Prashant Parashar

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Prashant's views on technology leadership show how he connects engineering choices to business performance.

Prashant Parashar

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Scaling Internet Platforms

Prashant leads technology through steep changes in demand, product scope, and organizational complexity. At Zomato, he owned technology while orders grew more than 10x. At Snapdeal, he led architecture that supported flash-sale throughput above 100,000 orders per minute. His scope spans software architecture, infrastructure, failure handling, and engineering organizations, with each layer tied to the same growth objective.

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Building Marketplace Systems

Prashant builds marketplaces by treating matching, incentives, service levels, and unit economics as one system. At Delhivery Direct, he led a hyperlocal platform from zero to five cities in six months. At Snapdeal, he built the foundation for the company's transition into a full e-commerce marketplace. His work spans product flows, prediction, allocation, operational integrations, architecture, and the teams required to run them.

Prashant Parashar

About Me

Prashant Parashar is a technology executive and founder with more than two decades in software. He has led technology and engineering at Zomato, Snapdeal, Ola, and Delhivery across consumer marketplaces and logistics.

He is now building an AI-based professional opportunity platform. The product aims to match candidates and hiring managers through role context, attitudes, and soft skills alongside technical requirements.

At Zomato, he led a team of around 150 as CTO while orders grew more than 10x and the company launched products including Zomato Gold and Zomato Treats.

At Ola, he owned technology for the cabs business and led improvements to pricing transparency, payments, integrations, and the driver app that contributed to driver retention improving by more than 30%.

Prashant Parashar

I start with the business problem, then make the architecture, infrastructure, and engineering organization serve that outcome.”

Prashant Parashar

On technology leadership

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