Prashant K.

Director of Engineering

Mountain View, California, United States26 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led teams of over 100 engineers at YouTube.
Developed platforms processing petabytes of data daily.
Expert in large-scale distributed systems and data infrastructure.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AdTech expert with extensive experience in large-scale distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data InfrastructureLarge Scale SystemsAd Serving InfrastructureDistributed Systems

Other Skills

Ad ServingAnalyticsBig Data AnalyticsC++Display AdJavaLarge-scale Data ProcessingScalabilityStart-upsSupply Chain Optimization

About

Software Engineering Leader with experience managing teams of over 100 engineers, working on tough technical problems at planet-scale. Specialties: Data Warehousing and Data Infrastructure Large Scale Distributed Systems Experimentation (A/B Testing) Infrastructure Display Advertising Supply Chain Optimization Revenue and Payments

Experience

Coupang

Senior Director of Engineering

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Mountain View, California, United States · On-site

Youtube

Director Of Engineering

Feb 2016 – Apr 2022 · 6 yrs 2 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

Director in YouTube Data Warehousing responsible for leading an organization of > 100 Engineers and Eng Managers. My team built systems which processed petabytes of data everyday and servers which served millions of QPS. I led the following areas :-
Experiments Platform - Platform for A/B testing across YT, which served over 2K developers.
Revenue+Payments - Platform for accurately disbursing ~$XXB RevShare to ~XM creators annually.
Data Enrichment Services - Platform for storing and serving video features for applications across YT.
Metrics - Building critical metrics and reports exposed to YT creators, regulators and exec decision makers.

Large Scale SystemsLarge-scale Data ProcessingDistributed SystemsData Infrastructure

Google

Senior Staff Software Engineer / Manager

Apr 2007 – Apr 2016 · 9 yrs · Mountain View, California, United States

Worked as a Tech Lead Manager in various parts of the Ads organization. Was Tech Lead for :-
DoubleClick Ad Serving Infrastructure
Dynamic Ads Serving Infrastructure - Grew the Dynamic Ad Server from inception to $XXXM
My team built servers which indexed millions of items and served millions of QPS in milliseconds.

Large Scale SystemsDistributed SystemsC++Ad Serving Infrastructure

Wily technologies

Software Engineer

Aug 2006 – May 2007 · 9 mos

Developed software for Java performance management.

Supplychainge inc.

VP Product Development

Feb 2001 – Apr 2006 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Led development of an enterprise app for managing supply chains for short-lifecycle products from ground up.
Responsible for initial technical conception and design of the application.
Managed a distributed team of engineers in the US and India.
Conducted opportunity analysis for customers; led engineering presentations during evaluation of the product.
Wrote 2 patent applications for the company.
Customers included Gap Inc. and New Balance shoes. The company was acquired by Predictix LLC in 2006.

Amazon.com

Software Engineer

Jul 1999 – Feb 2001 · 1 yr 7 mos

Led development of an application for inventory optimization across Amazon's warehouses.

D.e. shaw & co.

Software Engineer

Jul 1998 – Jul 1999 · 1 yr

Software Developer for a statistical arbitrage group, trading Global Equities.

Caterpillar

Summer Intern

May 1998 – Jul 1998 · 2 mos

Developed software for grasp analysis of mechanical components under the influence of fixtures and robot fingers.
Developed plan and methodology for using ProEngineer for process planning throughout Caterpillar.