Prem Santosh
Engineering Manager at Lyft
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPrem Santosh is an engineering manager based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building distributed data compute systems and back-end services across companies like Lyft, Yelp, Cerner, and Ericsson. He leads geographically distributed teams at Lyft, focusing on scalable data compute platforms that power production analytics and real-time processing. His background spans embedded systems research and large-scale cloud back ends, giving him a practical appreciation for low-level performance and production reliability. A former researcher on body sensor networks and a hands-on engineer early in his career, he brings both academic rigor and operational discipline to systems design. Outside work he’s an avid skier and foodie, a combination that hints at a preference for high-adrenaline problem solving and adventurous team cultures.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, English
Github Skills (25)
avro10
python10
dotnet10
kubernetes-operator10
perl10
java10
csharp10
scala9
ruby9
data-serialization9
sql9
php9
big-data8
apache-flink8
apache-beam6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
premsantosh/avro
Mar 2016 - Nov 2018
Mirror of Apache Avro
Contributions:7 PRs, 31 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 8 months
avrojavaapache-avroapache
premsantosh/premsantosh.github.io
Apr 2015 - Jun 2026
Contributions:20 PRs, 34 pushes, 13 branches in 11 years 3 months
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