Prashanth Chandrasekar guides how developers around the world find, share, and manage technical knowledge as CEO of Stack Overflow. Before taking the helm to build community-centered AI tools, he grew public cloud businesses at Rackspace.
Prashanth focuses on the evolving partnership between human intelligence and machine learning. He frequently advocates for maintaining trust in technology, emphasizing that the future of the internet relies on human-curated data.
He studied computer engineering at the University of Maine before earning master’s degrees from Cornell and Harvard.
Videos
Stack Overflow’s Next Chapter as the Trust Layer for the Agentic Era
Prashanth Chandrasekar +1
World Congress North America · 2026
The future of Stack Overflow as the most vital source for technologists
Jody Bailey +1
World Congress · 2025
The Data Phoenix: The future of the Internet and the Open Web
Prashanth Chandrasekar · Stack Overflow
World Congress · 2024
Collaborative Intelligence: The Human & AI Partnership
World Congress · 2024
Stack Overflow: Community and AI
Prashanth Chandrasekar · Stack Overflow
World Congress · 2023