Venkatesh Prabhu
Member Of Technical Staff at PayPal
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVenkatesh Prabhu is a seasoned engineering leader with ~12 years of experience building and operating large-scale fintech platforms, currently serving as Tech Lead at PayPal driving a major re-architecture of the MUMA merchant platform. He blends SRE roots with cross-functional product and program experience from PayPal’s competitive Technology Leadership Program, where he led migrations, automation impacting ~2,000 engineers, and delivered a high-visibility merchant promotions launch as a de facto Engineering Manager. Venkatesh is hands-on across backend and frontend rewrites, RBAC design, and observability, and has built an LLM-based email fraud detector achieving 99% accuracy while cutting team bug rates by ~75%. He’s a delivery-focused leader who routinely owns architecture, sprint planning, stakeholder alignment and partner integrations, and has been recognised with 20+ internal awards in the past year. Notably, he has driven $200K in annualized savings through payment product improvements and founded an internal engineering guild to raise standards and cross-team collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Pre university college Physics Chemistry Mathematics Computer Science, Pre university college Physics Chemistry Mathematics Computer Science at Bhandarkar's Arts and Science college, KundapurBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at BMS Institute of Technology and Management
English, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Konkani
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Github Skills (43)
git-mirror10
gecko9
profile-picture9
firefox9
mozilla9
mercurial9
crud8
leaderboard8
bootstrap8
git7
crud-application7
slack-api7
api7
django7
addon6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
venkateshprabhu2/gitsession
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:24 reviews, 29 commits, 29 PRs in 1 month
venkateshprabhu2/sentence-collector
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Tool to collect and review sentences for Common Voice
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 months
nlpcollectsentencesreviewvoice
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