Summary
Prabhash Rathore is a Distinguished Engineer with 12+ years building large-scale distributed systems across storage, mail, and payments, currently leading Platform-as-a-Service efforts for databases, cache, and object storage at GEICO. He combines deep systems and language expertise—Java, Go, C/C++, Node.js—with a strong foundation in algorithms, concurrency, and both relational and NoSQL databases to design services that operate at multi-exabyte scale. His career includes designing Facebook’s warm storage infrastructure and backend systems for Yahoo Mail and PayPal payments, reflecting a track record of shipping resilient, high-throughput platforms. A pragmatic engineering leader who moves between hands-on development and architecture, he has structured teams, automated CI/CD pipelines, and driven performance and disaster-recovery initiatives. Though primarily focused on production-grade platforms, he’s quietly exploring Rust and contributes code and Q&A publicly via GitHub and Stack Overflow.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Delhi
Noida Public School
MS Software Engineering, MS Software Engineering at BITS Pilani - 2009
English, Hindi