Prabhakar Sithanandam
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPrabhakar Sithanandam is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with over 7 years of industry experience building large-scale cloud services and distributed systems. He progressed through multiple engineering levels at Amazon and AWS, culminating in a Principal Engineer role before joining Databricks, demonstrating sustained impact across high-scale infrastructure teams. Comfortable with both hands-on coding and technical leadership, he has a proven track record of shipping production services at Amazon’s pace and complexity. His background from NIT Karnataka and early engineering roles at IBM and startups give him a mix of rigorous fundamentals and pragmatic product focus. Notably, his career shows rapid advancement within cloud platforms, indicating strong system-design instincts and the ability to drive cross-team initiatives. He brings a steady blend of architectural rigor, operational experience, and mentoring to fast-moving engineering orgs.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, HSC at V.O.C.G.H.S.S.SSLC, SSLC at Fatima H.S.S.B.Tech, Information Technology, B.Tech, Information Technology at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Github Skills (35)
lucene10
meilisearch10
search-engine10
opensearch10
authentication10
information-retrieval10
opensearch-dashboards10
solr10
analytics10
java10
restful10
indices10
role-based10
masking10
audit-logging10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
backslasht/OpenSearch
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Contributions:46 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 7 months
backslasht/opensearch-benchmark
Feb 2023 - Jul 2024
OpenSearch Benchmark - a community driven, open source project to run performance tests for OpenSearch
Contributions:7 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 4 months
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