Summary
Prantik Bhattacharyya is a software engineering manager with 11+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems for Ads, Search, and Data products in high-growth startups. Currently leading engineering at Monte Carlo, he combines hands-on expertise in Java/Scala/Python and streaming/batch ecosystems (Kafka, Flink, Spark, Airflow, Druid) with cloud-first experience on GCP and AWS. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science with 700+ citations in social network research, bringing rigorous research thinking to production engineering and cross-functional program execution. Known for hiring and developing teams, he emphasizes a data-driven, context-led leadership style that fosters ownership and measurable outcomes. Based in Seattle, he’s equally comfortable architecting backend data pipelines as he is translating complex requirements into scalable delivery plans.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of California, Davis
B. Engg., Computer Science, B. Engg., Computer Science at Jadavpur University