Available for Consulting

Prashant
Thorat

Independent Software Consultant

I help startups and scaling businesses architect, build, and evolve secure SaaS platforms — from early design to production-grade microservices on AWS.

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16+ Years of Experience
5+ Industries Served
4+ SaaS Products Shipped
NIT Durgapur, CS&E
Verticals
Fintech & Remittance FX Trading & Capital Markets Travel Tech Media & Video SaaS Enterprise IT
Prashant Thorat — Independent Software Consultant Prashant Thorat Independent Software Consultant
About Me

Engineer by training.
Consultant by choice.

With 16+ years of hands-on software engineering, I've moved from writing Java servlets to architecting multi-tenant SaaS platforms processing millions of financial transactions — at companies ranging from IBM to fintech startups.

I'm now channeling that experience into independent consulting, helping product companies and engineering teams make the right architectural decisions early, build platforms that don't crack under scale, and ship with confidence.

My sweet spot is the intersection of complex business domains and backend engineering — whether that's a compliance-aware remittance engine, an event-driven trading platform, or a greenfield SaaS MVP that needs to grow fast.

Java Specialist AWS Practitioner Microservices Multi-Tenant SaaS Security & Compliance
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16+

Years architecting and shipping production software across multiple industries

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AWS

EC2, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS — cloud-native patterns from day one

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Secure

Compliance modules, AML/KYC APIs, and audit-ready system design

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NIT

B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering from NIT Durgapur, CGPA 7.96

What I Do

Consulting Services

Focused, high-impact engagements — whether you need a technical co-founder for early-stage decisions, or a senior hand to untangle and scale what you've built.

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SaaS Architecture & Product Design

Design the right foundation before a single line of production code is written. I work with your team to define service boundaries, data models, and scalability strategies tailored to your business.

  • Multi-tenant architecture and tenant isolation strategies
  • API contract design and service decomposition
  • Event-driven system design (Kafka, SQS)
  • Architecture review and tech debt assessment
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Microservices & API Platform Engineering

Build backend systems that handle real-world load, degrade gracefully, and are a pleasure to operate. Deep expertise in the Java/Spring ecosystem deployed on AWS.

  • Spring Boot microservices design and implementation
  • High-throughput, low-latency REST & async APIs
  • Search infrastructure with Apache Solr / Elasticsearch
  • Performance profiling and bottleneck resolution
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Secure Fintech Platform Development

Financial software demands a higher bar — for correctness, security, and auditability. I bring direct experience building remittance, trading, and compliance systems that regulators and auditors accept.

  • AML / KYC compliance module design
  • Secure remittance & payment platform engineering
  • FX and market data integration
  • Audit trail, data integrity, and transaction consistency
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Engineering Team Setup & Mentoring

Early engineering culture shapes everything. I help founders and engineering leads hire right, establish healthy processes, and grow a team that ships reliably without burning out.

  • Engineering hiring criteria & technical interviews
  • Code review culture and quality gate setup
  • Junior developer onboarding and mentoring frameworks
  • Engineering rituals: stand-ups, retrospectives, RFC process
Career

Where I've Worked

Over 16 years across fintech, capital markets, travel tech, and media — always focused on backend systems that need to be fast, correct, and secure.

Al Mulla Exchange Senior Engineer → Tech Lead Sep 2017 — Present · 8+ yrs

Multi-channel (online, kiosk, branch) remittance platform serving Kuwait and global corridors. Engaged via Radram Quality Services Pvt. Ltd. Grew from Senior Engineer to de-facto Tech Lead, owning architecture, quality, security, and team growth across multiple product lines.

  • Designed and built a multi-tenant architecture using Hibernate for tenant isolation across online, kiosk, and branch channels
  • Developed compliance and customer management APIs — the backbone of AML/KYC enforcement
  • Architected microservices using Spring Boot, following clean software design principles
  • Implemented dynamic beneficiary additional fields for multi-country corridors (INR, BDT, LKR) driven by country-specific business logic
  • Provided backend API support for the Flutter mobile app, enabling cross-platform remittance flows
  • Built backend services for Myrateb — an internal HR/payroll adjacent product
  • Led performance optimisation initiatives: database query tuning, bottleneck analysis, and caching strategies resulting in measurably faster API response times
  • Collaborated with the security / VAPT team to triage findings, apply remediations, and close vulnerability windows under tight deadlines
  • Established and maintained code review standards and documentation practices across the engineering team
  • Handled high-pressure production incidents end-to-end — diagnosis, hotfix, post-mortem, and prevention
  • Mentored junior developers on design principles, code quality, and professional growth
  • Participated actively in technical hiring — interviewing for both technical depth and cultural fit
Spring Boot Microservices Multi-Tenant Hibernate Flutter Backend Compliance APIs VAPT / Security Performance Tuning Multi-Country Logic Fintech
Dion Global Solutions Tech Lead Nov 2016 — Sep 2017 · 1 yr

Tech lead on two products in the financial services space — Dfferentia (FX Options trading & pricing platform) and AFMAdata (benchmark index administration for Australian financial markets).

  • Developed volatility data upload, aggregation, and LSV model integration for the GMD module
  • Built the Scheduler module for AFMAdata using Spring Scheduler, Spring Boot JPA, and Spring REST
  • Contributed to FX, IR, market data, and liquidity modules
Spring Boot FX / IR Market Data Spring Scheduler Capital Markets
Cinemacraft India Pvt. Ltd. Senior Software Engineer Nov 2014 — Oct 2016 · 2 yrs

Backend engineering for Videogram — a patented online video SaaS platform that makes video discoverable, engageable, measurable, and monetizable at scale.

  • Built video search infrastructure using Apache Solr
  • Developed RESTful backend APIs using the Jersey framework, following API best practices
  • Designed and implemented push notification service on Amazon SNS
  • Leveraged AWS EC2, S3, DynamoDB, and SQS for cloud-native features
AWS (EC2, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS) Apache Solr Jersey Video SaaS
Via.com Software Engineer Dec 2011 — Nov 2014 · 3 yrs

Backend development on Flight and Holiday products at one of India's leading B2B online travel agencies.

  • Integrated airline APIs with the flight booking product
  • Built holiday search and order management using Java Servlets and JSP
  • Automated CRM workflows, reducing operational overhead
  • Mentored junior team members
Java Airline APIs Travel Tech CRM
IBM GBS Associate System Administrator Jul 2010 — Nov 2011 · 1.5 yrs

RENFE (Spanish national rail) Maximo 6→7 upgrade project. Developed operational reports using Eclipse BIRT for IBM Maximo at scale.

IBM Maximo Eclipse BIRT Enterprise IT
Tech Stack

Tools & Technologies

Proven in production across financial, travel, and media platforms.

Backend & Frameworks

Java 8+ Spring Boot Spring REST Spring JPA Hibernate Jersey (JAX-RS) Spring Scheduler Multithreading

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS EC2 AWS S3 AWS DynamoDB AWS SQS AWS SNS Maven Gradle Git

Data & Search

MySQL Oracle MongoDB Redis Memcached Apache Solr DynamoDB Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana

Frontend

JavaScript React React Native jQuery HTML5 CSS3

Architecture & Practices

Microservices Distributed Systems Algorithms & Data Structures Multi-Tenant SaaS REST API Design Event-Driven Agile / Scrum Code Review Standards Compliance Engineering High Availability Cross-Platform Backend Multi-Country Business Logic

Performance & Security

DB Query Optimisation System Bottleneck Analysis Caching Strategies VAPT Collaboration Vulnerability Remediation Risk Mitigation Planning Production Incident Response

Leadership & People

Technical Mentoring Capability Development Technical Interviewing Cultural Fit Assessment Code Review Culture Engineering Onboarding Documentation Standards
Get In Touch

Let's build something great together.

Whether you have a platform that needs a second opinion, a greenfield SaaS product to architect, or a team that needs a senior hand — I'm happy to start with a conversation.

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Email prashantnitdgp@gmail.com
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Phone +91 75069 00840
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LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/pthorat
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GitHub github.com/pat246

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