Pranav K

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 12+ years of experience in B2B and B2C product development.
  • Expertise in AI/ML engineering and backend architecture.
  • Proven leadership in managing cross-functional teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy AI/ML Engineering leader in the Healthcare and Agriculture sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai/ml EngineeringBackend EngineeringEngineering LeadershipGeospatial IntelligenceEngineering ManagementProduct Management

Other Skills

AI capabilitiesAI/ML solutionsAPI servicesAgile MethodologiesAgile methodologyAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnalyticsApache SparkBlockchainC (Programming Language)C++Computer VisionData AnalysisDeep Learning

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โ€ข ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ+ ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž building and scaling B2B and B2C products across healthcare, banking, retail, and agriculture โ€“ driving innovation in areas like ML-powered workflows, speech recognition, supply chain optimization, and location intelligence. โ€ข ๐ƒ๐ž๐ž๐ฉ ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž, with a focus on architecting scalable, maintainable, and high-throughput systems powering web and mobile applications across diverse technology stacks. โ€ข ๐—›๐š๐ง๐๐ฌ-๐จ๐ง ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐ข๐ง ๐€๐ˆ/๐Œ๐‹ ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ , building AI/ML workflows, MLOps pipelines, and serving models for online, offline, and on-device predictions โ€“ in AI-first products, working closely with AI/ML Research counterparts. โ€ข ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ง ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ-๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ๐ฌ of 30+ developers, data engineers, ML/AI engineers, and QA engineers, owning the entire product lifecycle (conceptualisation, engineering design, development, testing, launch and long-term maintenance) as well as employee lifecycle (hiring, mentorship, performance management, retention) โ€ข ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐š๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ž๐ฑ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฑ, ๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ-๐๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ข๐ง ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ โ€“ translating ambiguous business problems into clear product and technical strategies, aligning stakeholders, and delivering scalable solutions with high execution rigor. โ€ข ๐„๐ฑ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ค๐ž๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ž๐ซ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž, collaborating closely with business & commercial teams, executive leadership, and technology teams internally, as well as working with external partners across global geographies.

Experience

Suki

2 roles

Senior Director, Engineering (Backend, Data & ML Engineering)

Promoted

Sep 2025 โ€“ Present ยท 6 mos ยท Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • ๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ ๐Ž๐ฐ๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ: Leading the Clinical AI platform spanning 60+ cross-functional contributors (direct and dotted-line), owning AI capabilities across all product lines including speech recognition, intent classification, and the Agent platform (medical coding, summarisation, Q&A & more).
  • ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‹๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ: Leading a 25+ member engineering org (direct & skip-level reports) across Backend, Data & ML Inference powering multiple AI-first products.
  • ๐๐š๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ: Built high-concurrency, low-latency real-time systems (Redis Streams, bi-directional gRPC, WebSockets) and architected Golang/Python microservices using domain-driven design.
  • ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š ๐ˆ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž: Delivered large-scale ML preprocessing & analytics platforms using distributed computing, workflow orchestration and polyglot persistence.
  • ๐Œ๐‹ ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  & ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ: Shipped production ML pipelines for ASR, intent classification & RAG while optimizing GPU/TPU utilization.
  • ๐‘๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ & ๐Ž๐›๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐š๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ: Built strong on-call processes, alerting, SLO tracking & full-stack observability for mission-critical clinician workflows.
  • ๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐œ ๐‘๐จ๐š๐๐ฆ๐š๐ฉ๐ฌ: Defined & executed technical + product strategy for platforms like Speech Recognition & API Platform aligned to business outcomes.
  • ๐‚๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ-๐…๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐›๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Partnered closely with AI Research, Product, Tech Support, Commercial & Executive leadership.
  • ๐๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž & ๐Ž๐ซ๐  ๐‹๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ: Managed senior engineers & managers; led hiring, onboarding, mentoring, performance reviews & career growth.
AI capabilitiesspeech recognitionintent classificationGolangPythonmicroservices+6

Director of Engineering

Dec 2022 โ€“ Sep 2025 ยท 2 yrs 9 mos ยท Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Dehaat

2 roles

AVP - Engineering

Promoted

Sep 2021 โ€“ Nov 2022 ยท 1 yr 2 mos ยท New Delhi, Delhi, India

  • ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‹๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ: Led a 30+ member team (developers, TLs, EMs, testers) in the DeepTech vertical, delivering AI/ML, GIS, and conversational tech solutions for large-scale agri-business use cases.
  • ๐“๐ž๐œ๐ก ๐’๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฒ & ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ: Built multiple scalable systems from scratch, owned technology roadmaps, reviewed HLDs/LLDs, and enforced engineering best practices. Drove quality via coding standards, design reviews, and metric-based governance (business, product, system metrics).
  • ๐“๐ž๐š๐ฆ & ๐๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐Œ๐š๐ง๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ: Built and scaled engineering teams; managed hiring, mentoring, appraisals, developer productivity, and team morale. Project & SDLC Ownership: Led end-to-end SDLC using Agile practices (sprint ceremonies, estimation, task tracking, issue resolution).
  • ๐‚๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ-๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐›๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Worked closely with product, QA, design, support, and business teams on roadmaps, PRD reviews, feasibility, and process alignment across product-engineering-QA.
  • ๐Œ๐‹/๐€๐ˆ ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ: Set up the ML engineering function; delivered use cases like chatbots (DialogFlow, Rasa), satellite-based crop & boundary detection. Built distributed ML workflows (10+ TB data), with full versioning, evaluation, and retraining.
  • ๐†๐ž๐จ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž: Built a 100+ TB geospatial data warehouse; architected Indiaโ€™s first personalized advisory engine for farmers, delivering millions of IVRS/chat/mobile advisories to 1M+ users monthly.
  • ๐€๐ ๐ซ๐ข ๐’๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ข๐ง: Led the companyโ€™s largest vertical handling โ‚น1000s of crores in transactions; developed stakeholder-facing B2B/B2C apps (React, React Native) integrated with SAP and Odoo ERPs.
AI/ML solutionsGISconversational techscalable systemstechnology roadmapsAI/ML Engineering+1

Engineering Manager

Jun 2020 โ€“ Sep 2021 ยท 1 yr 3 mos ยท New Delhi, Delhi, India

Lepton software

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Oct 2018 โ€“ May 2020 ยท 1 yr 7 mos ยท New Delhi, Delhi, India

  • Led a 14-member team to build an analytics platform that is powering advanced geospatial visualization & analysis requirements for many leading global corporations across multiple industries.
  • The platform includes web applications as well as API-based services that enable user analysis on data with high volume, velocity & variety. Geo-temporal datasets were processed, stored & visualized to deliver insights for use cases like retail expansion, sales prediction, operations optimization etc.
  • Created Node.js based backend microservices for RESTful APIs, user authentication, handling GIS data; used React, Redux & Deck.gl for web applications; processed & stored datasets using GCP PubSub, Dataproc & Datastore; deployed using Cloud Functions, Cloud Run & App Engine.
  • Engaged in hands-on engineering management with extensive code & design reviews to meet requirements of reliability, scalability & maintainability. Set up software development processes (based on industry best practices) in the team. Managed projects using Agile methodology. Adopted scrum-based approach for timely delivery despite evolving requirements.
  • Team management: Performed on- and off-campus hiring, retention, appraisal, mentorship with direct reports. Created a knowledge-sharing culture & culture of trust with frequent team activities.
  • Communicated effectively with other stakeholders in the company including higher management, sales & marketing team etc. to decide & execute strategies for product enhancement & growth
  • Played a key role in product management โ€“ creating product roadmap, engaging with designers to create product UI, engaging with QA team to ensure thorough quality checks of product etc.
analytics platformgeospatial visualizationAPI servicesNode.jsReactAgile methodology+2

Technical Lead

Promoted

Oct 2017 โ€“ Sep 2018 ยท 11 mos ยท New Delhi, Delhi, India

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2017 โ€“ Sep 2017 ยท 8 mos ยท New Delhi, Delhi, India

Stealth startup

Software Engineer

Jul 2013 โ€“ Dec 2016 ยท 3 yrs 5 mos ยท New Delhi, Delhi, India

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) โ€” Aerospace Engineering

Jul 2009 โ€“ Jun 2013

Product School

Product Management

Nov 2021 โ€“ Jan 2022

St. Michael's High School - India

Pracheen Kala Kendra

Senior Diploma โ€” Design & Fine Arts

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