Prakash Jagatheesan
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Zscaler
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolPrakash Jagatheesan is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over two decades of hands-on experience building complex systems from idea to launch. He brings deep expertise in the ads stack—UI, targeting, backend, tracking and ad quality—and practical machine learning experience applied to Gmail ads quality using logistic regression and TensorFlow. A polyglot engineer fluent in C/C++, Java, and Python, he pairs algorithmic rigor with rapid automation through scripting (shell, Tcl, Perl) and systems tooling. His career spans major engineering roles at Google and contributions to security-conscious cloud-native projects like Tekton Pipelines, where he added status messaging and SPIRE integration. Comfortable coordinating across customers, sales, product and R&D, he excels at translating ambiguous specs into validated, production-ready features. Unusually for an ad-tech ML practitioner, he also has a strong foundation in EDA applications and core CS areas such as compilers and game theory, giving him a broad systems-level perspective.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
ME Computer Science, ME Computer Science at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Bengaluru UniversityBE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at RV College Of Engineering
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Github Skills (8)
tekton10
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
security10
cicd9
devops9
api-design8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tektoncd/pipeline
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
A cloud-native Pipeline resource.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:130 reviews, 2 commits, 16 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Prakash primarily contributed to the implementation of a status message functionality and added support for SPIRE in the Tekton pipeline. This involved modifying core APIs and types related to TaskRuns and Runs to accommodate the new status message field. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating SPIRE with the project by modifying the pod creation process and setting up the necessary environment for SpireControllerAPIClient. These changes show an understanding of the Tekton pipeline architecture and the integration of security features.
containerspipelinetektonresource-managementkubernetes
jagathprakash/pipeline
Oct 2022 - Jun 2023
A cloud-native Pipeline resource.
Contributions:191 pushes, 10 branches in 8 months
containerskubernetespipelinecloud-native
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