Summary
Prajna Kandarpa is a Chief Architect and builder of data and GenAI platforms with nine years of cross-continental experience spanning startups and enterprise product engineering. He has been an early employee or founder at multiple startups and has led engineering, SRE and product teams to deliver cloud-native, on-premise and hybrid ML-driven systems for telecom and enterprise customers across LATAM, Africa and the Middle East. Prajna blends hands-on full-stack development (NodeJS, Python, frontend) with deep infrastructure expertise in Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP and DevOps pipelines to turn ML research into scalable products. He routinely hires and mentors engineering teams, maps product roadmaps to delivery timelines, and has a proven track record shipping customer-facing AI/analytics platforms at scale. Based in Hyderabad with a Mechatronics degree from the University of Waterloo, he brings a practical systems mindset—shaped by early work on real-time embedded and diagnostic systems—to modern data and AI platform design.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Sciences Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Sciences Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Telugu, Hindi, French