Prasad Krishnan
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPrasad Krishnan is a Principal Software Engineering Manager with 13+ years building and operating large-scale storage and cloud security platforms, now leading teams at Microsoft after a decade of infrastructure work at Flipkart. He has deep hands-on experience with Ceph-based object storage, private-to-public cloud migrations, and designing for fault tolerance, high availability and rapid scale during peak events. At Flipkart he owned authentication, IAM, key management and access controls, marrying product roadmaps with pragmatic engineering to meet stringent production hygiene and observability goals. His background in filesystem and RAS work at EMC/Isilon and IBM gives him a rare blend of low-level systems expertise and cloud-native operational rigor. Known for solving high-complexity problems by customizing solutions to organizational constraints, he focuses on cost-effective scaling and seamless customer experience during migrations. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs technical leadership with a track record of driving cross-functional execution in hybrid cloud environments.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at University of MadrasAlpha Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Github Skills (55)
infiniband10
glusterfs10
kubernetes10
fat10
rdma10
nfs10
fuse10
openebs10
storage10
blob-storage10
hdfs10
smb10
data-exchange10
nvme10
compatibility10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
prasakri/ceph
Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Contributions:20 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
flysystemfile-storageazure-blob-storagecephbackblaze
flipkart-incubator/homebrew-taps
May 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
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