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Prabhu Asokan

San Jose,CA

Summary

Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience in software engineering. Demonstrated expertise in building cloud-native applications, high-performance distributed systems, machine learning, and innovative product designs. Proven track record in leading impactful business initiatives with a long-term vision and strategy.

Work History

Nextdoor [2024-Current]

Staff Engineer, Growth Org
  • Spearheading cross-functional experimentation to enhance notification quality across key dimensions—volume, negativity, and locality—showcasing improvements in retention and satisfaction through data-driven iterations and user-focused optimizations.
  • Drove resilience/operational improvements to Nextdoor’s notifications platform, serving 300-400M daily notifications, transforming the pipeline into a more reliable and maintainable system by addressing fault tolerance with retry & rate-limiter policies, critical refactors, brownout knobs, and enhanced deployment strategy with canary rollout and simulation capabilities, resulting overall in measurable reliability gains & better team productivity.

Lyft [2019 - 2024]

Technical Lead, Mapping Org
  • Led Lyft’s Optimal Routing product/engineering strategy by defining roadmap & business metrics, collaborating with science/engineering/business stakeholders and delivering products on time in high quality
  • Designed & implemented critical parts of the backend infrastructure powering Lyft’s alternate-route recommendation models, realtime-traffic annotation & ETA-predictions with machine learning. Achieved ~12c/ride PMM efficiency translating to ~6.2M/yr financial impact (between 2022-2023)
  • Architected a Large-Scale Offline Routing Experimentation system that cost-effectively evaluates algorithms/experiments on millions of real-world rides in a few hours with Distributed Compute leveraging Spark

Bloomberg [2017 - 2019]

Software Engineer, Portfolio & Risk Analytics
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  • Designed and implemented highly scalable & fault-tolerant services powering the Bloomberg Terminal handling capabilities like role-based access control, high-volume metadata serving & real-time monitoring

Qualcomm [2013 - 2016]

Software Engineer, Modem Software Performance
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  • Worked on Real-Time OS performance optimizations on the Qualcomm's Snapdragon mobile chip that powered the LTE protocol

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
2013

Electronics and Communications Engineering

College of Engineering Guindy
Chennai, TN
2011

Skills

  • Programming Languages: Python, Go
  • Databases: Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis
  • Data Pipelines: PySpark, Kafka
  • API Frameworks: gRPC, GraphQL, REST
  • Cloud Services: AWS, Kubernetes

Timeline

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Minnesota

Electronics and Communications Engineering

College of Engineering Guindy

Nextdoor [2024-Current]

Staff Engineer, Growth Org

Lyft [2019 - 2024]

Technical Lead, Mapping Org

Bloomberg [2017 - 2019]

Software Engineer, Portfolio & Risk Analytics
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Qualcomm [2013 - 2016]

Software Engineer, Modem Software Performance
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