Summary
Prakash Shanbhag is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 10 years of experience building large-scale, secure cloud and payments systems across startups and hyperscale companies. He led Google Cloud’s high-stakes Trusted Partner Cloud initiative for Persistent Disk, bringing data-sovereignty solutions to government-scale deployments, and has held senior roles driving payments, fraud detection, and platform engineering at Hotstar, Grab and Gameskraft. As Co-Founder of SignalsIQ he now focuses on extracting actionable intelligence from unstructured documents, marrying his systems and ML-adjacent experience to real-world decision workflows. Known for scaling teams and revamping monoliths into resilient microservices, he combines hands-on debugging chops from enterprise R&D with product-minded execution at scale. An IIT Kharagpur MTech alum, he brings a pragmatic blend of engineering depth and startup grit to solve operationally complex problems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BE Electronics and communication, BE Electronics and communication at Visvesvaraya Technological University
MTech Telecommunication, MTech Telecommunication at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Kannada, Hindi, Konkani