Prashanth Bala
Senior Product Manager at Meta
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPrashanth Bala is a Senior Product Manager and former engineering leader with 12 years of experience building creator and commerce products across Meta and Instagram, currently supporting Measurement Platform at Central Integrity in New York. He blends deep technical hands-on experience—from founding engineering roles and full-stack work to managing teams of 20+—with product and growth instincts that have driven multi-hundred-million dollar revenue gains and rapid product-market fits. His background includes launching Instagram’s first in-app monetization, NFT integrations, gifting/tipping, and turning an ailing Messaging Commerce product into a 28x transaction growth story. Comfortable bootstrapping teams and cross-functional programs, he has a track record of shipping fast in high-regulation and high-integrity spaces while influencing leadership-level strategy. Notably, he moves between product, infrastructure and privacy/integrity tradeoffs, making him effective at shipping novel features that scale responsibly.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma Higher Level: Mathematics Physics Business & Management SL: Chemistry English Spanish, International Baccalaureate Diploma Higher Level: Mathematics Physics Business & Management SL: Chemistry English Spanish at OFS International School, SingaporeBS Computer Science Minoring in Business Administration and Computational Finance, BS Computer Science Minoring in Business Administration and Computational Finance at Carnegie Mellon UniversityEducational Program for the Gifted Youth (EPGY) Quantum Mechanics, Educational Program for the Gifted Youth (EPGY) Quantum Mechanics at Stanford University
English, Hindi, Tamil, Spanish, Sanskrit
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Github contributions (3)
kevincrane/distsys-f13
Sep 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:47 commits in 2 months
WaseemTheDream/Eth-Cash
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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