Prashanth Pai
Principal Engineer at CodeRabbit
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPrashanth Pai is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native microservices and distributed systems, currently leading AI-driven code review efforts. He has designed and operated high-scale messaging and revenue-intelligence platforms, shipping features from AI chatbots to subscription and notification subsystems. A longtime contributor to core open-source storage projects such as OpenStack Swift and GlusterFS, he’s improved atomic object operations and implemented on-the-wire compression—work that underpins reliable object and file storage at scale. At Unacademy he led platform engineering and cost-optimization initiatives that cut AWS managed-service spend by roughly 55%, demonstrating a balance of architecture and pragmatic operational impact. Comfortable across backend stacks and CI/deployment gating, he combines deep systems-level experience with product-focused delivery. Based in Bengaluru, he brings an engineer-first leadership style and a history of quietly improving critical infrastructure components that many users rely on.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Information Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Information Science and Engineering at PES UniversityPhysics Chemistry Mathematics Computer Science, Physics Chemistry Mathematics Computer Science at Saint Mary's Syrian Pre-University College
Konkani, Kannada, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (24)
glusterfs10
filesystem10
python10
back-end-development10
distributed-systems10
object-storage10
c-programming10
c1110
c1710
api-design9
restful-api9
posixct9
api-rest9
apidoc9
zlib9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gluster/glusterfs
Mar 2012 - Oct 2018
Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 commits, 42 comments in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Prashanth primarily focused on enhancing the GlusterFS codebase by implementing features, fixing bugs, and improving existing functionalities. Their contributions include the development of a compression/decompression translator using the Zlib library, introducing a function to clear iobrefs, and validating network compression options. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to the POSIX layer, specifically improving d_type handling in readdirp() calls and fixing an unlink issue. They also made several improvements to API and glusterd, and updated the test suite.
erasure-codingstoragepersistent-storagedistributed-storagefuse-filesystem
openstack/swift
Sep 2013 - Apr 2015
OpenStack Storage (Swift). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Prashanth Pai primarily contributed to the core functionality of the OpenStack Swift project, focusing on improving and maintaining its backend components. His work involved adding new features, such as HTTP status codes, and enhancing existing ones, like configuring the expiring objects account name. He also addressed bugs related to unit tests and made improvements to the codebase to optimize object storage operations, like making file creation more atomic. Furthermore, he contributed to documentation updates.
opendevswiftopenstackstoragemacos
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