Pranav Kelkar
Seattle,WA
Summary
Motivated software engineer with experience in developing algorithms and solving problems in distributed systems.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Development Engineer 2
Amazon
Seattle, WA
05.2020 - Current
- Assisted in the growth of e-commerce initiatives as a software developer at Amazon for the previous 4 years. Led and assisted in the successful launch of 10-12 projects aimed at enhancing latency, security, and efficient storage for our team.
- Lead a team of 5 engineers to perform security enhancements to 10 of our services. Performed as team lead with responsibilities of both scrum master and software architect, designing and leading projects to completion within estimated time frame.
- Improved data compaction of Amazon's data on disk store by 30%. This project included analyzing performances of existing algorithms for data compaction and improving their features to improve compaction for Amazon's data on disk, testing the model for backwards compatibility, and then successfully launching the model of compaction and serialization in the given time frame. This helped our team achieve our annual goal of cost savings for data stored on disk.
- Managed operational load for Amazon as the front-line on-call during 8-10 Prime Days. Also helped Amazon to improve their testing standards at various stages of individual and team's projects.
- Mentored newer engineers on the team in successfully designing and launching their projects and setting them up for success.
Algorithm Intern
PHILIPS
01.2019 - 07.2019
- Served as a Philips Algorithm intern specializing in wearable devices for 8 months.
- Developed algorithm to enhance ECG signal capturing and filtering, elevating testing accuracy for walking and running action by 3%.
- Created Matlab tool for capturing ECG signals with wearable device, applied advanced filtering methods, and achieved successful gesture recognition for 5 different gestures.
- Contributed to the development of testing tools and devices, resulting in FDA approval for the device.
Graduate Research Assistant
RIT
07.2018 - 12.2018
- Focused my research work on traditional computer vision algorithms to achieve image segmentation at various lighting conditions.
- Assisted the professor as a grader for computer vision course work and also assisted my fellow research assistants in their research work in the field of computer vision
Education
Masters in Electrical And Electronics Engineering -
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester12.2019
Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunications -
Vidyalankar Institute of Technology
06.2017
Skills
- Performance Tuning
- Automated testing
- Software testing
- Design and development
- API Development
- Algorithm development
- Architecture planning
- Integration Testing
- Full-stack development
Programming languages and Frameworks
- JAVA
- Python
- Ruby
- C++
- Spring
- AWS Tools
Timeline
Software Development Engineer 2
Amazon
05.2020 - Current
Algorithm Intern
PHILIPS
01.2019 - 07.2019
Graduate Research Assistant
RIT
07.2018 - 12.2018
Masters in Electrical And Electronics Engineering -
Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunications -
Vidyalankar Institute of Technology
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