Prashanth Jonnalagadda is an accomplished engineering leader with expertise in various areas including large-scale distributed systems, low latency, ad exchanges, high-performance ad serving, display advertising, real-time bidding, web-scale data, and messaging middleware. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and a BE in Computer Science from B.M.S College of Engineering.

With a career spanning several organizations, Prashanth has held multiple leadership roles. He is currently the Head of Engineering at Habu, a position where he leverages his considerable technical expertise in leading the development of effective engineering solutions. He has also served as Senior Director of Software Engineering at Salesforce, as well as Director of Software Engineering, where he demonstrated his exceptional technical and leadership abilities to build and manage high-performing engineering teams.

Prior to his time at Salesforce, he served as Software Architect/Engineering Manager at Krux Digital, Inc., Technologist at AdMobius, and Software Development Engineer at IBM Software Labs. During his tenure at Yahoo!, where he was a Principal Technical Yahoo! and Tech Lead, Prashanth contributed significantly to the development of Yahoo's flagship products.

Prashanth's specialties in engineering leadership, ad exchanges, and ad serving, among other areas, have positioned him as a leader in the technology sector. With his wealth of experience in developing and managing high-performing engineering teams, he has a reputation for delivering solid results in even the most complex projects.