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    Ernie Prabhakar

    Ernie Prabhakar

    Caltech Ph.D. helping organizations "level up" to ship world-changing products on short deadlines with tiny budgets.

    Product Development Santa Clara Massachusetts Institu...
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    Experience
    NAUTO
    NAUTO
    IT Biz Apps Lead
    Employee
    Quilt Data
    Quilt Data
    Advisor
    The Swan Factory
    The Swan Factory
    Founder, CEO & Lead Developer 2014 - 2015 (6 months)
    In only 70 days, from a standing start:
    * Learned, designed, and built an app using Node.js, CoffeeScript & Reactive-Coffee
    * Recruited and managed a global team... more of consultants and volunteers
    * Recorded dozens of hours of remote pair-programming sessions
    * Developed and shipped a complete single-page web app
    * Delivered the first new paradigm for learning programming in 20 years

    On tight timelines with shoestring budgets, implemented Lean Startup and created prototypes for two clients.
    Apple
    Apple
    Developer Infrastructure Evangelist 2012 - 2014 (about 2 years)
    Built and managed technology platforms to amplify the reach of Apple's Technology and Design Evangelists. Developed a custom web application to replace legacy off-the-shelf... more software for managing sessions, speakers, and scheduling for Apple's World Wide Developer Conference in 2014. Managed vision, policies, roadmap, and moderation for Apple's Developer Forums and mailing lists.
    UNIX Product Manager 2003 - 2012 (about 9 years)
    Responsible for initiating, managing, and marketing Apple's Open Source strategy and UNIX positioning, helping establish Mac OS X as the most popular UNIX distribution and... more the MacBook as the preferred computer for Open Source developers.
    Product Line Manager for Developer Platforms 2000 - 2003 (almost 3 years)
    Managed Project Builder (the ancestor of Xcode) and the Product Managers responsible for Java and WebObjects. Drove the migration of WebObjects 5 to Java, including repricing... more it from enterprise to professional usage.
    Rhapsody Product Manager 1997 - 2000 (over 3 years)
    Drove the commercial release of Apple's first next-generation operating system, based on NEXTSTEP technologies. Including building the first graphical Process Viewer (the... more ancestor of today's Activity Viewer) and release the core UNIX technology as Open Source.
    Boston Consulting Group
    Boston Consulting Group
    Associate Consultant 1995 - 1997 (about 2 years)
    Helped drive adoption of the BCG HOLT Valuation model, including rewriting it as an interactive desktop Visual Basic application.
    Founder
    The Swan Factory
    Employee
    Apple, Boston Consulting Group, NAUTO
    Investor
     
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    Advisor
    Quilt Data
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
     
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    Member
     
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    Projects
    Mac OS X Server 1.0
    Shipped Apple's first modern operating system
    Sole Product Manager, Open Source, Objective-C, Unix · I shipped the raw Rhapsody technology as a complete product (messaging, marketing, features,… · More channel training, etc.) to support the net-booting capabilities of the original iMac.

    Mac OS X Server 1.0, released on March 16, 1999, is the first operating system released into the retail market by Apple Computer based on NeXT technology. It was the final release of the product code named Rhapsody, which was an interim combination of the OpenStep system (Mach OS and OpenStep API) and Mac OS 8.
    Bertrand Serlet
    Wilfredo Sanchez
    With Wilfredo Sanchez, Bertrand Serlet
    MacRuby Grand Central Dispatch
    Added GCD support to MacRuby
    Lead Developer · Added low-level C primitives and high-level Ruby wrappers for accessing Apple's new GCD concurrency system.

    Designed API,… · More wrote code and documentation, created and ran ruby spec tests.
    WWDC 2014 Intranet
    Built & ran the back end systems for managing the conference
    Full Stack Developer, Product Manager, Project Manager · * Proposed a custom web application to replace legacy off-the-shelf software for managing… · More sessions, speakers, and scheduling for Apple's World Wide Developer Conference in 2014
    * Single-handedly designed, architected, and developed the application in three months using Ruby on Rails 4, PostgreSQL, and Capistrano on an internal cloud platform
    * Performed continuous delivery of new features and around-the-clock support for both planning and running the conference

    Conceived, Designed, Implemented, Ran, Transitioned
    The Hour of Node
    Teaching event-driven programming as child's play
    Using reactive programming to teach advanced software design concepts to grade schoolers.
     
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    Achievements

    In only 70 days, from a standing start:
    * Learned, designed, and built an app using Node.js, CoffeeScript & Reactive-Coffee
    * Recruited and managed a global team of consultants and volunteers
    * Recorded dozens of hours of remote pair-programming sessions
    * Developed and shipped a complete single-page web app
    * Delivered the first new paradigm for learning programming in 20 years

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Objective-C Ruby on Rails Ruby Product Management Product Launch Mentoring Coaching Change Management Organization Development Business Process Re-Design
    Locations
    San Francisco Bay Area Silicon Valley
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