Founding Member and Director of Engineering at Velotio. Previously at ThoughtWorks, Replay Gaming, and IISER Pune.
I am an entrepreneur and software engineer at heart, deeply focused on architecting robust backend systems. My expertise spans AI/ML, distributed architectures, high-performance computing, and data engineering. I have had the privilege of contributing to products that have scaled massively, now generating over $1B USD in recurring revenue. I thrive when collaborating with nimble, smart teams to solve complex challenges and build impactful technology.
I've worked with engineering teams at Netflix, Coupa, UpThink, Kognitos, MaxIQ, Syngenta, NetApp, Zylotech, Snowflake, GenLeap, Sunsama, Manulife, PureStorage, HEAVY.AI, and other companies—delivering measurable business impact through scalable technology solutions.
This is my personal space where I explore software engineering and leadership challenges—and their solutions. When time permits, I write about these experiences and publish them here as notes and articles.
Writings
- Beyond the LLM Monolith: How Enterprises Capture AI Value
- My Experience with Frontier LLMs: A Comparative Study
- The Agentic Shift: Building AI That Does, Not Just Suggests
- Lessons from Enterprise AI Projects
- Technical Debt in the Age of AI-Assisted Coding
- Observability for LLM-Powered Systems
- The Director's Playbook: Running Engineering at Scale
- Why I Stopped Chasing the Latest Model
- Prompt Engineering is Dead, Long Live System Design
- The Architecture of Trust: Designing Systems Humans Can Audit
- Building for India: Latency, Cost, and Regional Nuance
- Engineering Leadership: Diagnostics, Ambition, and Mentorship
- Evaluating Frontier LLMs for Enterprises
- Designing Dependable Distributed Systems
- Repository Hygiene for Distributed Infra Teams
- My Developer Environment Blueprint
Contact
pranav [at] pranavkulkarni [dot] org — include "Namaskar" in the subject line.
Pune, India