About

Prashanth Pai is a highly skilled Principal Engineer at Unacademy with over 9 years of professional experience in backend engineering, specializing in micro-services, distributed systems, and cloud. He is proficient in Go and Python and has an impressive Github profile with contributions to various projects. Currently, Prashanth is part of the horizontal Platform Engineering team at Unacademy, where he builds and manages shared software infrastructure used by all product teams. In his previous role as a Software Development Engineer IV (Staff Engineer) at Plivo, he architected, built, and maintained micro-services that powered Plivo's messaging platform, which is leveraged by thousands of satisfied enterprise customers. He has also worked as a Software Development Engineer III at Plivo. Prashanth holds a Bachelor's Degree in Information Science and Engineering from PES University and has completed his pre-university education in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Computer Science from Saint Mary's Syrian Pre-University College. He has a deep understanding of backend engineering, microservices, software engineering, testing, Python, and infrastructure. With almost a decade of relevant experience, Prashanth is a highly skilled engineer with a passion for building scalable and reliable systems. He has a proven track record of delivering high-quality work and is always eager to learn and improve his skills. Prashanth is an asset to any team and is an excellent addition to any organization looking for a talented engineer.