Summary
Prabhat Putchakayala is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 15 years of experience building and operating very large-scale distributed systems. He currently develops GSLB, Google’s global software load balancer that underpins internal services and Cloud Load Balancing, and previously led an eight-engineer SRE team responsible for global traffic and DNS infrastructure. His background spans low-latency replicated storage (Bigtable-based systems) to application-level networking, giving him deep expertise in scaling, performance tuning, and reliability engineering for critical infrastructure. Known for marrying hands-on systems design with operational rigor, he often tackles both long-lived architectural problems and urgent production incidents.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Cornell University