Prashanth Jonnalagadda

Prashanth Jonnalagadda has a diverse work experience in various roles and companies. Prashanth started their career at IBM Software Labs as a Software Development Engineer, working on the development and service of TXSeries, an IBM middleware product. In 2007, they joined Yahoo! as a Principal Technical Yahoo! and Tech Lead, where they were responsible for the architecture, design, and development of a Real-Time Bidding (RTB) system for the Right Media Exchange.

In 2012, Prashanth moved to AdMobius as a Technologist, where they built large-scale distributed systems from scratch and defined the technology stack, software engineering processes, and hiring. Prashanth also played a significant role in defining the architecture and developing a low-latency mobile data management RESTful web service.

Prashanth then joined Krux Digital, Inc. in 2013 as a Software Architect/Engineering Manager, where they worked until 2016. Prashanth joined Salesforce in the same year, initially as a Director of Software Engineering and later as a Senior Director of Software Engineering. In these roles, they demonstrated strong leadership skills and a belief in leading by example.

Most recently, Prashanth has become the Head of Engineering at Habu since December 2019.

Prashanth Jonnalagadda holds a Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. Prior to that, Prashanth completed their Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Science at B. M. S. College of Engineering. In addition to their formal education, Prashanth has obtained a certification in Neural Networks and Deep learning from deeplearning.ai.