The career, in three formats. The timeline below covers full-time. The wall and cards beneath are the consulting work. The recommendations at the bottom are what the people I worked with said afterwards.
Leading platform-wide architecture for a wealth-management platform serving $5T+ AUA. Building the modernization roadmap and the team that owns it.
Omnichannel architecture across 1,200+ stores. Built the patterns that became the de-facto reference for the retailer’s tech org.
Cards, payments, and core-banking modernization. The work that taught me about idempotency, the long shadow of mainframe contracts, and the politics of cutover.
Built and maintained an internal platform serving Fortune 500 customers. The job that turned me into someone who thinks in interfaces.
Trade capture, post-trade processing, and the kind of distributed-systems work that you cannot get wrong twice. Idempotency, dual-write, end-of-day reconciliation.
The Y2K-adjacent generation of work. Java, C++, and the long apprenticeship that produced everyone who shipped systems in the 2010s.
Mostly fractional. Mostly in the messy middle between strategy and execution. Many of these client names are public; some are not. Filter by industry below — I will be specific in private conversations.
Led platform-wide architecture for a wealth-management platform serving $5T+ AUA. Owned the multi-year modernization of advisor-facing tooling.
Reduced advisor onboarding from 14 days to 36 hours across the affiliate network.
Designed the omnichannel architecture connecting in-store POS, e-commerce, and warehouse systems across 1,200+ locations.
Order-to-ship time dropped 38%. Cross-channel inventory accuracy crossed 99.2%.
Architected the read-only-first migration pattern that allowed the bank to offload 60% of core banking reads from mainframe to cloud without a single mainframe write contract change.
Mainframe MIPS bill reduced by $14M/yr. Zero customer-visible incidents over the migration window.
Re-architected claims intake and triage across five European markets. Replaced a vendor BPM with a domain-driven service mesh.
Claim cycle time reduced 41% in P&C lines. Operating cost per claim down 27%.
Designed the de-identification, ingest, and analytics platform for real-world evidence across 7 country data sources.
Trial-readiness signal time reduced from 11 weeks to 9 days.
Took an aging Rails monolith with 8M lines and rebuilt it as three domain services. The split was deliberately small and politically negotiated.
Deploy frequency went from monthly to daily. P95 page-load dropped 62%.
Architected the irregular-operations recovery platform that handles weather and mechanical disruptions across hubs.
Recovery decision time during major IROPS events reduced from 3.5h to 47m.
Designed the shipment-level control tower that ingests EDI, AIS, and IoT feeds for end-to-end visibility across ocean and ground.
Customer ETA accuracy crossed 92% from a 71% baseline.
Replaced a custom CMS with a headless platform feeding mobile and web surfaces. Designed the editorial workflow to be human-first.
Editorial publish-time reduced 4x. Mobile-web LCP under 1.6s on cellular.
Untangled the ordering platform for an MSO carrier across consumer and SMB lines. The work was 80% domain modeling, 20% code.
Order fallout reduced from 17% to 3.2%. First-call provisioning crossed 80%.
Designed the supplier-onboarding pipeline that pulled 220k SKUs from heterogeneous suppliers into a unified catalog.
Time-to-list went from weeks to under 24h for 78% of supplier catalogs.
Quarterly architecture reviews across 12 portfolio companies. The job was to tell the truth in language the investors could hear.
Two companies pivoted off doomed re-platforms. One reached profitable exit.
Modernization of a benefits-eligibility platform across 14 state programs. The political work outweighed the technical work.
Eligibility determination time dropped from 21 days to under 72h across qualifying programs.
Internal platform team for an ISV serving Fortune-500 customers. The architecture had to be carrier-grade and customer-friendly.
Platform reuse across product lines crossed 70%. New product time-to-market halved.
Trade capture and downstream feeds across equities, fixed income, and derivatives. The system that taught me about idempotency.
STP rate crossed 96% in equities. Trade-break investigation time reduced 4x.
A representative six. The remainder live on LinkedIn — full unredacted text and the names of the people who wrote them are here.
“Prakash is the architect you call when the system has to be honest about what it is. He cut through three years of vendor lock-in arguments in a single Wednesday morning.”
“He arrived as a fractional EA and ended up rewriting our roadmap. Two years later we still reach for the framework he left behind.”
“Prakash treats the existing system with respect. He doesn’t arrive wanting to throw it away — he arrives wanting to understand why it survived. That made the migration possible.”
“Calm in a war room. The kind of architect who makes a 3am incident feel like a Tuesday afternoon. We owe him at least one quarter of our SRE maturity.”
“He left us with a target operating model we still use, three years later. Most consultants leave PowerPoint. Prakash left a working artifact.”
“We hired him to design a microfrontend shell. He delivered that, then quietly fixed the entitlements model nobody else would touch. The shell is still in production.”