Prasanna Natarajan
Staff Software Engineer at Lookout
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPrasanna Natarajan is a Staff Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 11 years of professional experience and 15 years of overall software craftsmanship, specializing in Ruby on Rails and more recently Golang. He designs and operates cloud-scale backend services, owning architecture, deployment, and the glue tooling—sql, shell, AWS, ops and devops—that make production systems reliable. Known for clear, over-communication and mentorship, he has led remote teams, driven delivery for high-traffic products, and mentored engineers across client engagements. In the last year he accelerated his output by integrating AI tooling into his workflow, using paid Claude access to prototype and ship automation and productivity tools. He maintains a technical blog and balances coding with copywriting, SEO and calisthenics, signaling curiosity beyond pure engineering. Colleagues praise his clean, well-documented code and pragmatic approach to turning complex requirements into maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Engineering, Computer Science, 71%, Bachelor of Computer Science Engineering, Computer Science, 71% at Mepco Schlenk Engineering College, Sivakasi
English, Tamil
Stackoverflow
762reputation
56kreached
13answers
9questions
Github Skills (46)
markdown10
rails10
ruby10
html10
liquid10
rvm9
mvc9
blog-engine9
static-site9
site-generator9
ruby-on-rails9
jekyll9
mruby9
activerecord9
swift8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
npras/kindle_pras
Jan 2017 - Jul 2019
script to parse and extract book notes from my Kindle's "My Clippings.txt"
Contributions:10 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
txtnotesclippings-txtkindlebook-notes
npras/npras.in.sites
Jun 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:177 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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