Prasanna Sankar
Co-founder of Vorflux
Prasanna Sankar co-founded Rippling, the HR, IT and finance platform, with Parker Conrad in 2016 and was its CTO until 2020. Before that he was the first engineer on Zenefits Payroll and co-founded LikeALittle, a Y Combinator campus social network. He studied computer science at NIT Trichy and now co-founds Vorflux, which runs coding agents for software teams.
Rippling
Vorflux
- HR software
- Competitive programming
- Y Combinator
- Now
- Co-founder, Vorflux3
- Previously
- Co-founder and CTO, Rippling (Y Combinator, Winter 2017)1
- Education
- B.Tech, Computer Science, NIT Tiruchirappalli3
- Based in
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India3
In their words
I used to do a lot of programming contests: I was ranked #1 in India at TopCoder while at college. 2x Google Code Jam world finalist. 2x ACM ICPC world finalist. Now, since the models have gotten better than me, I am building Vorflux — autopilot for software engineering. It runs coding agents on your full stack in the cloud, builds and tests features end to end, and clears your backlog overnight, no babysitting on your laptop.
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Experience
- Co-founderJan 2026 – now
Vorflux runs coding agents that plan, build, test, review and merge software changes, with engineers supervising.3
- FounderJan 2023 – Jul 2026
A decentralized social network for following friends' on-chain crypto activity.3
- Co-founder and CTOMay 2016 – Jul 2020
Built the first software with Parker Conrad while the company ran in stealth from Conrad's San Francisco home for two years.4
- Director of EngineeringJan 2015 – May 2016
First engineer on Zenefits Payroll.3
- Co-founder and CTO2009 – 2013
A campus social network that reached 20 million page views in six weeks. By his account it raised $7 million, including from Andreessen Horowitz, but it turned out to be a fad and failed.3
- Software DeveloperJun 2008 – Oct 2009
Worked on the Bing crawler, which he says he made 3.2 times faster, and wrote a distributed disk cache, in the Vancouver area.3
- Intern32006
Education
B.Tech, Computer Science3
Recognition
Milestones
- Interned at Google3
- Joined Microsoft as a software developer after finishing his B.Tech at NIT Trichy3
- LikeALittle launched; TechCrunch named its founders as Evan Reas, Prasanna Sankaranarayanan and Shubham Mittal5
- LikeALittle, in Y Combinator's Winter 2011 batch, reported 20 million pageviews in its first six weeks5
- TechCrunch reported LikeALittle had raised $1 million from Andreessen Horowitz and others at a $10 million valuation6
- Became Director of Engineering at Zenefits and the first engineer on Zenefits Payroll3
- Co-founded Rippling with Parker Conrad, as CTO4
- Rippling went through Y Combinator's Winter 2017 batch1
- Left his role as Rippling's CTO3
- Founded 0xPPL, a social network for on-chain crypto activity3
- Co-founded Vorflux3