Prashanth Chandrasekar is a proven technology executive with extensive experience leading and scaling high-growth global organizations. He is is Chief Executive Officer of Stack Overflow and is responsible for driving Stack Overflow’s overall strategic direction and results.

Previously, Prashanth served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s Cloud & Infrastructure Services portfolio of businesses, including the Managed Public Clouds, Private Clouds, Colocation, and Managed Security businesses. Before that, Prashanth held a range of senior leadership roles at Rackspace, including Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace’s high growth, global business focused on the world’s leading Public Clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Alibaba Cloud, which became the fastest growing business in Rackspace’s history.

Prior to joining Rackspace, Prashanth was a Vice President at Barclays Investment Bank, focused on providing Strategic and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) advice for clients in the Technology, Media, and Telecom (TMT) industries. Prashanth was also a Manager at Capgemini Consulting where he managed Operations, transformation engagements, and consulting teams across the US.

Prashanth holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an M.Eng in Engineering Management from Cornell University, and a B.S. in Computer Engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Maine.