About Subrat
I'm a software engineer who likes going deep into systems—and explaining them simply.
For over a decade, I've designed and scaled large-scale, data-intensive backend systems—distributed architectures, event-driven workflows, and the real-time services and pipelines behind them. I've shipped production systems at Amazon and Google, including 0-to-1 work on Google's VM Manager (the core control plane for managing VMs at scale) and the Google Meet 3P API.
Today I'm a founding staff engineer at Share.xyz, where I designed and built the distributed backend for a real-time prediction-market platform—trading, copy trading, auto-redemption, feeds, notifications, and leaderboards—along with the on-chain execution and security layers that make autonomous, social trading safe at scale. I also help shape technical strategy and roadmap alongside the founders.
I write and share practical lessons on distributed systems, software architecture, and long-term engineering growth—grounded in what it actually takes to ship, scale, and operate systems in the real world.
Career Path
Founding Staff Engineer @ Share.xyz
2024 — Present
Designed and built the distributed backend for a real-time prediction-market platform—trading, copy trading, auto-redemption, feeds, notifications, and leaderboards—plus the on-chain execution and security layers (server-side signing, transaction-level threat detection, wallet infrastructure) behind safe social trading. Set the observability and deployment foundation, and help drive technical strategy with the founders.
Software Engineer @ Google
2018 — 2024
Worked across Google Compute Engine and Google Meet. On VM Manager, built cloud-scale billing pipelines and an asynchronous framework powering fleet-wide VM operations. On Meet, led the third-party API work—launching Huddles in Google Chat and a Meet events notification system handling ~10K events/sec—and later built core components of Duet AI for Meet.
Software Engineer @ Amazon
2014 — 2018
Built large-scale backend systems across AWS and the seller platform—an edge-accelerated S3 upload pipeline on CloudFront, zero-downtime blue-green deployments, cross-region failover, and bulk shipment workflows for sellers operating at scale.
Contact
If you want to talk about systems or have a question about my writing, find me on LinkedIn or email me at subratkprasad@gmail.com.