Summary
Ashwin Jayaprakash is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling high-performance platform teams across startups and larger companies, now serving as Director of Engineering in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has a strong track record of turning technical debt into reliable, efficient cloud data platforms that process terabytes per day and schedule millions of multi-cloud tasks, directly contributing to multi-million dollar revenue outcomes. Known for leading 0-to-1 and 1-to-N initiatives, he combines hands-on architecture work with people leadership, producing high-tenure teams and widespread promotions. Ashwin has driven cross-functional programs—like a Kubernetes compliance and threat-detection effort—that increased upsell by 15% and helped win seven- and eight-figure deals. He’s equally comfortable in crisis, having served as an incident manager and trainer for high-severity incidents, and in operationalizing scale post-acquisition to make products cheaper and better for customers. Early career work on low-latency engines and a personal streaming SQL project informed his pragmatic approach to distributed systems and performance optimization.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Karnataka