Hi, I’m Prem 👋

I’m a Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of gently convincing computers to behave.

Most of my time is spent building:

• backend systems and APIs
• microservices and background workers
• cloud-native apps that live happily in containers and on Kubernetes

I work mainly with PHP/Symfony and Node.js/NestJS, designing REST APIs, distributed architectures, and deployments that don’t freak out when traffic spikes.
I like taking legacy systems, calming them down, and turning them into something modern, maintainable, and production-ready.

Tech snapshot ⚙️

I’m comfortable across the stack, but especially on the backend and platform side:

• Languages & Frameworks
  PHP, Symfony, Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript

• Architecture & Services
  Microservices, message queues, async workers, background jobs

• APIs & Data
  REST APIs, MySQL, Elasticsearch, caching, API gateways

• Cloud & DevOps
  Docker, Kubernetes (GKE), CI/CD, monitoring, logging, alerting

• AI & RAG
  Retrieval-Augmented Generation, vector search, embeddings, OpenAI / Azure OpenAI

I also work with a wider ecosystem of tools that support real-world, large-scale engineering:

• Event-driven systems: RabbitMQ, BullMQ, cron-based schedulers
• API gateways & traffic control: Kong, rate-limiting, auth flows
• Data & search: MySQL (optimized views, heavy queries), Elasticsearch
• AI & machine learning stack: ChromaDB, LangChain, @xenova/transformers
• Performance & monitoring: New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana, Apache Superset
• Testing & stability: Jest, Supertest, K6 load testing
• CI/CD & DevOps: Git, Jenkins, Docker pipelines, rolling deployments
• CMS engineering: Drupal 7, TYPO3, WordPress (including Bedrock-based wp-master)
• Front-end collaboration: Angular components, HTML5/CSS3, jQuery/AJAX (yes, even IE6 survived me)

I care about clean boundaries, observability, and code that the next person won’t hate me for.

Beyond the keyboard 🧭

When I’m not negotiating with compilers and containers, I’m usually feeding my curiosity in other ways:

• reading about history and how societies evolved
• following politics (sometimes for learning, sometimes for stress 😅)
• visiting historical places, forts, temples, and old streets
• wandering through forests, trekking, or just sitting quietly in nature

Trees and old stones are very patient teachers.

A small superpower 💬

One of my quiet superpowers is that I genuinely enjoy listening to people.

I’m comfortable talking to strangers, hearing their stories, and learning from different backgrounds and perspectives.
It keeps me grounded and adds a layer of empathy to how I:

• work with teams
• design systems for real humans
• handle disagreements and tough problems

In short 🌿

I’m a calm, curious, people-friendly engineer who loves:

• building solid, reliable software
• modernizing old systems without drama
• learning continuously
• exploring the world one conversation, forest trail, and Git commit at a time

Find me online 🌐

• 🐙 GitHub – github.com/premsgdev
• 💼 LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/premsg
• ✉️ Email – prem.sg.prem@gmail.com