Pradeep Prabhakar

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About Pradeep Prabhakar

I have dedicated my career as a Director of Engineering to helping companies navigate complex global IT and software development projects. My journey has been marked by a passion for driving significant revenue growth, enhancing operational efficiency, and leading teams through crisis management. With a proven track record in overseeing IT infrastructure, mergers and acquisitions, and cybersecurity measures, I bring a collaborative and supportive leadership style to foster innovation within teams. My expertise lies in shaping engineering organizations' operating models, providing strategic visions, and implementing cutting-edge technologies to enhance corporate processes.In my current role as Director of Engineering at Greendot Corporation, I lead a diverse team of engineers across web, mobile, data, and machine learning disciplines. I spearhead complex transitions, including the shift to a cloud-based BaaS platform for rapid expansion and the introduction of innovative products. Collaborating closely with product and design teams, I contribute to setting an industry-standard user experience. My focus is on establishing and implementing engineering best practices, processes, and standards to foster the development of high-quality and scalable software. Through strategic talent acquisition and development plans, I nurture a culture of collaboration and innovation within the engineering team, ensuring a robust technical infrastructure.At GreenDot, I advocated and implemented a cost-effective change in the logging platform, achieving 20% cost savings with improved alerting and dashboarding capabilities. My leadership resulted in a 30% expansion of the team headcount within a year, introducing HackerRank for standardized hiring and implementing training in test-driven development and behavior-driven development frameworks.At eMoney Advisor (Fidelity Investments), I led transformative initiatives to shift from a monolithic application to a microservices architecture. I spearheaded the development of a new product tailored for a younger demographic, achieving built-in infinite horizontal scalability.During my tenure at eBay Enterprise, I led teams through roles of increasing scope. I enhanced operational agility by reducing the software release cycle from 6-8 weeks to less than 8 days using OpenStack. If we haven't connected yet on LinkedIn, hit the connect button and let's grow together.