Founder Profile
Prasanna Sankar
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Prasanna Sankar possessed an incredibly rigorous, deeply elite background in advanced computer science, complex algorithmic engineering, and massive-scale backend infrastructure. Having successfully achieved the absolute highest global rankings in incredibly competitive programming competitions like Google Code Jam, this intensely technical and computational foundation provided the exact engineering leverage required to successfully co-found the incredibly massive Rippling platform.
Founding Story
Prasanna Sankar is a fiercely brilliant Indian-American software engineer, highly visionary digital architect, and the profoundly influential technical co-founder fundamentally responsible for programming the absolute structural bedrock of the massively dominant Rippling enterprise software platform. Operating as an incredibly talented developer who had previously co-founded LikeALittle, Sankar aggressively joined forces with Parker Conrad in 2016. He relentlessly spearheaded the incredibly complex backend engineering required to seamlessly integrate highly disparate IT, HR, and payroll systems into a single, massively unified data graph. By fiercely building highly scalable, incredibly secure architectures that could instantly provision software and manage employee data globally, his absolutely rigorous technical execution completely guaranteed the platform's early technological dominance. His massive engineering legacy permanently established the technical foundation of the multi-billion dollar Rippling ecosystem.