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Bishal Prasad

Director of Engineering

Hyderabad, Telangana, India19 yrs 2 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building high-performance engineering teams.
  • Proven track record in developing multi-tenant SaaS solutions.
  • Strong leadership in DevOps and cloud-native technologies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on DevOps and cloud-native solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product LeadershipSoftware ArchitectureFront-end DevelopmentSystems Design

Other Skills

.NET FrameworkAgile MethodologiesData EngineeringData WarehousingDevOpsDistributed SystemsGo (Programming Language)Hands-on Technical LeadershipHigh Availability (HA)High Performance CulturesMulti-Tenant ManagementNode.jsOpen-Source SoftwarePeople ManagementRuby on Rails

About

Experienced software engineering manager passionate about building products that excite users and solve their problems in a simplistic manner. Love to build self-driving and high performance teams that constantly knock at the technological challenges and solve complex problems. Dedicated to create engineering and operational excellence leading to an engaging work environment and meeting high customer expectations. I have built and maintained multi-tenant and highly available SaaS services in the domain of DevOps, unblocking developer across globe to achieve fast paced and continuous loop of development, validation and deployment of their application to cloud and to on-premise platforms. These products let developers focus on their core problem while the product takes care of day to day development/deployment/monitoring asks. I possess experience and expertise on various technologies spanning from backend to frontend to cloud-native to observability.

Experience

Eightfold

Director of Engineering

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Nium

2 roles

Senior Director of Engineering

Apr 2025Aug 2025 · 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Director of Engineering

Sep 2023Apr 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Github

2 roles

Staff engineering manager

Sep 2021Aug 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

  • Part of GitHub Actions.
  • Led the engineering to build highly-available, reliable and optimized cache system for CI used for millions of large object save/restore per hour. Also, build cache management experience to list and manage caches through different types of client interfaces.
  • Revamped the getting started experience for Actions with repository code analysis based
  • recommendation system. This doubled the update of suggested workflows. Created open source and inner source collaborations with community and partners.
  • Enhanced the extensible "bring your own storage" for on-premise customers to support
  • multi cloud offering by enabling Google cloud support. These unlocked hundreds of
  • enterprises to use Actions. Also managed a self-serve system to allow third storage providers
  • do validations and sign-offs, thereby broadening the storage options.
  • Building a near-real time Actions Insights feature for users to enable them to use Actions
  • more effectively. A huge volume of Actions run data is continuously collected from
  • multiple decision points in the backend, and then co-related and aggregated to present
  • various facets of insights via a simple UI.
Hands-on Technical LeadershipRuby on RailsOpen-Source SoftwareProduct LeadershipSoftware ArchitectureHigh Availability (HA)+5

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Oct 2020Aug 2021 · 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Remote

  • Part of multi-cloud ecosystems.
  • Led and grew the team from 5 to 10 engineers and managed the change from Microsoft to
  • GitHub while handling key vacant positions.
  • Led the engineering to create and operate two services from scratch. Template service lists
  • applicable workflow templates, and the Provisioning service handles creation of pre-requisites
  • and checking-in a CD yaml manifest. These services enabled Actions led DevOps for applications deploying to different cloud ecosystems.
  • Using above services, created an ecosystem of integrations including VS Code and Visual
  • Studio experiences to drive this seamless onboarding right from the home of developers,
  • giving them frictionless end to end interactions.
TypeScriptHands-on Technical LeadershipAgile MethodologiesOpen-Source SoftwareProduct LeadershipSoftware Architecture+4

Microsoft

4 roles

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2019Sep 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Part of Azure DevOps product. Built seamless and high fidelity integration between Azure and Azure DevOps (and GitHub Actions) to enable Azure customers to use Azure DevOps for Day0 and DayN CI/CD and traceability. This enabled DevOps story for different Azure services like Web Apps, AKS
  • and VM.
Hands-on Technical LeadershipPeople ManagementProduct LeadershipSoftware ArchitectureNode.jsDistributed Systems+4

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2017Jul 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Part of Azure DevOps product.
  • Was part of team that built DevOps starter experience in Azure with first party integration
  • that offered guided pathways across systems with seamless authorization flow. Implemented the resource provider backend handling thousands of CRUD operations per day. Designed and created frontend with a config-as-code driven architecture which allowed easy augmentation of UI features
  • with templatization resulting in quick enhancement shippings.
  • Built Deployment centers for Azure kubernetes service and Azure virtual machines which
  • allows users to manage the deployment lifecycle through Azure DevOps build and release
  • suites. This leveraged and integrated with technologies like k8s manifests, helm charts,
  • docker, packer etc. Also built a virtual machine extension for tag based deployment
  • strategy using VM scale set based deployment groups.
TypeScriptcloudFront-End DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesHigh Availability (HA)Node.js+3

Software Engineer 2

Promoted

Dec 2013Aug 2017 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Azure DevOps - part of the team which built Release management product. This allows developers to define Continuous delivery process for their application with ability to run phase wise, named and retry-able deployments with high availability for millions of jobs per month. Also built an extension for tag based deployment strategy using VM scale set based deployment groups.
  • Developer Analytics product - Built a server analytics product which had capability to push log events using an SDK to a log analytics backend, and subsequently surfaced to application developers.
  • SQL manageability tools - Created API and object model layers for SQL engine backed
  • functionalities like point-in-time restore
TypeScriptSoftware ArchitectureNode.jsDistributed Systems.NET FrameworkDevOps

Software Development Engineer in Test 2

May 2010Dec 2013 · 3 yrs 7 mos

.NET Framework

Nvidia

Software Engineer

Aug 2006Apr 2010 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Pune Area, India

  • Worked on Pure Video technology which enabled DirectX Video Acceleration and Postprocessing by programming GPUs. Worked on DirectShow, different coding standards and co-ordinated with different third party decoders.
  • Worked on bitstream error recovery effort. This enabled HW to be able to recover from
  • error in H264 bitstream instead of going into a hung/unstable state. This required top to
  • bottom changes from Hardware to application level interactions.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Dual Degree — Computer Science & Engg

Jan 2001Jan 2006

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