Summary
Prajwala Prabhakar is an engineering manager with 10+ years building high-performance backend systems for finance and consumer media, currently leading core services at Apple powering App Store, Fitness+, Music, Podcasts, Books and Apple TV+. She combines deep systems and C++/Scala expertise from earlier roles at Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Barclays and Bank of America—where she led scalable equity middle-office platforms and test automation frameworks—with product-facing, cross-functional delivery at a FAANG scale. Known for performance-minded architecture and pragmatic automation, she has repeatedly optimized memory and latency in mission-critical systems and introduced readable, regex/DSL-driven test tooling for legacy platforms. Based in Singapore, she blends rigorous engineering discipline with a track record of shipping complex, heavily integrated backend features to global customers. An engineer who moves comfortably between low-level optimization and large distributed service design, she thrives on turning challenging domain requirements into reliable production systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University