Prakash Janakiraman

Prakash Janakiraman is the Advisor of Nextdoor. He previously worked as a Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering at Nextdoor, the free and private social network for neighborhoods. Janakiraman began his career as a software engineer at Excite@Home in 1996 before moving into engineering management at Shopping.com and Epinions. Prior to Nextdoor, Janakiraman spent nearly three years at Google, where he managed engineering teams for Google Maps, Google Base, and Froogle. At Nextdoor, Janakiraman has built a team of over 20 engineers who are dedicated to building the fastest and safest social network for neighborhoods on the web. Janakiraman is from Hayward, California, and attended the University of California, Berkeley.