Pranav Patil Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

Palo Alto, California, United States

Working as a software engineer for early-stage Sutter Hill's portfolio companies:- [stealth startup] Designed a RAG system to store structured data from large documents. Individually engineered an entity graph to represent data in triple-store, implemented named entity resolution with a custom graph algorithm, and allowed for a growing understanding of dynamic systems over time. Also created UIs to interface with Supabase storage/database and surface relevant documents enhanced by information in knowledge store.- [stealth startup] backend work with FastAPI, frontend work with Vercel/Remix/React/Typescript

- Co-ran Caltech rotation for Lloyd House, helping run events and meetings for hundreds of students, automating processes along the way. Resulted in highest turnout in events among all houses.- Manage mail server for 200 students in Lloyd House. Systems administration for exim4 mail server on Ubuntu 14. Prevented ratelimiting of mailing lists during peak legitimate activity, created processes to automate email sends and extract email IDs from logs. - Created scripts to make house elections anonymous (by assigning voter IDs and verifying with hashing) to protect privacy of what people voted for. - Completely redesigned lloyd.caltech.edu website frontend, and added ability for admins to manage house members through website - Started Dev Team to organize/lead projects and to mentor underclassmen in full stack development.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• DRI’d deprecation of 2 tokenization paths for transactions and 3DS authentication carrying 50M USD daily payment volume.• Increased reliability of service by simplifying networking, increased test coverage, and coordinated rollout with 3 teams. • Wrote Go code, moved from HTTP to gRPC.

TA for CS 24, systems class (covers processes, assembly, compilers, etc.). Held office hours to debug C code and answer conceptual questions. Advocated for student needs during staff meetings.

Working in Threat Detection team. Developed features for slackbot to assist/automate with communications between teams. Also explored capabilities of security tools in Microsoft Azure (such as AI-based text extraction from logs).

TA for CS 21, covering complexity theory, models of computation, NP reductions, etc. Held Office Hours. Earned highest rating among TAs.

- Explored how to further utilize streaming search capabilities (Apache Flink) in Threat Detection team. - Added functionality for custom Python filters (in addition to SQL filters) on Kafka stream, and used this to create proof-of-concepts for aggregation functions for event correlation, subqueries for regex, and base64 obfuscation detection. - Determined the cost and advantages to upgrade Flink version (such as new features added versus which detections stopped working)

Virtual Companions helps elders stay connected during the global COVID-19 crisis. I created the website, and am now working on developing a platform to handle member enrollment and personalized matching (using Wix’s CORVID JavaScript API).I also presented to the Stanford Response Lab on data privacy and cybersecurity concerns for startups.

San Diego, Ca

- Wrote Python tool to categorize work items into more actionable format. Currently used by cyber teams at Northrop Grumman. Followed SOLID principles; utilized multithreading to improve performance, simplifying 15 min. of work to 4 sec. Well-documented object relations diagrammed in UML. - Assessed the security of code for C++ communications system using Fortify, wrote exploit code to prove feasibility/actual risk. Learned x64 Assembly to modify binaries and write custom shellcode. - Manager reported interview responses were of a level 2-3 engineer, performed at or above requirements

Developing Java, PHP, bash scoring system for CyberAegis (www.cyberaegis.tech), a nationally-ranked cybersecurity program.Individually improved scoring efficiency and accuracy through user testing and logging; implemented security fixes (e.g. prepared statements, HTTPS); decreased server load by staggering automated requests, allowing it to handle 100+ users (from ~30). System currently utilized by CyberAegis team.Worked with freelance developers in China to develop scoring server using Java, PHP, MySQL, bash

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Lloyd House Secretary; ML Lead, Caltech Robotics Team; Out Of Context A CappellaClasses: CS 124 (adv. Operating.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Founder/President Entrepreneurship Club Co-founder, PentaHex CTF (Capture the Flag) team Vice President.