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Prashant Salunke - Software Development Engineer in Chicago, IL

Prashant Salunke

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native systems

JPMorgan ChaseIllinois Institute of TechnologyChicago, IL4 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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Backend engineer who has shipped production LLM-powered features, including an AI-assisted developer tool on AWS (Spring Boot) and a blog platform capability using embeddings + Elasticsearch for semantic retrieval and LLM-generated summaries/recommendations. Demonstrates practical tradeoff management (quality/latency/cost), guardrails to reduce hallucinations, and evaluation-driven iteration using real user queries and observability via ELK.

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Key Strengths

  • Shipped production LLM features end-to-end (build, deploy, iterate)
  • Balances LLM quality vs latency vs API cost via prompt optimization and caching
  • Built RAG workflow with embeddings + Elasticsearch semantic retrieval
  • Implemented guardrails (similarity thresholds, prompt constraints, output validation, fallbacks) to reduce hallucinations
  • Designed evaluation loop using real user queries and manual review to drive retrieval pipeline improvements
  • Built scalable ingestion/indexing pipeline with validation checks and ELK-based observability
  • Backend and distributed systems engineering (Java/Spring Boot)
  • Designing reliable service-to-service communication using REST and Kafka
  • Containerized deployment with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab) for build/test/deploy
  • Debugging and optimizing time-sensitive backend systems

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Experience

Software Development EngineerJPMorgan Chase & Co. · Aug 2025 – Present
Software Development EngineerLTIMindtree · Aug 2021 – Jul 2023

Education

Illinois Institute of Technologymaster, Computer Science (2025)
Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technologybachelor, Computer Engineering (2023)

Languages

English

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Prashant SalunkeMid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native systems