Software Engineer | Mentor | Blogger

Hello there! My name is Baidyanath Prasad, and I'm an Engineering Manager based in India. I love solving problems using technologies that eventually make others' lives easy. A total of 9+ years of experience in the IT industry - I have worked on several products using various tech stacks successfully delivered to the market. Every new day comes with new challenges and ends with something new learning this is what makes more interesting about this industry.

In my early life, I came to a lower-middle-class family natively from Madhubani, Bihar (India). My primary education till the seventh standard was in the village. In 2009, I completed my matriculation from Rama Prasad Dutt Janta High School, Jitwarpur (Bihar School Examination Board, Patna). I was good at Mathematics so I decided to go in the same stream and moved to Patna, Bihar where I studied Science (Mathematics, Physics & Chemistry). In 2011, after the intermediate from Thakur Prasad Singh College, Patna (Bihar School Examination Board, Patna), I joined Bansal Classes, Kota (Rajasthan) where I focused on AIEEE & JEE (now JEE main & advance). 

Next year i.e. in 2012, was admitted to B.Tech in Information Technology at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (2012 - 2016). I've been an average student in college and started preparing for placements at the last moment i.e. 3rd year itself. In my final year, I got the opportunity for a full-time internship of 6 months at a Bangaluru-based startup - this is how I entered in IT industry.

On Jan 17, 2016, I moved to Bengaluru and worked as a Software Engineer - Intern at Portea where I worked on PHP on Laravel and completed my first project called "Kya Baat Hai - A Portea IVR initiative". This project was for the company’s internal non-technical employees to arrange a quick quiz on the mobile. This project was a huge success as within a span of just a few months more than 15000+ quizzes were completed successfully. By the way, this project is still running. I'm grateful to Mr. Ratheesh P who helped me in completing this project and gave initial fuel to my career. Apart from this project, I also got exposure to many other technologies/libraries like - Ruby On Rails, Python, Elastic Search, etc.

In July 2016, I joined as a full-time Software Engineer at Nifty Window. Where I've started working on Java- Google App Engine and added many features and initiatives. Here, we used to build dynamic microsites for different clients and handle a total of more than 1000+ websites (microsites). By that time, I was pretty experienced with technologies, day-to-day work, handling pressure, and all of which are related to this industry.

I joined HomeLane in early Jan 2018. Here, I've built Asset Platform - a platform for creating and visualizing assets in 3D. Here, I've been worked on multiple projects- Hl-Catalogue, SpaceCraft, etc. This place has been one of the best places for my career. I have expertise in various tech stacks - Java/Kotlin, RxJava/Project Reactor, Python, Dropwizard, SpringBoot, and many more. Also, I got to learn, about designing/architecting cloud-based applications, Specs writing/reviewing, unit testing, deployments, etc - which boosted my confidence to take responsibility for building products end to end. I was promoted from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer in April 2019. Lead multiple tracks while launching D2M (Design to manufacturing) and was responsible for onboarding complete woodwork. In Aug 2021, I decided to move on for better career growth. 

In September 2021, I joined Glance (an InMobi Group Company) as a Senior Software Engineer, later after 9 months promoted to Tech Lead (SDE-3) and further promoted to the Engineering Manager role where I'm leading the GlanceTV backend team. Interestingly, I was the first member of this pod and part of the very first release as well. Here I have been part of end-to-end backend development, team building, and collaboration. Lots of challenges and opportunities are here to solve at scale. Anyone keen to learn and solve new challenges daily, feel free to send your resume to baidyanath.p@inmobi.com, we would be happy to chat with you. 

Now, it's like a habit to explore technologies and solve problems. At this point, I would also like to share my knowledge with others, hoping that my post might be helpful/beneficial for them. In the coming days, I'll be sharing multiple stories/articles/codes related to tech/non-tech.

In my personal life - I'm a son, brother, husband, and father of two girls. In my free time - I like cooking my favorite dishes,  listening to music, watching movies, playing cricket, and last but not least trekking.

That's a brief about me. See you in the next post... :)