Prabhakar Mishra
Co-Founder And CTO at CyberDesk
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPrabhakar Mishra is a Berlin-based Co-Founder and CTO with 14+ years in software engineering, cloud, security, and leadership, and eight years in senior operational roles driving product and platform delivery. He has scaled teams and processes at fintech Scalable Capital—moving from engineer to Chief of Staff and IT manager—where he led cross-functional stakeholder management, vendor selection, and strategic initiatives alongside C-level executives. At CyberDesk he blends hands-on engineering with executive decision-making to build secure, cloud-native systems and operationalize tooling across organizations. A pragmatic DevOps contributor, he has updated core Prometheus/Kubernetes dependencies and testing workflows in the widely used kube-state-metrics project, showing attention to both reliability and developer experience. His background spans investment banking and analytics (Morgan Stanley, Fractal) through to consultancy, giving him a rare mix of enterprise rigor and startup speed. He pairs technical depth with contract negotiation, hiring process optimization, and a focus on measurable business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) Information Technology, Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) Information Technology at University of Mumbai
Github Skills (8)
kubernetes10
go10
prometheus10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
testing9
docker9
cicd8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kube-state-metrics
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 27 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Prabhakar primarily contributed to updating dependencies related to the Prometheus monitoring stack, a core component of the project. They updated the golang version used by the project. The user also made changes to the e2e testing scripts, including adjusting minikube driver configurations and bumping the Kubernetes version used in tests. Finally, the user upgraded various Kubernetes dependencies and made adjustments to accommodate those changes.
prometheus-exporteragentkubernetes-exporterobservabilityexpose
mishra-prabhakar/kube-state-metrics
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
Contributions:12 pushes, 7 branches in 4 months
agentobservabilityexposerecallkubernetes
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