About

Prateek Pandey is a seasoned Founding and Principal Engineer with over 11 years of experience in the technology industry. He is currently working at Rubrik, Inc. as a Principal Engineer and Manager, leading a team of 10 people in the SaaS Data Protection & Security division. Prateek has built this team from scratch over a period of one year, and their main goal is to make Rubrik a market leader in SaaS Data Protection. In his current role, Prateek is working in a dual capacity as a Tech Lead and Manager. He is responsible for building the whole data protection and data recovery suite for SaaS applications, integrating with Rubrik's Security Products, and building a resilient and large-scale distributed infrastructure to support the product. Prateek's expertise in infra and software engineering has been instrumental in achieving Rubrik's goals and making their products faster, more robust, and stable. Before his current role, Prateek worked as a Principal Engineer at Rubrik, where he architected and led the development for Colossus, Rubrik's cloud data engine. He also founded and led Rubrik's Cloud Native Workload protection team, enabling protection for VMs and Databases across cloud providers. Prateek's experience in building highly scalable and distributed systems has been invaluable to Rubrik's success. Prateek holds a B.Tech with Honours in Computer Vision from the International Institute of Information Technology and completed his Senior Secondary education from City Montessori School. His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Infra, and Software Engineer. Prateek's relevant experience in the industry is 11.94 years. Overall, Prateek is a highly skilled engineer with a passion for building scalable and robust systems. His experience in leading teams and building products from scratch has been critical to Rubrik's success in the SaaS Data Protection industry.