Founder Profile
Piyush Prahladka
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Piyush Prahladka possesses a profoundly deep, highly specialized technical background in massive-scale search infrastructure and complex data platforms. Forged intensely within the absolutely elite engineering cultures of Google and Uber, this massive background optimizing incredibly high-latency backend systems provided the exact technical blueprint required to effectively engineer Glean's highly responsive, AI-driven enterprise search architecture.
Founding Story
Piyush Prahladka is a highly elite software engineer and a crucial co-founder of the massive enterprise AI search platform, Glean. Boasting an incredibly rigorous technical pedigree, Prahladka previously engineered massive data systems at Google (focusing on complex search and ads infrastructure) and Uber (building highly scalable data platforms). In 2019, he partnered with Arvind Jain, T.R. Vishwanath, and Tony Gentilcore to launch Glean. Prahladka was absolutely foundational in architecting the company's early technology, specifically designing the incredibly complex systems required to seamlessly index deeply siloed data across dozens of disparate cloud applications. Having successfully helped establish Glean as a Silicon Valley juggernaut, he eventually transitioned to found a new stealth startup.