Summary
Prakash A is a product leader and advisory board member with nearly two decades of experience designing and shipping data- and AI-driven products for enterprises and startups, currently based in San Jose. He has led portfolios exceeding $100M ARR and launched multiple ML-powered offerings used by customers such as Meta, Google, TikTok, NBA and major financial institutions, earning industry awards for HR Tech and product leadership. Prakash blends strategy, execution and technical depth—comfortable with SQL/NoSQL, ETL, ML model tradeoffs, RAG/LLMs and data architecture—while coaching teams and partnering with C-level stakeholders. His background spans Cisco, IBM, Apple, Workday and high-growth startups, giving him rare fluency across Sales, HR, Finance and Product that informs empathetic, behavior-driven design. He enjoys treating product work as both art and science, turning data insights into concise, emotionally resonant user experiences. An unexpected thread: he started wanting to be a scientist/inventor, and still builds products that satisfy that curiosity by marrying experimentation with measurable business impact.
9 years of coding experience