Raghavendra Prabhu Email & Phone Number

Saratoga, Ca, Us

Saratoga, Ca, Us

Menlo Park, California, Us

I have invested in several startups either directly as angel or via SPV. I am also an LP in funds like AIX Ventures, Data Tech Fund, Primeset and SpecializedTypes.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Advisor to leadership team. In the last 3 months, worked in technical capacity on a project at the intersection of language models and robotics, laying the seeds for a future strategic direction.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

I led the core technical teams at Covariant including AI research, software engineering and hardware engineering across US and China. During my tenure, the teams grew from ~30 to close to 100. In this time, we built:1. The Covariant Brain, a set of foundational AI models to power universal robotics capabilities spanning areas like computer vision and motion planning. The platform was used both for first party as well as third party robotics applications through partners like KNAPP. 2. A software platform to rapidly and robustly build robotics applications to solve logistics use cases like induction, sorting (putwall) and kitting. 3. Delivered robotics solutions for our logistics customers, including leading players like Radial and Otto, to meet materials handling workflow needs in warehouses across US and Europe.Most of all, we built an amazing team of leading AI research scientists, world class software engineers and hardware design and manufacturing engineers to ship these complex engineering products.

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Led Thumbtack's technical functions including engineering, data science, business applications and IT. Grew the team to close to 200 at peak. Worked closely with the CEO and others in senior leadership to shape and execute the company's product and business strategy.Prior to being CTO, for the first couple of years I was Engineering DIrector leading the growth and consumer teams. In this role, I more than quadrupled the team, oversaw a complete overhaul of the consumer experience with AI-powered search technology called Instant Results and helped shape the demand growth strategy across SEO, digital paid marketing and organic channels.

San Francisco, California, Us

I ran Pinterest's infrastructure engineering team, which built and owned Pinterest's core backend infrastructure including storage systems, caching, service framework and core business logic. We were also responsible for the scalability and long term direction of Pinterest's overall software architecture and building backend services that enabled product teams to move fast and ship awesome features.Here is a glimpse into some of the team's work: https://www.pinterest.com/omrvp/pinterest-infrastructure/

San Francisco, Ca, Us

SENIOR STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER, DATA SERVICES [Sep 2011 - Apr 2013]Was Tech Lead for the Data Services team, which owned and operated Twitter's most critical storage systems, including the user store, tweet store, social graph store and timeline store. Oversaw orders of magnitude growth in both data size and request throughput. My role was to be the technical point of contact for the team, serve as operational owner, drive technical direction, review code and designs and track progress of projects, while also continuing to write code when possible. As a senior engineer in the company, I also participated in cross-company technical initiatives like the Twitter Architecture Group, helped shepherd projects through the design review process and vet designs for projects across Twitter Engineering.STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER, SEARCH [Nov 2010 - Aug 2011]Was tech lead and main contributor for SpiderDuck, a fast realtime URL fetcher service used to retrieve the content of all URLs shared in tweets within seconds after posting. It powered major Twitter initiatives like #Discover, Twitter Cards and Universal Search. Contributed towards the design and implementation of Search Blender, a workflow framework and aggregator service and Search Facets, a project to surface media results in Twitter Search. Was an early adopter and minor contributor to Finagle, Twitter's RPC framework, as well as other Twitter open source projects like Twitter Commons and Util. Relevant blog posts:Spiderduck: http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/11/spiderduck-twitters-real-time-url.htmlSearch Blender: http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/04/twitter-search-is-now-3x-faster_1656.htmlSearch Facets: http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/05/engineering-behind-twitters-new-search.htmlFinagle: http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/08/finagle-protocol-agnostic-rpc-system.html

Mountain View, Ca, Us

SOFTWARE ENGINEER 3 / SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, SEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE Worked on Google's main web crawler. Projects included:* Crawl scheduling changes to support the new incremental indexing system called Caffeine (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html). This contribution was recognized with a Google Operating Committee award in June 2010.* Crawl sub-system to schedule DNS lookups at a large scale. This helped get regular DNS data for crawl bucketing, reduced latency of the crawl and significantly reduced burstiness of external nameserver traffic.* Analysis pipelines to detect and handle crawl pathologies like wildcard DNS and large scale parked domains. Automated analysis of the crawl’s URL discovery to learn path patterns that are useful or useless to Google web search, so as to adjust crawl priorities.* Changes to the crawl system to be able to run Google’s mobile crawls within the main crawl system, thus freeing up 3 engineers from having to maintain a separate mobile crawl.

Redmond, Washington, Us

SOFTWARE DESIGN ENGINEER 2, BING SEARCH [Nov 2005 - Feb 2007]Was the lead developer for the Search Macros feature and had end to end responsibility for it, with a focus on the backend store and protocols. Designed and implemented support in the search backend to collect, index, and rank non-web content. Also helped design a large scale distributed database used to store web documents in the search indexing system.SOFTWARE DESIGN ENGINEER, VISUAL STUDIO [Jul 2002 - Oct 2005]Owned and developed a number of Visual Studio infrastructure components like code generation and parsing, designer hosting, resource management and localization support. Designed and implemented the settings storage model and client configuration API in .NET Framework 2.0. Was active in the Microsoft developer community through technical blogging, participation in dev labs and regular posting on forums. In particular, my blog on MSDN (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rprabhu/) at one point ranked in the top 20 in page views out of ~2000 MSDN blogs. I also appeared in an MSDN Channel 9 video (http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/TheChannel9Team/Raghavendra-Prabhu-Briefly-Inside-the-Windows-Forms-Designer).