Feb 2025 – Jun 2025 · 4 mos

• Led product and marketing for Pangea’s Virtual AI Escape Room, a Prompt Injection Challenge, owning end-to-end execution — from game design to launch — driving 1,000+ players globally, 300K+ prompts, and 500M+ LLM tokens.
• Launched Demand Gen eBooks, datasheets and other product marketing resources

Jul 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Accelerated developer adoption by giving workshops/talks at OWASP BASC, BSides SLC '23, SW2 Conf (formerly Gluecon), and THAT Conference.
• Engineered POCs for Pangea CLI and external SDK features that boosted developer engagement with Pangea APIs.
• Moderated and spoke on live streams with partners such as Reversing Labs and AWS "The Big Dev Theory" show.

Apr 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Executed go-to-market and boosted developer engagement for Thales’s new data encryption product launch.
• Spearheaded developer adoption of product at the RSA conference 2022 and KubeCon 2022.
• Presented a talk at HashiCorp’s annual conference - HashiConf 2022 in LA - about “Securing Any Data Source”.

Feb 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · College Park, Maryland, United States

• Closed partnerships of founder resources with various tech companies like Vercel, MongoDB, etc.
• Sourced over $50,000 of credits and resources for founders at Startup Shell in the span of 3 months.

Dec 2020 – Nov 2021 · 11 mos

• Founded India's first cohort-based learning platform for passion-related courses. Had 7K+ monthly active users.
• Built the learning platform from the ground up and managed traffic to the website at scale and oversaw the sales and marketing execution.
• Negotiated with 100X.VC and People Group to raise $50K seed funding for Strive.

Jan 2020 – May 2020 · 4 mos · Maryland, United States

• Architected serverless API functions, and built and orchestrated containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes.

Sep 2018 – Mar 2019 · 6 mos

• Mentored the venture in creating an application to reunite missing people with their loved ones using facial recognition.
• Visit - https://reliefreunite.com/

Jul 2018 – Jun 2019 · 11 mos · Bangalore, India

• Developed, deployed and maintained full stack web infrastructures for the organization.
• Managed all the technology executive decisions in the organization.

Apr 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore, India

• Received the title Ashoka Youth Venturer for my work in innovation and social entrepreneurship. This gave me access to many experts and resources in the non profit sector.
• Visit - https://indiayouth.ashoka.org/youthventurer/pranav-shikarpur

Jun 2017 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore, India

• Built 'FLoBoT' - a portable, mobile, floating real-time data dissemination device for water quality monitoring and mapping. Tested the device in various different lakes across Bengaluru, India.
• Vist - www.testingwaters.co.in
• Won the Grand Award at the Intel ISEF 2018 and received the MIT minor planet honor.
• In the News:
• https://www.thebetterindia.com/162451/bengaluru-students-worlds-first-innovation-saves-lakes/
• https://thelogicalindian.com/my-social-responsibility/kids-innovative-device-lakes/
• More at - www.testingwaters.co.in/news

Jul 2015 – Feb 2021 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Youth Board member on the organization for 2 years re-evaluating the organization's values and guiding the organization's growth.
• Visit - reapbenefit.org/people-and-partners/
• I have also worked and helped develop a city-wide dashboard that provides insightful and transparent crowdsourced hyperlocal data; enables citizens, local organisations and governments to make better decisions for better neighbourhoods and hold local governance accountable.
• Visit - https://z.snpranav.com/rb-nd
• Worked on deploying dashboard to map COVID19 testing centers in India and provisions for the needy during the tough times of the COVID19 outbreak.
• Visit - https://z.snpranav.com/rb-covidnd
• For this project I also created an open source project that geocodes data from csv and has published on Github.
• Visit - https://github.com/snpranav/PyGeocode
• Worked on migrating from monolithic to microservices architecture. I have gained Docker and Kubernetes experience in the process.