Skip to main content

Prakhar Singh

Founding Engineer @ DubaiDeals.liveex-VP Engineering @ Deutsche Bank

Professional Summary

Principal engineer and engineering leader with 12+ years across FinTech, EdTech, and e-commerce. Builds hands-on across edge-first platforms, LLM systems, and developer tooling, and has led engineering teams of up to 30 across three countries. Recent focus: agentic AI, retrieval-augmented generation, LLM orchestration and evaluation, and edge architectures.

Skills

Leadership & Management: Engineering Strategy, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), Roadmapping, Hiring, Mentoring, Stakeholder Engagement.
Core Technologies (Web/Mobile): JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, Node.js, Python, React.js, React Native, WebRTC.
Data & Infrastructure: Distributed Systems, REST, GraphQL, APIs, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis.
Cloud & DevOps: AWS, GCP, CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins), Observability (Sentry, Datadog), Kubernetes (K8s), Docker, Terraform.
AI & Machine Learning: Agentic AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), LLM Orchestration, LLM Evaluation, Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI (GenAI), Machine Learning (ML), Predictive Analytics, Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex.

Work

Founding Engineer

DubaiDeals.live

Remote

- Current

DubaiDeals.live is a consumer web platform aggregating every restaurant deal in Dubai on one live map: The Entertainer, Zomato, Careem, Talabat, Deliveroo, and UAE bank dining programmes.

  • Architected an edge-first serving stack on Cloudflare Workers that reads from a KV cache refreshed by an hourly scraper cron, with zero database calls at request time.
  • Built aggregation pipelines ingesting deals from The Entertainer, Zomato, Careem, Talabat, Deliveroo, and UAE bank dining programmes (ADCB, Emirates NBD, HSBC, DIB, RAKBANK).
  • Shipped 'Ask Savyt', a retrieval-first deal-search assistant on Workers AI (Llama 3.1 8B): the model parses user intent only, while deterministic code ranks and renders deals from the KV cache, one model call per query.
  • Delivered a live map interface answering 'what discounts can I get tonight, near me?'

Vice President, Engineering

Deutsche Bank (DWS)

Pune, Maharashtra

-

Working for The DWS Group GmbH & Co. KGaA (DWS), one of Deutsche Bank's associated, publicly traded asset managers. As Vice President of Engineering, I led a global cross-functional engineering organization delivering AI-driven trading automation and predictive analytics products.

  • Led a 30-person engineering organization across India, the UK, and Spain, coordinating product, QA, UX, and DevOps delivery.
  • Led delivery of an AI/ML trading-automation platform and predictive-analytics dashboards credited with ~€35M annual revenue uplift.
  • Built proprietary AI models and pipelines for anomaly detection, underwriting automation, fraud prediction, and incident response.
  • Integrated generative-AI copilots and RAG-based assistants into engineering workflows, improving developer productivity ~25%.
  • Built a career-progression framework for engineers that improved retention and internal mobility ~30%.
  • Established the DWS UI Platform, standardizing the design language and component library across the engineering org.
  • Introduced a Sentry and Datadog observability stack, cutting MTTR ~40%.

Principal Engineer

Noon Academy

Bengaluru, Karnataka

-

Noon Academy is an EdTech platform serving millions of students across 8 countries with multi-platform exam modules and adaptive learning. As Principal Engineer, I led mobile and web platform engineering, performance optimization, and personalization features.

  • Unified the mobile codebase on React Native, improving cross-platform consistency and developer efficiency.
  • Reduced app load time by 50% through lazy loading, bundle optimization, and performance tuning across React Native and Web.
  • Delivered multi-platform exam modules used by 2M+ concurrent students during peak seasons at 99.9% uptime across 8 countries.
  • Built native performance plugins and standardized the component library and UX patterns.
  • Shipped personalization features (adaptive learning paths, content recommendations) that lifted student engagement by 20%.
  • Mentored the UI engineering team and improved development velocity across squads.
  • Adopted automated QA and anomaly detection, shortening release cycles and reducing defect leakage.

Assistant Vice President

Deutsche Bank (DWS)

Pune, Maharashtra

-

Working for The DWS Group GmbH & Co. KGaA (DWS), one of Deutsche Bank's associated, publicly traded asset managers. As Assistant Vice President, I led front-end engineering for key financial groups, building multi-channel UIs and contributing to the bank's Core Platform UI Libraries.

  • Led development of multi-channel User Interfaces for key financial groups (Funds Treasury, Regulatory Reporting), ensuring uniform UX across web, mobile, and desktop platforms.
  • Directed a team of 10+ engineers, defining technical roadmaps and implementing a formal coaching and mentoring program to accelerate team growth.
  • Managed project delivery across global stakeholders (Architects, PM, UX, QA) located in Pune, Frankfurt, London, and New York.
  • Architected and contributed to the bank's Core Platform UI Libraries, driving component reuse and long-term strategic goals.
  • Established team engineering practices: Agile delivery, TDD, peer review, and regular knowledge-sharing sessions.
  • Ran lateral and graduate hiring loops, including technical challenges and interviews.

Senior Software Engineer

Noon E-Commerce

Gurugram, Haryana

-

noon.com is an e-commerce platform with a large catalog targeting customers in UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. As Senior Software Engineer, I owned the front-end of the entire logistics and supply chain across several web and mobile applications.

  • Drove front-end development for logistics and supply chain systems.
  • Delivered logistics and supply-chain UIs in close collaboration with design and backend teams.
  • Coached junior engineers, accelerating their onboarding.
  • Deployed mission-critical projects on AWS and GCP.

Senior JavaScript Engineer

TalkValley LLC

Remote

-

mentorstudents.org is a US-based product startup that connects prospective students with current/ex-students and hiring managers via recorded video interviews. As Senior JavaScript Engineer, I owned the front-end and backend of the recording, transcription, and listing pipeline.

  • Led development of a video interview platform using WebRTC.
  • Managed a remote team of 5 engineers and trained interns.

Web Developer

Simsaw Software Pvt. Ltd.

Mohali, Punjab

-

Simsaw Software (formerly Pink Hand Technologies) is a service-based company with multiple US-based clients. As Web Developer, I built high-performance and scalable web and mobile applications.

  • Delivered full-stack solutions using Node.js, AngularJS, React.js, and other open-source JavaScript libraries.
  • Created technical documentation and implemented unit tests.
  • Collaborated in agile teams to deliver client solutions.

Education

Master of Computer Applications

Maharishi Markandeshwar University

-

Bachelor of Computer Applications

Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University

-