About

Achintya Prakash is an experienced Technical Lead Manager with a focus on building scalable systems. Currently working as a Staff Software Engineer at Square, he leads the Security Visibility Engineering team for the Seller Product Security department. Achintya has played a crucial role in building the team from 2 to 5 engineers and is continuously engaged in hiring. He has taken over a hundred interviews and provided final hiring decisions for teams across Square. Achintya is also responsible for mentoring junior and senior engineers, setting engineering culture and process, and executing org-level projects. Achintya has previously worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Michigan, where he applied game theoretic analysis to cyber security for moving target defense. He has also worked as a Software Development Intern at Google, where he developed convolutional neural nets for object boundary regression. Achintya holds a Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) degree in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science. He completed his Higher Secondary Certificate from St. Columba's School, New Delhi. With 7.53 years of relevant experience, Achintya's technical expertise includes Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, and Research Scientist. He is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to apply his skills and knowledge. If you are looking for a Technical Lead Manager, Achintya Prakash is the person to talk to.