Bishal Prasad
Director Of Engineering at Eightfold
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolBishal Prasad is a seasoned engineering leader with nine years in senior management and a 20+-year software background driving scalable, multi-tenant SaaS and cloud-native platforms. Currently Director of Engineering, he has built high-performance, self-driving teams that deliver DevOps and deployment tooling enabling developers worldwide to iterate, validate and ship rapidly. His hands-on roots include contributing to prominent open-source projects such as Azure Pipelines tasks and Azure Functions UX, where he improved pipeline and deployment reliability. Bishal blends backend-to-frontend technical depth with operational excellence to create engaging engineering cultures that meet strict customer SLAs. He is known for translating complex distributed-systems challenges into simple user-focused products and for speeding developer workflows behind the scenes. Based in Hyderabad and educated at IIT Kharagpur, he pairs deep execution experience with a knack for pragmatic product-driven engineering.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Degree Computer Science & Engg, Dual Degree Computer Science & Engg at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Github Skills (28)
azure-devops-server10
typescript10
azure-functions10
cicd10
azure-devops10
typescript-types10
azure-pipelines10
typescripts10
javascript9
json9
aac9
infrastructure-as-code9
apidoc8
api8
restful-api7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Feb 2017 - Apr 2022
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:96 reviews, 452 commits, 332 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Bishal made several commits focused on developing and modifying tasks within the Azure Pipelines ecosystem, specifically for the `azure-pipelines-tasks` repository. These commits included enhancements to the Packer build task, involving adding logging, constants, and template variable providers. The user's changes touched upon multiple files including the core task logic, template management and utility modules, implying a broad understanding of the task's internal workings and configuration. The modifications suggest a focus on extending the functionality and improving the usability of the tasks for building and deploying infrastructure images.
azure-pipelines
Azure/azure-functions-ux
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Azure Functions UX
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Bishal primarily contributed to the deployment center functionality within the Azure Functions UX repository. Their work involved fixing bugs, specifically related to permission validation and agent queue checks within the deployment center setup. They implemented code changes to validate permissions for Azure DevOps and local git, as well as modifying validation messages, and integrating with Azure DevOps services to enable proper token fetching and pipeline feature checks. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the reliability and functionality of the deployment process.
azure-functionsuser-experience
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