Prasanna Sankar

Co-Founder

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India13 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-Founder of a $10B valued company.
  • Ranked #1 in India at TopCoder during college.
  • 2x Google Code Jam world finalist.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Social Networking expert with a strong technical foundation.

Contact

prasanna@0xppl.comLinkedIn

About

Co-Founder of Rippling.com, currently valued at $10B; I used to do a lot of programming contests: I was ranked #1 in India at TopCoder while at college. 2x Google Code Jam world finalist. 2x ACM ICPC world finalist.

Experience

13 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

0xppl

Founder

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Follow your friend's on-chain activities! 0xPPL.com is a decentralized social network for the crypto natives.

Rippling

Co-Founder and CTO

May 2016 – Jul 2020 · 4 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Zenefits

Director of Engineering

Jan 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • First engineer on Zenefits Payroll: http://www.businessinsider.com/zenefits-launches-a-free-payroll-service-2015-11 -- Rapid iteration and continually launching in a field where things don't move that fast. The fastest growing team at Zenefits -- one of the fastest growing companies in the world.

Likealittle

Co-Founder and CTO

Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Likealittle was a campus social network, that grew from 0 to 20M page views in 6 weeks. In 6 months, almost 20% of US campus students were users. It turned out to be a fad and the startup failed.
  • Raised $7M from A16Z, Ashton Kutcher, Mark Pincus, Yuri Milner etc. At one point Google and FB made acquisition offers.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LikeALittle

Microsoft

Software Developer

Jun 2008 – Oct 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area

  • Sped up the bing crawler by 3.2X; Wrote a distributed disk-cache that currently runs on several thousand machines.

Google

Intern

Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 · 0 mo

Education

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

B.Tech — Computer Science

Jan 2004 – Jan 2008

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