Prashant Patel
Staff SWE Lead at Pinterest
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPrashant Patel is a Staff SWE Lead with 11 years of experience architecting capacity and efficiency solutions for large-scale infrastructure across Pinterest, AWS, Meta, Hulu, and Tintri. He specializes in compute and storage capacity management for batch, online, and ML workloads, combining observability, automation, and product-minded tooling to drive measurable utilization gains. His work includes building capacity estimation and zero-downtime scaling features that cut provisioning times from hours to minutes and tools that empower teams to understand and act on capacity signals. A pragmatic technical leader, he blends full-stack engineering (from Python and backend services to React UIs and load-testing) with cross-functional program delivery and has a track record of turning research and prototypes into productionized, patented systems. Based in Menlo Park, he volunteers with Pratam Foundation, reflecting an interest in applying technical skills beyond the datacenter.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Syracuse UniversityBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavans Sardar Patel Institute of Technology Munshi Nagar Andheri Mumbai
Github Skills (20)
graph8
sms7
terraform7
aws7
react6
visualization6
vonage6
devops5
terraform-module5
infrastructure-as-code5
declarative5
api5
infrastructure5
sms-gateway5
nodejs4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ppatel03/Templated
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:565 pushes in 1 year 10 months
ppatel03/CrackingCodingInterview
Feb 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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