Summary
Prabhash Rathore is a Distinguished Engineer with over a decade of experience building large-scale distributed systems across storage, mail, and payments domains. Based in Menlo Park, he combines hands-on software craftsmanship with architectural leadership, recently leading Platform as a Service for databases, cache, and object storage at GEICO Tech. Earlier, he contributed to multi-exabyte scale storage at Facebook and led payments-platform initiatives at PayPal, delivering robust infrastructure for complex financial workflows. His tech stack spans Java, Golang, C++, and JavaScript, with deep expertise in data structures, algorithms, and both relational and non-relational databases, complemented by a strong QA-focused, Agile/XP mindset. He holds an MS in Software Engineering from BITS Pilani and has a track record of guiding teams through large-scale migrations, performance tuning, and platform modernization. An active technologist with a penchant for concurrency, event-driven systems, and infrastructure frameworks, he also maintains a presence in open source through GitHub.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Delhi
Noida Public School
MS, Software Engineering, MS, Software Engineering at BITS Pilani - 2009
English, Hindi