KIRAN PRABHAKARA

Director of Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States23 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led teams at Google Cloud for VM deployment systems.
  • Managed customer experience initiatives at AWS DynamoDB.
  • Designed Media Transfer Protocol for DVD technology.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Software Development expert with a focus on customer experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentCloud ComputingCustomer ExperienceProtocol Design

Other Skills

AdvertisingAnalysisAnalyticsB2BBrand ManagementConsultingData AnalyticsDvdFinancial Statement AnalysisHubsManagement ConsultingMarketingOperating SystemsOrchestrationProduct Management

Experience

Oracle

Senior Director of Software Engineering

Aug 2025Present · 7 mos · On-site

Google

Senior Software Development Manager

Jan 2024Sep 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

  • Senior Manager, Software Development at Google Cloud, Compute Engine, Seattle WA 2024– Present
  • As a Senior Manager with Google Compute Engine Node (GCE) team, I lead couple of teams building the next generation deployment system for the Google Cloud Virtual Machines. The teams are responsible for configuring and initiating the creation and updates of GCE’s millions of virtual machines. The teams are working on coalescing VM and Kernel updates into single operation reducing customer disruption and duplicated work. The teams primary focus areas include release configuration, orchestration, observability, analytics and operations.
Software DevelopmentCloud Computing

Amazon

3 roles

Senior Software Development Manager

Promoted

Oct 2018Jan 2024 · 5 yrs 3 mos

  • Senior Manager, Software Development at Amazon, AWS DynamoDB, Seattle WA 2022– 2023
  • As a Senior Manager with AWS DynamoDB, I led the DynamoDB Frontend organization. DynamoDB Frontend organization’s charter is to provide a service that allows DynamoDB customers to connect to DynamoDB endpoints in all regions seamlessly and securely, authenticate and authorize customer requests and route requests to the storage end point based on the data in the request with high availability, scalability and low latency. The team’s charter also includes providing
  • the best customer experience in creating, managing and accessing DynamoDB resources (tables and indexes) using DynamoDB APIs.
  • Senior Manager, Software Development at Amazon, AWS S3, Seattle WA 2018– 2022
  • As a Senior Manager with AWS S3, I led the S3 Storage Insights Organization. The Storage Insights mission is to help customers understand ‘what’ data they have, ‘how’ their data is being used, and the ‘actions’ they can take on their data via insights and analytics. Apart from S3 Insights, I have also managed S3 Console.
Software DevelopmentCustomer Experience

Manager Software Development

Apr 2016Jan 2024 · 7 yrs 9 mos

Senior Technical Program Manager

Sep 2014Apr 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Hiring SDE I and SDE II for my team. Send your profile if you are interested.

Huawei

Project Manager

Jan 2011Sep 2014 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • · Line Management
  • · Customer Interaction
  • · Requirements management.
  • · Resource management.
  • · Product Road mapping
  • · Product delivery planning.
  • · Coordinating and Negotiating with different teams from across the globe.

Nokia

Senior Engineer/ Product Owner

Aug 2007Feb 2011 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Currently performing the role of Scrum Master for a team maintaining the Home Connectivity stack on the Symbian operating system.
  • Previously performed the role of Product owner for the service discovery team with in Nokia.
  • I have led a team of software engineers in developing the Zeroconf (Bonjour) stack for the Symbian operating system.
  • I was part of a multi site OS development Sounding Board resolving outstanding issues facing the software teams in different geographical location.

Philips software center

2 roles

Technical Leader

Nov 2003Jul 2007 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • I was responsible for designing and developing the Media Transfer Protocol stack for the DVD recorder project.

Tech Lead

Nov 2003Jul 2007 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • I was part of a two-member team, which developed Media Transfer Protocol Stack on Philips DVD recorder.
  • I was part of team, which received outstanding contribution award within the company.

Infosys technologies

Software Engineer

Sep 2002Nov 2003 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • I was working as a Software Engineer for Bank Of America working on J2EE platform.

Education

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

PGSEM — MBA

Jan 2007Jan 2010

B. M. S. College of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Science

Jan 1998Jan 2002

BMS College of Engineering

BE — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 1998Jan 2002

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Computer Science

Jan 1998Jan 2002

NHS

high school

Jan 1993Jan 1996

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