Prafulla Patiballa is a Lead Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems for startups and high-growth products, currently at New Relic after a brief staff role at Opendoor. He has a strong track record taking projects from 0→1 and optimizing performance across backend services, with deep hands-on experience in Erlang/ejabberd, Python, Node.js and large-data pipelines such as LiDAR processing into octrees. Past roles include leading chat infrastructure at Snapdeal, steering platform work as Principal Engineer at LoadShare, and CTO-level product delivery for mobile and merchant systems, showing both technical depth and cross-functional ownership. Based in Hyderabad, he blends low-level systems thinking with product-focused execution and an appetite for tackling hard scaling and data-processing problems that most engineers avoid.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Computer Science, B.Tech, Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology
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Prafulla Patiballa - Lead Software Engineer at New Relic