About

Prasad Marla is a skilled Software Engineer at Facebook, with a strong background in computer science. He is currently pursuing his Master's Degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook University, New York, and is expected to graduate in December 2017. Prasad is actively seeking full-time opportunities as a Software Engineer or Software Developer, starting from January 2018. Prasad has previously completed an internship at Facebook HQ, where he worked on driving admin activation for pages growth vertical. He has also worked for 2 years as a Software Engineer at eQ Technologic, India, where he gained expertise in the business intelligence domain by working on multiple core modules of eQube-BI product. Prasad is proficient in Java, C, and JavaScript, with a strong understanding of SDLC, design patterns, developer tools, methodologies, and best practices. He enjoys working in technically challenging environments and keeping himself updated with new software and methods to assist with product development. Prasad's key specialties include Data Structures and algorithms, C, Java, Scala, OOP, Apache Spark, Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Databases like Oracle, MySQL. He has relevant experience of 7.61 years in the field of software engineering. During his time at Facebook, Prasad has built a growth-oriented notification framework to increase weekly active page admins, estimated to increase by 1.4 MN weekly active admins. He has also worked on page insights to provide page like invite and page fan growth metrics, estimated to have an impact of 500k-600k weekly active pages. Prasad has implemented a GBDT based model for improving the notification click-through rate. Prasad has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, where he studied from 2010 to 2014. He is also pursuing his Master's Degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook University, where he has been studying since 2016. Prasad's technical skills include Software Engineering, Java, Spark, Javascript, MySQL, Hadoop, Scala, and Apache Hive.