About

Amit Prakash is a highly accomplished technologist, co-founder, and CTO of ThoughtSpot Inc. He is also the author of the book "Elements of Programming Interviews." With almost two decades of experience in the industry, he has a proven track record of building and leading high-performance teams to deliver innovative solutions that drive business growth. Prior to starting ThoughtSpot, Amit worked as a Tech Lead at Google, where he led multiple teams responsible for algorithmic improvements to the Ad Serving system. He worked on infrastructure for some of the world's largest distributed machine learning systems, data analytics for Ads, improving signals and algorithms for ad selection, and low latency prediction server infrastructure. His team of 5-8 engineers added hundreds of millions of dollars of incremental ad revenue every year through algorithmic improvements. Before Google, Amit was a Software Engineer at Microsoft, where he was one of the first few engineers to join the Bing team. He was primarily responsible for building the distributed system that could load web graph and do PageRank like computations. He developed a spam-resistant version of PageRank and was also responsible for the machine learning component in Bing's static page analysis, index selection, and crawl prioritization. Amit holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is highly skilled in Senior Software Engineering, infrastructure, ML, Software Engineering, and Web technologies. With his extensive experience and expertise, Amit is a sought-after speaker and thought leader in the tech industry. In summary, Amit Prakash is a visionary leader with a passion for technology and innovation. He has a proven track record of building and leading high-performance teams to deliver innovative solutions that drive business growth. His expertise in Senior Software Engineering, infrastructure, ML, Software Engineering, and Web technologies makes him a valuable asset to any organization.