Prashanth Kannan
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPrashanth Kannan is a product-minded Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of full-stack experience, currently building developer-facing systems at GitHub from Old Toronto. He brings a strong foundation from a B.E. in Computer Science (BITS Pilani) and an M.S. from Georgia Tech, paired with early production experience at Amazon where he cut his teeth on large-scale services. At GitHub since 2020, he blends product focus with engineering rigor to ship features that serve millions of developers, drawing on prior roles in both SDE and SDET capacities. Known for bridging front-end and back-end concerns, he favors pragmatic solutions that improve developer workflows and platform reliability. Having roots in research and internships across HP and national labs, he retains a curiosity for systems-level problems and measurable impact. Colleagues describe him as a steady, delivery-oriented engineer who balances technical depth with an eye for product experience.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering (Honors), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (Honors), Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology and Science
English, Tamil, Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (47)
github-issues10
github10
slack-integration10
github-app10
azure-pipelines10
conversations10
react10
ui-components9
openai-whisper9
microsoft9
react-components9
javascript9
react-component-library9
web-components9
streaming-api9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
prashkan/TestRepo
Jun 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
dsp-testing/piznacs
Feb 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 84 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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