Nikhil Prabhakar
Engineering Manager at Zalando
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNikhil Prabhakar is an engineering leader with 15 years’ experience building and scaling teams and systems across startups and global platforms, currently leading partner management and onboarding automation at Zalando in Berlin. He has repeatedly grown engineering orgs—from building a high-performance team from scratch at Zalando to scaling Angel Studios from 10 to 50+ engineers and creating seven engineering manager roles. Comfortable balancing technical depth and people strategy, he has driven large infra migrations, CI/CD and monitoring platforms, and data and authentication systems across AWS, Kubernetes, Snowflake and more. Known for instituting documentation culture, formal hiring and promotion frameworks, and cross-team guilds, he combines hands-on architecture work with mentorship and performance management. A pragmatic problem-solver, he has delivered measurable outcomes such as a 30% AWS cost reduction through region migration and tailored infra deployments for key customers. Based in Berlin, he brings a blend of product-focused engineering and operational rigor informed by long experience in analytics, backend systems and platform engineering.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
AISSCE (10 + 2), CBSE, Science, AISSCE (10 + 2), CBSE, Science at Delhi Public School, Bokaro Steel City.Saraswati Vidya Mandir, MungerBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics at Shivaji University
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Github Skills (18)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nipra/rinse
Mar 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
nipra/Jafun
Jun 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:2 commits in 8 months
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