Ashwin Jayaprakash
Director Of Engineering at Fortinet
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAshwin 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.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (127)
sql-query10
sql10
vault10
database10
java10
asynchronous10
relational9
pattern9
big-data9
presto9
service-discovery9
cli9
hadoop9
libgit29
ripgrep9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AshwinJay/jarasandha
Jan 2018 - Feb 2025
Jarasandha is a small Java library to help build an archive of records
Contributions:1 release, 19 PRs, 125 pushes in 7 years 2 months
recordsindexjava-libraryarchivecompress
AshwinJay/StreamCruncher
Jul 2013 - Jun 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 7 years
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