Prasanna Vijayanathan

Software Engineer

Sunnyvale, California, United States13 yrs 11 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led AI-driven initiatives at Netflix for enhanced user experience.
Expert in Generative AI and its applications in software development.
Strong leadership in technical and strategic roles across multiple organizations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused AI and Machine Learning expert in the Entertainment industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Deep LearningGenerative AiMlopsApplied Machine LearningStrategyTechnical LeadershipManagementCloud ComputingBack-end Web DevelopmentPython (programming Language)Mobile Devices

Other Skills

Node.jsNatural Language Processing (NLP)Technical DirectionGraphQLMySQLReact.jsData AnalysisResearch SkillsNeural NetworksComputer ScienceSystems DesignPerformance TuningKnowledge GraphsLarge Language Models (LLM)Board level experience

About

A passionate engineer and leader, I strive for performance and efficiency. I am fervent about using technology to create opportunities for everyone! At Netflix, I lead initiatives to help build high performance applications through better observability, insights and personalizing user experience, across all platforms - on mobile, web and TV using a lot of data, machine learning and Generative AI. I head teams and guide boards in the space of social good initiatives (education, sustainability and smart cities) towards AI-driven solutions that are fair and equitable. I invest in organizations that align with my passion, using technology like Gen AI to build socially impactful products and ideas. Talk to me if you want to learn more. I drive standards in IEEE to come up with better regulations and frameworks in AI and sustainability. Check out some of them I’m actively working on: - Safety by design for Generative AI to prioritize child safety. - Framework for building Sustainable Mobility systems. Learn more in my talks and blogs!

Experience

13 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

RIM

– Present

Mobile DevicesComputer SciencePerformance Tuning

American society for ai

Distinguished member

Nov 2023 – Apr 2024 · 5 mos

Applied Machine Learning

Ai applied consortium

Member Board of Trustees

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

Deep LearningNatural Language Processing (NLP)Applied Machine LearningStrategyBoard level experienceExecutive Advisory+2

Speakhire

Executive Board Member

Feb 2022 – Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Technical LeadershipNatural Language Processing (NLP)Technical DirectionManagementApplied Machine LearningEngineering Management+10

Netflix

Software Engineering

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

I lead initiatives to observe, learn and optimize the Netflix app experience for our users all over the world, across TV, mobile and web. I focus on application performance, observability and monitoring, and developer productivity through data and AI to provide improved insights about our users. I work with leaders of different teams like AI, data science, devices, APIs and UI/UX to build end-to-end products and features to provide the best experience to our users.
Some innovations that I’ve been driving:
End-to-end Observability with AI, using knowledge graphs.
Gen AI systems for improved developer productivity - On-call assistants, Agentic AI systems for engineering chatbots.
predicting errors and crashes and prevent them from happening on the app.
Adaptive recommendations in real time based on user interactions along with network and device characteristics.
Personalizing QoE by predicting variations and maintaining consistency in app experience.

Deep LearningTechnical LeadershipNode.jsNatural Language Processing (NLP)Artificial Intelligence (AI)Technical Direction+17

4 roles

Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr

Build and lead a team of engineers focussing on personalizing performance on web and mobile apps through data driven decision making and on-device modeling for performance.

Deep LearningTechnical LeadershipTechnical DirectionPython (Programming Language)ManagementEngineering Management+8

Apprentice Engineering Manager

Jul 2019 – Dec 2019 · 5 mos

Technical LeadershipTechnical DirectionPython (Programming Language)ManagementEngineering ManagementEngineering Leadership+6

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

May 2018 – Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Lead and drive multiple working groups focusing on improving performance of the LinkedIn mobile and web applications and the Edge infrastructure. Bring a data-driven approach to understanding performance and lead the way to personalizing performance for every user interaction on the internet, through Applied ML, Edge computing and deep learning.

Deep LearningTechnical LeadershipCloud ComputingTechnical DirectionPython (Programming Language)Applied Machine Learning+8

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2016 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Cloud ComputingPython (Programming Language)Back-End Web DevelopmentResearch SkillsNeural NetworksComputer Science+2

Qualcomm

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2015 – Jan 2016 · 9 mos

Owned tethered and embedded data drivers and features on Windows for Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets.
Performed requirement gathering, conducted design meetings, feature planning and coordinated with various teams for production code delivery to customers.
Designed, implemented and maintained kernel drivers on data path to deliver packets over wireless networks at maximum throughput using C and C++.
Developed optimized algorithms and implemented advanced data structures to improve code quality to achieve low utilization and high performance.
Mentored new hires and interns to ensure smooth knowledge transfer and increase productivity.
Developed test automation framework using Python, Powershell and XML scripts.
Developed and maintained mobile applications with socket programming in C.

Python (Programming Language)Mobile DevicesResearch SkillsComputer SciencePerformance Tuning