Prasad Deshpande
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPrasad Deshpande is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with over 20 years of experience and eight years in senior engineering leadership roles driving data management, analytics and platform initiatives. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science (database systems/OLAP) and a track record of translating research into products—leading teams at IBM Research, co-founding startups (Mesh Dynamics, Alpha Analyst), and building systems adopted by large organizations and acquired by Google. At Mesh Dynamics he led the engineering effort from concept to launch for an API observability and low-code testing product that was later open-sourced after acquisition, and at Google he rapidly shipped B2B commerce alpha and beta releases as a senior engineering leader. Currently at Databricks, he focuses on strategy, system design and technical leadership in data management R&D. Colleagues value his blend of deep database research roots, product-first engineering, and experience scaling teams across startups and enterprise research labs. He’s equally comfortable inventing new tech and mentoring teams to operationalize it into robust, customer-facing systems.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Sciences, Database Systems, OLAP, Ph.D., Computer Sciences, Database Systems, OLAP at University of Wisconsin-MadisonIndian Institute of Technology BombayProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
qubole/tuning-paper
Aug 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:8 commits in 6 months
mesh-dynamics/api-studio
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:43 commits in 3 months
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