Pranjal Kacholia

Software Engineer

Mountain View, California, United States7 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

Founded a successful IoT startup recognized among top 30 in India.
Developed microservices architecture improving system performance.
Led a tech team to innovate smart home solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused IoT and Microservices Engineer with startup experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Spring BootMicroservicesAgile MethodologiesInternet Of Things (iot)Python

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAWS IoT CoreAWS LambdaAmazon CloudWatchAmazon DynamodbAmazon EC2Apache KafkaC++ClustersCronDjangoFlaskJavaJavaScriptMqtt

About

Mail: pranjalkacholia17@gmail.com I have entrepreneurial experience in building a tech startup, "Eden Smart Homes" in the field of IoT (Internet of Things). This gave me end-to-end experience in building a software infrastructure Skills: DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Python, AWS IoT Core, CloudWatch, SNS, Firebase During my internship at Viasat, I built a layered microservice architecture microservice to algorithmically determine the instances for in-flight internet connectivity failure and implemented the corrective steps Skills: Spring Boot, Kafka, EC2, Python, Java I worked as a software intern during my undergrad where I was tasked to break monolithic architecture into different microservices to reduce latency Skills: Django, Python

Experience

Intuit

Software Engineer 2

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · On-site

Viasat inc.

Software Engineer Intern

May 2023 – Aug 2023 · 3 mos · Maryland, United States · On-site

Created Spring Boot microservice using layered architecture to determine the reduction in network beam strength
Designed comprehensive test cases using JUnit and Mockito; Used cron jobs to send automated alerts from grafana
Developed Kafka consumer to consume data from databus streams and used it to query the weather API endpoint

PythonApache KafkaSpring BootAPI DevelopmentMicroservicesJava

Stony brook university

Graduate Student

Aug 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · New York, United States · On-site

Courses: Computer Networks, Database Management Systems

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Product & Tech

Dec 2021 – Jul 2022 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Implemented the migration of client requests from concurrent processing to round-robin fashion using the shared MQTT subscription in VerneMQ; Increased the max client connections by 400% using a cluster of EC2 instances
Developed the backend software by breaking the monolithic architecture into 3 different microservices

MicroservicesAgile MethodologiesAmazon DynamodbAmazon EC2RabbitMQClusters

Eden smart homes

Founder

Jul 2018 – Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Delhi, India · On-site

Founded a tech startup that enables users to control electrical appliances using a mobile app, & makes them programmatically-operable based on past behavioral data and fixed schedules; Raised seed round in Aug’20 & got acquired in Dec’21
Led a tech team of 7 software engineers, working across Internet of Things (IoT) and Software development
Structured the MQTT pub/sub architecture to enable two-way interaction between hardware and mobile app
Defined topic rules to interact with AWS IoT Core and route data to the existing HTTP end-point in real-time
Created lambda functions to enable scenario creation; Devised EventBridge rules & Cron to create a timer in app
Formulated the data caching in Redis thereby decreasing app loading time by 25%; Constructed APIs for namespace environments and mapped the parameters to lambda functions
Recognition: Awarded top 30 startups in India by Inc42; Covered by The Financial Express, News

PythonCronAmazon CloudWatchInternet of Things (IoT)DjangoMqtt+2

Samsung iot lab

Research Intern

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)

Implemented an asynchronous multiple access protocol using TDMA, ensuring low latency over extended distances
Achieved improvement in network reliability by reducing collisions & improving the Packet Error Rate by ~6%

Clickpost

Software Development Intern

Apr 2017 – Jul 2017 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Integrated email & SMS gateways in the Clickpost communication module for seamless 3PL partner interfacing
Designed a microservice architecture using AWS Lambda, decreasing frequent timeouts & latency by 15%

PythonMicroservicesAWS Lambda