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Prashanth Chandrasekar

Evaluator · DISC type Csd
Chief Executive Officer at Stack Overflow
📍 San Antonio, Texas, United States

Prashanth Chandrasekar is the CEO of Stack Overflow, leading its transformation with Enterprise SaaS and AI products. With an MBA from Harvard, he previously managed a $2B+ portfolio at Rackspace. Colleagues describe him as brilliant, driven, and energetic.

Originally from Bangalore, India, he is married with two children. He has a deep-rooted connection to technology, as his father was an engineer and he enjoys exploring open-source AI tools like Llama 3. 1 in his personal time.

Interesting fact: After a trip to Europe, he quit his daily coffee habit cold turkey, seeing it as an unhealthy dependency.

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Experience
21 Years
Current Role
Chief Executive Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Personality Overview

How Prashanth shows up

Quality Focused
Thorough Evaluator
Fast But Analytical

They focus on the results, but can still be quite procedural and analytical about how to get there They are not very likely to become strong advocates of your product or service They have a unique set of diverse traits where they are decisive and methodical but can sometimes be extra cautious and skeptical

Priorities

Topics Prashanth cares about

AI Integration
He is focused on turning AI from a potential headwind into a tailwind for Stack Overflow through partnerships with companies like Google and OpenAI.
Developer Community
Believes the community is the heart of the company and emphasizes the importance of building with the community, not just for it.
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Career

Work history

10-2019
Chief Executive Officer
Stack Overflow
Senior Vice President & GM, Cloud & Infrastructure Services
Rackspace Technology
2017 - 2019
Senior Vice President & GM, Global Managed Public Clouds
Rackspace Technology
2015 - 2017
Vice President & GM, Global AWS Business Unit
Rackspace Technology
2013 - 2015
Senior Director & GM, SMB Marquee Business Segment
Rackspace Technology
In the press

Media appearances

Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar. Featured in CEO.com
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Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar. Featured in YouTube
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Education
2006 - 2008
MBA
Harvard Business School
M.Eng.
Cornell University
B.S.
University of Maine
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

C

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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