Summary
Prabhat Jha is a seasoned engineering executive with 15+ years building large-scale distributed data and AI systems, currently leading NoSQL database and cloud platform engineering for IBM/DataStax in the Bay Area. He has a track record of founding and scaling startups (InstaOps, co-founder; Eejot founder for computer literacy in Nepal) and driving product pivots that led to acquisitions at Wootric and Apigee. His expertise spans Cassandra-powered DBaaS, serverless/vector search, streaming (Pulsar), developer experience tooling, and Kubernetes-based multi-cloud platforms. Comfortable toggling between hands-on technical delivery and strategic leadership, he has repeatedly shipped developer-facing APIs, SDKs and observability/billing control planes for global customers. Originally from Nepal and trained in math and CS at UT Austin, he blends rigorous academic foundation with entrepreneurial grit and a long history of open-source and enterprise contributions.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.A Mathematics & Computer Science, M.A Mathematics & Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
B.S Computer Science Mathematics, B.S Computer Science Mathematics at Fairmont State University
English, Nepali, Hindi, Maithili, Bhojpuri