Pranav Kanade

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States8 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led AI agent development at Appsmith.
  • Achieved 4.7/5 CSAT score in customer support.
  • Drove revenue growth from 0 to 10% of ARR.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused technical leader with expertise in AI and customer experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipProject ManagementTeam LeadershipOverseeing ProjectsCode ReviewEnterprise Solution Design

Other Skills

AI agentsCustomer TrainingMigrationAI Voice appsPOCsCustomer SupportService PoliciesRevenue GrowthCross-functional Team LeadershipProcess ImprovementTeam ManagementUI DevelopmentFeature DevelopmentCode GuidelinesFrontend Engineering

About

Building Appsmith, to make my own job obsolete!

Experience

Appsmith

3 roles

Director of AI solutions

Promoted

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Building AI agents for Appsmith and Customers
  • Customer Training & Migration
  • Building AI Voice apps
  • POCs: AI native features in browser; terminal & with MCPs
AI agentsCustomer TrainingMigrationAI Voice appsPOCsTechnical Leadership+1

Head of Community & Customer Service

Promoted

Jan 2022Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Transitioning from an engineering role to spearheading the Customer Support team, I've played a pivotal role in ensuring the product's success. Responsible for daily operations, I focus on delivering exceptional service, instituting customer service policies for enterprise clients, and driving revenue growth.
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead the cross-functional team that acts as a support and engg. solutions to facilitate great customer experience.
  • Oversee smooth support team operations.
  • Guide critical customer issues.
  • Channel customer feedback to enhance product features.
  • Collaborate with teams for self-help resources, reducing complaints.
  • Build customer relationships, enhancing retention.
  • Highlights:
  • Establish processes and automations necessary for team's success
  • Developed and implemented support policies for enterprise clients.
  • Facilitated revenue growth from 0 to 10% of the company's ARR.
  • Led a process improvement project, reducing complaints by 20%.
  • Achieved a 4.7/5 CSAT score.
  • Hiring great engineers, and built a solid team
  • Switching gears to a customer-facing role, I've built processes and guidelines to deliver exceptional support, contributing significantly to the company's growth and customer satisfaction.
Customer SupportService PoliciesRevenue GrowthCross-functional Team LeadershipTeam LeadershipTechnical Leadership

Senior Frontend Engineer

May 2021Jan 2022 · 8 mos

  • Joined Appsmith in its early days.
  • 1. Built it's entity and pane navigation and revamped UI for Query Editor, and Datasource Pages.
  • 2. Co-owned commenting feature (now deprecated, code available on GitHub), which enabled app users to give feedback to the developer and ask for clarification.
  • 3. Built the modern Admin setting & and SSO features for the enterprise users
  • Ownership -
  • 1. Developed enterprise vs. community code splitting guidelines for different offerings of Appsmith.
UI DevelopmentFeature DevelopmentCode GuidelinesTechnical LeadershipOverseeing Projects

Indorse

2 roles

Lead Frontend Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2020Apr 2021 · 7 mos

  • Led the development of a new productivity analytics solution called Metamorph. Took the platform from 0 - 1 (ready for launch) in 6 months.
  • Ownership -
  • 1. Tech arch of the platform
  • 2. Managed frontend team and deliverables
  • 3. CD/CI pipeline for the project
Productivity AnalyticsTech ArchitectureCD/CI PipelineTechnical LeadershipTeam Leadership

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2019Sep 2020 · 1 yr

  • Built Indorse's Evaluation platform for their Upskilling solution and Revamped the entire UI of the platform based on the uniform designed system and brand language.
UI RevampEvaluation PlatformCode ReviewEnterprise Solution Design

Freelance | full stack

Software Engineer

Jun 2019Sep 2019 · 3 mos · Pune

Computer Science

Persistent systems

2 roles

Software Engineer

Oct 2017May 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Pune Area, India

Computer Science

Teaching Assistant

May 2016Jun 2016 · 1 mo · Pune Area, India

  • Persistent Systems' Computing Institute, conducts free of cost training program for Computer Engineering students from Pune. Where my responsibilities were as follows:
  • 1) Doubts clarification.
  • 2) Helping students with technical problem.
  • 3) Grading students for their performance in class.
  • 4) Providing feedback to instructor on their sessions.
Computer Science

Education

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2013Jan 2017

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