About
Raghavendra (RVP) Prabhu is Vice President of Engineering at Headway. He co-founded Tezi, serving as CEO, where the company developed an autonomous AI recruiting agent called Max. Over roughly two decades in engineering and AI, he worked on search at Microsoft and Google, infrastructure at Twitter and Pinterest, and held CTO roles at Thumbtack and Covariant.
Founder & CEO at Tezi
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Co-founders at Tezi
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Jason PetersenCo-founder
Experience
- HeadwayVice President of Engineeringcurrent2026 — present
- TeziCo-Founder & CEO2023 — 2026San Francisco Bay Area
- VariousAngel Investor / Advisor2015 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
- CovariantAdvisor2023San Francisco Bay Area
- CovariantCTO / Head of Engineering and Research2020 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
- ThumbtackAdvisor2020San Francisco, California, United States
- ThumbtackChief Technology Officer2016 — 2020San Francisco, California, United States
- PinterestHead of Infrastructure2013 — 2016San Francisco, CA
- TwitterSenior Staff Software Engineer2010 — 2013San Francisco, CA
- GoogleSenior Software Engineer2007 — 2010Mountain View, CA
- MicrosoftSoftware Design Engineer2002 — 2007Redmond, WA
Skills & more
Computer Science13Large Scale Systems10Scalability30Distributed Systems36Algorithms17Software Engineering12Big Data6Multithreading2Information Retrieval4MapReduce17Linux5
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Raghavendra (RVP) Prabhu?
- Raghavendra (RVP) Prabhu is Vice President of Engineering at Headway. He co-founded Tezi, serving as CEO, where the company developed an autonomous AI recruiting agent called Max. Over roughly two decades in engineering and AI, he worked on search at Microsoft and Google, infrastructure at Twitter and Pinterest, and held CTO roles at Thumbtack and Covariant.
- Where does Raghavendra (RVP) Prabhu work?
- Raghavendra (RVP) Prabhu is Founder & CEO of Tezi.
- What companies did Raghavendra (RVP) Prabhu found?
- Raghavendra (RVP) Prabhu founded Tezi.
- Where did Raghavendra (RVP) Prabhu go to school?
- Raghavendra (RVP) Prabhu studied at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science).
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