Pranav Kantawala

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States26 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams at top tech companies.
Developed scalable ad infrastructure generating $100B+ revenue.
Expert in building enterprise software and platforms.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AdTech expert with extensive experience in engineering leadership.

Contact

p_kantawala@yahoo.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsSoftware EngineeringEnterprise SoftwareBig DataScalabilityEnterprise Management Systems

Other Skills

Ads BudgetingAds Experiments & AnalyticsAds Serving infrastructureAds Syndication product developmentAlgorithmsCC++Collaboration productsCredit & LendingCustomer PlatformData & ML PlatformDeveloper PlatformDeveloper productivityFraudHorizon Catalog

About

Build Products & Infrastructure. Grow Business. Build Championship Teams.

Experience

Snowflake

Senior Director of Engineering

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

I lead the Engineering teams that build Collaboration products, Snowflake Marketplace, Horizon Catalog, Snowflake Postgres and more.
As an Eng Staff member, I contribute to building and supporting a world class Engineering team.

Collaboration productsSnowflake MarketplaceHorizon CatalogSnowflake PostgresDistributed SystemsSoftware Engineering

Plaid

2 roles

Head of Platform (VP of Engineering & GM)

Promoted

Sep 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

I led the Product and Engineering teams of Platform. My teams built and operated the Product Platform, Data & ML Platform, Developer Platform and Customer Platform. We co-developed Plaid’s 2nd Generation of products in Fraud, Credit & Lending, Payments business areas, scaled the core business through significant improvements to Product quality, Security, Privacy, Reliability and infrastructure cost efficiency, and improved developer productivity & happiness.
I also supported Plaid Engineering as an Eng Staff member and as co-lead of the Eng function.

Product PlatformData & ML PlatformDeveloper PlatformCustomer PlatformFraudCredit & Lending+9

Head of Engineering, Platform (Senior Director of Engineering)

Mar 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

Stripe

Head of Engineering, Payment Methods

Jun 2021 – Dec 2021 · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Google

Senior Director Of Engineering, Google Ads

May 2006 – Jun 2021 · 15 yrs 1 mo · Mountain View, California, United States

2019 - 2021: Led the Ads Serving infrastructure, Ads Experiments & Analytics data infrastructure, and Ads Syndication product development teams in Google Ads. We developed highly scalable and reliable infrastructure platforms, ML-based ad quality systems, and products to serve various Ad formats on all Google properties, including Google.com, Discover, Youtube, Gmail, and on third-party sites. The Ads serving and Experiments & Analytics platforms support millions of Google Ads advertisers and partners, thousands of developers at Google, and products that generate $100B+ annual revenue.
2011 - 2018: Led the Ads Budgeting and Ads Experiments teams in Google Ads. We developed infrastructure to manage millions of advertiser budgets in real-time with a high degree of accuracy, ML-based optimization systems to deliver ads through the day & month, payments data storage & processing pipelines to compute advertiser invoices, and products like Daily, Monthly, Flighted, Shared Budgets. The innovative solutions we built significantly improved advertiser value, and delivered $XX billion in incremental Google revenue.
2009 - 2010: Software Engineer on the Google Ads stats storage, and Google Search Ads serving teams. Part of the team that rewrote the entire Ads Serving system.
2006 - 2008: Software Engineer on the storage and data processing team of Google Base, a system to store and serve user-provided structured data.
Career trajectory:
2020: Senior Director of Engineering
2016: Principal Software Engineer
2013: Senior Staff Software Engineer
2011: Staff Software Engineer
2007: Senior Software Engineer
2006: Software Engineer

Ads Serving infrastructureAds Experiments & AnalyticsML-based ad quality systemsAds Syndication product developmentSoftware EngineeringScalability

Oracle usa

Principal Member of Technical Staff

Jan 2002 – May 2006 · 4 yrs 4 mos

Worked as Project Leader on the ‘Oracle Enterprise Manager’ (EM) product. EM delivers centralized management functionality for the complete IT infrastructure of an enterprise. Led the project to design several new features in the automation engine of EM, called the Job System.

Oracle Enterprise ManagerJob SystemEnterprise Management SystemsSoftware Engineering