Prashant Ramanathan

Prashant Ramanathan is a Senior Engineering Manager at Roblox, where responsibilities include leading engineering efforts for Marketplace Search and Recommendation since December 2020. Prior to this role, Prashant served as an Engineering Manager at Airbnb from November 2015 to September 2020, overseeing a team of over 10 machine learning engineers focused on search ranking and listing recommendations. Prashant's experience also includes serving as an Engineering Manager at Apple from January 2012 to October 2015, contributing to the launch of iAd's auction marketplace, and as the Director of Technology at Zeitera LLC from November 2007 to January 2012, where the focus was on audio/video fingerprinting technology. Educational qualifications include a PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BASc in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.