Kumar Prabhash
Anand

Senior Software Engineer · Berlin, Germany

I build backend systems for a living, mostly in Java. At Zalando, I help parcels find their humans. Outside work I contribute to open source, write about Java and distributed systems, and build small AI tools for developers.

LinkedIn ↗ Medium ↗ GitHub ↗

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Years of writing bugs professionally

Companies that haven't fired me yet

% less manual toil. Small wins.

Articles on Medium (and counting)

Open Source

Things I've built or contributed to

OpenFeign ↗

HTTP QUERY method (RFC 10008)

Added the new QUERY method to Feign core, the mock client and the HTTP cache.

loremfile.dev ↗

Free test files for every file type

CC0 sample files with stable URLs and a SHA-256 for each one. Lorem Picsum, but for files.

Claude skill ↗

java-springboot-code-review

Reviews Java and Spring Boot code for the stuff linters miss: @Transactional traps, N+1 queries, IDOR, race conditions.

Claude Code agents ↗

ai-product-team

11 sub-agents that work like a small product team: PM, engineering, code review, QA, security, DevOps.

Technical Skills

What I work with

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Languages

Java 8–24 Python 3 Go Kotlin

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Backend & Architecture

Distributed Systems Microservices Event-Driven Low-Latency

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Agentic AI

RAG LangChain LangGraph Agent Design

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Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS GCP Azure Kubernetes Docker Terraform

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Data & Storage

RDBMS Elasticsearch Redis Message Queues

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Delivery & Reliability

CI/CD Observability On-call Zero-downtime

Experience

Places that trusted me with prod access

Jul 2022 – Present

Zalando

Berlin, Germany

Senior Software Engineer

Helping onboard About You warehouses onto the Zalando label platform after acquisition. Lots of meetings. Some code.
Designing an Agentic AI system (always-on assistant + incident responder) — teaching robots to read our runbooks so we don't have to.
Fixing addresses, automating the painful stuff, surviving peak traffic… and so it goes.
Running hackdays and learning sessions for the team. Wrote Java articles for Baeldung on the side.

Dec 2019 – May 2022

Siemens

Pune, India

Software Engineer

Worked on IIoT platform core systems. Gateway services, 8–10K RPS, the usual anxiety.
Cut projected costs by a meaningful amount while keeping SLAs intact. Zero-downtime deploys too — slept better after.
Shipped Freemium features. Turns out free tiers are never actually free to build.

Jul 2016 – Dec 2019

BirlaSoft

Pune, India

Software Engineer

Built enterprise backends for large clients — microservices, integrations, production fires. Won Employee of the Month once. Still the highlight of my LinkedIn.
Delivered a Mulesoft tax integration solo. Still not entirely sure how tax works.

Writing