# Prabhu Ramanathan Babu > Engineering Leader in Enterprise SaaS Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/prabhu Prabhu is a self-starter and a hands-on engineering leader who has worked in both large public and early-stage SaaS companies. With 14+ years of experience, he specializes in building large-scale data and services architecture from the ground up. At ParkourSC, he is managing the teams responsible for core services, application services, and third-party integrations. Expertise: Microservices Architecture, AWS Services, Apache Kafka, MongoDB, MYSQL, Elastic Search, Redis, TestNG, JUnit, Jenkins, Docker, Java, Amazon Alexa Skill, Google Assistant Developer ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Lily AI Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, CA ### Senior Engineering Manager @ Sense Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Director Of Engineering @ ParkourSC Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Santa Clara, California, United States Joined ParkourSC to lead the Core Services and Integration initiatives for the ParkourSC's real-time supply chain digital visibility, intelligence, and operations platform. - Led an engineering organization with three cross-functional and geographically distributed engineering teams. - Defined the technical vision, roadmap, and strategy for the ParkourSC real-time integration platform for data aggregators, device vendors, and enterprises. The integration platform handles both inbound and outbound integrations. We integrated 50+ device types from 13+ device vendors and five third-party data aggregators. The enterprises integrated with ParkourSC via APIs, SFTP, and webhooks. - Architected and delivered the core platform services such as identity and access management, SSO integration, multi-tenant data sharing, customer messaging, and batch processing. - Led and delivered customer-facing features for the logistics application, self-service admin portal, and developer portal for the external API integrations. - One of the key contributors to ParkourSC’s multi-tenant SaaS architecture. - Partnered with cross-functional leadership to define engineering best practices, release cycles, processes for deployment, QA validation, and hiring. - Coached and managed the direct reports to transform the organization for the next level of growth and scalability. - Mentored three interns. Hackathons: a. Zero-coding Architecture: A metadata-driven, low/no-code approach allowing customers to build applications/features on the ParkourSC platform themselves. b. Integrating the ParkourSC platform with third-party applications like JIRA, Slack, etc. Technologies: Spring-Boot, Java, Cassandra, MySQL, Elastic Search, Kafka, AWS, Apache Camel, Microservices, IoT hubs. ### Engineering Manager @ Elementum Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area - Leading Elementum's customer onboarding platform from a managed service to self-service. Built integrations with 6 customers and 100s of their suppliers/partners in this platform. - Hired, motivated, and retained a team of 8 backend engineers in California and Argentina while scaling the ETL data pipelines required for the customer onboarding. - Shipped multiple REST API based microservices serving customer use cases across the supply chain stack. - Worked closely with product managers, designers, customer success team to define the team’s vision and road map aligning with the customer requirements. - Spearheaded cross-team initiatives - conducted design reviews, pushed for building common libraries, set up brown-bag sessions to learn from experts. - Led customer meetings for data integrations and helped pre-sales teams with product demos. - Received company-wide shoutout for winning and integrating two hackathons into mainstream projects. Technologies Used: Java 8, Apache Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Apache Giraph, Zookeeper, AWS Services, JAX-RS REST, Docker, Mesos DC/OS, MongoDB, MYSQL, Elastic Search, Redis, Sumologic and Jenkins. ### Senior Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineering @ salesforce.com Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 1. Asynchronous Web Services Callouts: Built a framework to prevent servlet thread starvation on high loads for large scale enterprise applications. Decreased the memory usage in different layers of the framework by analyzing the memory foot print using Yourkit tool. Tested performance using Jmeter tool with different loads and multiple scenarios and analyzed the impact on Async Http Client - queue, thread pool, connections per host and DB connections. 2. Eclipse plugin enhancement: Modified the Salesforce Eclipse plugin to auto-upgrade the projects to the latest stable JDK version by installing a new JRE in Eclipse IDE based on an Execution Environment Descriptor file. This feature greatly improved developer productivity and reduced future maintenance effort. ### Backend Engineer (Side Project) @ Spotluck Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Built the backend service from scratch (in parse.com) for both iOS and Android mobile apps.Involved designing database schema, writing background jobs and cloud functions to compute daily discounts based on factors like user actions, restaurant locations, weather etc. ### Software Engineer @ Brocade Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Design and implement drivers for network switches and routers. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Brocade Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 Designed and implemented SYSFS support for Brocade Linux network driver for Brocade 10 Gbps Ethernet to PCIe CNAs. It involves understanding of SYSFS implementation in Linux, Brocade network driver software architecture, design, implementation and testing of the SYSFS support for Brocade network driver ### Software Design Engineer @ Texas Instruments Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 Worked on file system and storage modules on NUCLEUS RTOS platform for LoCosto chip, the industry’s first single chip architecture for entry level mobile application. Designed and implemented low level device drivers to access Toshiba NAND flash and Intel Sibley NOR flash. Re-architected the legacy file system framework to improve the performance of both Reliance (a Transactional file system) and FAT file systems. Integrated FlashFx, a disk virtualization module that handles garbage collection and wear leveling of NAND and NOR flash memories, into TI file system framework. Owned the complete responsibility for file system driver development in the pre-silicon phase of ECosto chip- GPRS based wireless solution for feature phones. ### Research Intern @ Intel Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 Developed a data extraction tool using TCL/TK and PERL on UNIX platform. This tool provides the accurate details of a standard cell by conducting a validation on the existing standard cell library for each query submitted by the chip designer. ## Education ### Android Development CodePath ### Masters in Computer Science Arizona State University ### B.E. in Electrical Engineering PSG College of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/prabhurb --- Source: https://flows.cv/prabhu JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/prabhu/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10