Prashanthi Padmanabhan

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States27 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering for innovative AI-powered products.
Strong advocate for Women in Tech community.
Expert in building scalable SaaS solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on product management and technical leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipProduct Management

Other Skills

Software DevelopmentUser ExperienceMobile ApplicationsManagementMobile DevicesSystem ArchitectureScalabilityOrganizational LeadershipStrategic LeadershipE-CommerceStrategic VisionPublic SpeakingMonetizationSocial CommerceData Analytics

About

I lead engineering for LinkedIn Talent Solutions Enterprise business, working with a stellar team building cutting-edge Hiring, Learning and Career Development products. With the power of LLMs and Agentic AI tech, we are on a mission to improve efficiency for recruiters by automating repetitive workflows, so they can focus on strategic human touchpoints that really matter - landing the best candidate for a role. In Learning, we are building AI-powered interactive and personalized learning and coaching products, helping companies build in-demand AI and human skills. We are constantly innovating on ways to help companies and employees navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape, through products that power career development, workforce agility, and strategic talent mobility. As an Exec Sponsor for the Women in Tech community at LinkedIn, I support an amazing team of WIT leaders, building a strong community of women technologists and nurturing skills-centric growth. I enjoy innovating at the intersection of business, technology and people!

Experience

6 roles

Executive Sponsor, Women in Tech @ LinkedIn

Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos

VP Engineering, LinkedIn Talent Solutions

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr

Software DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipProduct Management

VP Engineering, LinkedIn Premium

Promoted

May 2024 – Mar 2025 · 10 mos

Leading engineering for LinkedIn Premium, building a world-class online subscription platform that powers multiple business lines at LinkedIn and creates Premium value for our customers. Recent focus has been on creating a suite of generative AI powered features that helps our customers achieve their goals more effectively on the LinkedIn platform.

Software DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipProduct Management

Global Lead, Women in Tech @ LinkedIn

Jul 2023 – Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Leading the global community of Women Technologists at LinkedIn, with focus on community building and nurturing skills-centric growth. Our mission is to connect, inspire, and grow women technologists to build solutions that reflect the diversity of our members and customers.
Skills are the hottest currency in the future of work. When you gain a skill, it's yours to keep. Intentional skill building can be a great equalizer in connecting diverse professionals to economic opportunities.

Senior Director of Engineering, LinkedIn Premium

Promoted

Jun 2021 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Leading engineering for LinkedIn Premium business, building a world-class online subscription platform that powers multiple business lines and creates Premium value for our customers. Our mission is to amplify the power of the LinkedIn platform to help customers achieve their goals more effectively.

Software DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipProduct Management

Director of Engineering, LinkedIn Marketing Solutions

Mar 2019 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Led Advertiser Experience for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, LinkedIn’s fastest-growing business line with a vision to create economic growth opportunity for every organization worldwide.

Software DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipProduct Management

Yahoo

Senior Technical Director - Yahoo / Verizon Media

Jan 2018 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Sunnyvale, California, United States · On-site

Co-authored the strategy and led the Inbox Commerce initiative for Yahoo Mail.

Software DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipProduct Management

Aol

2 roles

Senior Technical Director and Head of Engineering, Alto Mail

Jan 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

Led a stellar full-stack team in building Alto’s iOS, Android and Web experiences, backend services, data science platform, and integrations with Alexa and Slack. An innovative email and calendar app with a 4.5 star rating and an outstanding NPS of 60%, Alto Mail was featured 8 times in the App Store just in 2016, listed under Time's "Best Apps of 2016" and a nominee for "Best Productivity App" at The Webby Awards in 2017.

Technical Director, Communication Products Engineering

Jul 2012 – Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Led the full-stack engineering team that owned AOL Webmail, the flagship product of AOL and drove major platform re-architecture, product launch and UX redesign initiatives.
Launched the first major redesign of AOL Mail that led to double-digit growth in monetization and better engagement. Iterative full-stack optimizations improved application performance by 50%.
Launched a unified SaaS platform that served Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Content and Notifications data for AOL Mail users across mobile and desktop applications.
Launched a HTML5 mobile web experience for AOL Mail.
Launched Alto Mail for Web, a next-gen email experience that aggregated multiple email accounts, organized mailbox into Stacks, and presented emails as rich interactive Cards.

Software DevelopmentTechnical Leadership

Aol inc.

Principal Software Quality Engineer / Tech Manager / Senior Tech Manager

Jul 2002 – Jun 2012 · 9 yrs 11 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · On-site

Led engineering for AOL Webmail, with focus around enhancing usability and boosting performance of end-to-end web application infrastructure.
Led engineering for myAOL and AOL Favorites suite of products, driving the launch of myAOL Portals in 25 locales, backed by a multi-million dollar distribution deal with HP. Launched OpenSocial based widgets development platform for myAOL.
Led dev-test efforts for Calendaring and Photos Management products like AOL Calendar, Sync and Pictures. Specialized in performance tuning, network protocol analysis, load testing and automation. Bootstrapped the first offshore team in Bangalore.

Software DevelopmentTechnical Leadership