Guna Prasaad
Staff Product Manager at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolGuna Prasaad is a Staff Product Manager and former Staff Software Engineer based in Menlo Park with 13 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and payments products. He transitioned from engineering to product leadership at Meta and WhatsApp, where he led engineering for WhatsApp Payments in India and now shapes product strategy across large-scale platforms. His hands-on background includes significant open-source contributions to LogDevice (adding strict FIFO streaming support and performance-focused refactors) and to Microsoft’s FASTER project (improving checkpointing and recovery), reflecting deep expertise in logs, storage, and recovery semantics. Known for bridging research-grade systems work with product outcomes, he combines academic rigor from UW and IIT Bombay with production experience at Meta, Google, and Microsoft. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex distributed-systems trade-offs into practical, deployable product features that unlock new user and business opportunities.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of WashingtonBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at IIT Bombay
English, Tamil, Hindi
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Github Skills (15)
stream-processing10
communication-protocol10
protocols10
distributed-systems10
c-language10
key-value-store10
persistent10
concurrent10
csharp10
cprogramming-language10
concurrency10
dotnet-core10
logging9
indexing8
eclipse6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/LogDevice
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
Distributed storage for sequential data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Guna made several significant contributions to the `logdevice` repository, focusing on optimizing and refactoring core components. Their work involved switching to F14 maps for improved performance in the `EventLogRebuildingSet` and updating the `STORE_Message` structure to handle stream-related information. They also addressed protocol compatibility issues and enhanced the APPEND message header by adding stream-related information, including stream writer ID and sequence number for improved stream handling. The user's work demonstrates a focus on performance improvements and adding new features to support stream appends.
distributed-storagedatabasestoragesequentialsequential-data
microsoft/FASTER
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Fast persistent recoverable log and key-value store + cache, in C# and C++.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 10 PRs, 18 pushes in 10 days
Contributions summary:Guna primarily focused on modifying and enhancing the FASTER (Fast persistent recoverable log and key-value store + cache) system. Their contributions included improvements to the checkpointing and recovery mechanisms, as well as incorporating relevant debug information. The user made modifications across several files, with the majority of the changes focusing on the core functionality and recovery procedures of FASTER. They also added a test for the recovery-continue-recover pipeline.
recoverableoperationpersistent-storageindexinglogging
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