tools for client data and trained new joiners.
Developed reports for the consolidation of clients' market data.
Updated the existing Rails stack to its newer version and fixed bugs throughout the flow.
Managed new employees and got them up to speed on the project.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby, React, Heroku, Amazon Web Services (AWS), API Integration, Docker, CircleCI, APIs, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, D3.js, Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Database Design, Code Review, Source Code Review, Task Analysis, Test-driven Development (TDD), Bootstrap, SaaS

Senior Software Engineer

2015 - 2016

Housejoy (Acquired MyWash)

Served as a founding team member at MyWash and later on a ten-member team among 50+ members who were acqui-hired into Housejoy from MyWash.
Developed features such as user authentication, role-based access, order review with support for coupons, a partner portal, integration of payment tools, and marketing analysis tools.
Integrated the MyWash system with Housejoy for managing laundry and third-party delivery partners for smooth order management flows.

Technologies: Python, PostgreSQL, Java, JavaScript, MySQL, Flask, MongoDB, CanJS, Applets, API Integration, APIs, HTML, CSS, Algorithms, Data Structures, Database Design, System Design, Source Code Review, Code Review, Technical Hiring, Interviewing, Task Analysis, Bootstrap, Jakarta Server Pages (JSP)

Intern Software Developer

2015 - 2015

Techvedika Solutions Pvt Ltd

Built a system flow where we captured a large amount of log data and filtered these data to make it presentable.
Created a visual system using Kibana based on filtered data that passed through Logstash and Elasticsearch.
Developed back-end services for a B2B growth product.

Technologies: Java, ELK (Elastic Stack), Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Algorithms, Data Structures, System Design, Database Design, Jakarta Server Pages (JSP)

Project Trainee

2012 - 2013

Sum Global Technologies Pvt Ltd

Built a CMS tool for tracking farming products as part of a two-member team.
Developed logic to create a stock-keeping unit (SKU) for farming products.
Created screens to track the farming product details by type of seeds, season, and other details.

Technologies: Java, Servlet, Apache Tomcat, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Jakarta Server Pages (JSP)

Experience

CMS for Solar Energy Management

A Ruby on Rails and React-based app to onboard customers and manage them through a secure admin portal. I designed and developed this scalable system with high-level features that include predicting users' usability, locks for payments, caching for performance-driven distributed systems, an encrypted online payment system, serverless functions based on use cases, and libraries to support similar systems.

Data-driven Digital App for Healthcare

A Ruby on Rails and React-based healthcare system based on digital therapeutics. Users' gut microbiome and DNA are collected and used to help define their care programs.

Key Features
• Captures users' historical data and helps them track their history.
• Generates reports based on microbiome and DNA samples.
• Suggests food based on users' data.
• Allows healthcare professionals to track and connect with their clients.
• Allows third-party integrations with US-based insurers.

Data-driven HR Staffing App

A Ruby on Rails and React-based web app to reduce mishires with the power of data science. I developed this data-driven, intelligent system that helps companies find their best-fit employees based on their data. Features include access to social networks, the ability to chat with the intelligent system, and reports to map best-fit employees to companies.

Skills

Languages

Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Java, Python, SQL, C, C++, Sass

Frameworks

Ruby on Rails (RoR), JavaScriptCore, Flask, CanJS, Stimulus, Bootstrap, Material UI, Tailwind CSS, Jakarta Server Pages (JSP)

Platforms

Heroku, Shopify, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Docker, MacOS, Twilio

Other

APIs, API Integration, Algorithms, Data Structures, Proof of Concept (POC), Scraping, System Design, Architecture, Requirements & Specifications, IT Project Management, Technical Requirements, Code Review, Source Code Review, Technical Hiring, Interviewing, Task Analysis, Ruby Gems, Distributed Caches, Web Scraping, Data Encryption, Digital Payments, Applets, Chatbots, Machine Learning, Distributed Locks, Billing, Healthcare IT, Healthcare Services, Full-stack, Leadership, Integration, Hotwire, Technical Leadership, Payment APIs, SaaS

Libraries/APIs

React, Rails Engines, Stripe API, Fitbit API, Authorize.net, Facebook API, Twitter API, LinkedIn API, Java Servlets, D3.js, Square API

Tools

RSpec, Cloud66, IBM Watson, CircleCI, Servlet, Apache Tomcat, ELK (Elastic Stack), Logstash, Kibana, SendGrid

Paradigms

Database Design, Test-driven Development (TDD), Unit Testing, Data Science

Storage

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Redis Cache, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Memcached

Education

2013 - 2015

Master's Degree in Information Technology

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) - Hyderabad, India

2008 - 2012

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University - Hyderabad, India

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