Prabhat Jha
Head Of Engineering, NoSQL Database
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPrabhat 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 AustinB.S Computer Science Mathematics, B.S Computer Science Mathematics at Fairmont State University
English, Nepali, Hindi, Maithili, Bhojpuri
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (119)
messaging10
swagger10
queuing10
rest-api10
swagger-node10
streaming10
swagger-ui10
rest10
cql10
messaging-system10
cassandra10
pulsar10
pubsub10
open-source10
swagger-editor10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
prabhatjha/my-mac-setup
Jun 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 years 2 months
prabhatjha/prabhatjha.github.io
Aug 2019 - Feb 2021
Personal blog
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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