Prashant Jha is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Karnataka with over a decade of progressive software and leadership experience, currently leading engineering teams at Cisco. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—evidenced by contributions to the Apache BookKeeper project where he migrated CI/CD to Gradle and improved testing and code-quality tooling—with a track record of building and scaling teams and retail systems at Lenskart. Known for juggling priorities to maximize delivery value, he has moved between individual contributor and managerial roles across startups and enterprises, bringing practical operational rigor to engineering organizations. His background spans system design, testing infrastructure, and deployment automation, allowing him to bridge product needs and execution effectively. Colleagues would describe him as a techie at heart who seeks interesting problems and drives measurable improvements in reliability and developer productivity.
5 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Apache BookKeeper - a scalable, fault tolerant and low latency storage service optimized for append-only workloads
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:84 reviews, 26 commits, 42 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Prashant primarily contributed to the Apache BookKeeper project by implementing fixes, integrating the build process with Gradle, and setting up infrastructure for testing and deployments. They addressed test-related issues and migrated the CI/CD process to Gradle, streamlining the build and test workflows. In addition, they integrated the Spotbugs plugin with Gradle to improve code quality. Furthermore, the user made changes related to running integration tests and building microbenchmarks using Gradle, and refactored the testing structure.
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 140 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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Prashant Jha - Senior Engineering Manager at Cisco