About

Pranav Khaitan is a highly skilled and accomplished Director of Engineering at Google with over 11 years of relevant experience. He is currently working as a Software Development Engineer Intern at Microsoft, where he has developed software for business intelligence. Pranav's impressive career began at Stanford University, where he worked as a Graduate Researcher in the Artificial Intelligence Lab, using machine learning to determine the genetic cause for certain diseases. He also worked in the Parallel Distributed Processing Lab, where he developed a computational model for processing natural language like a human brain. Additionally, he worked at the SLAC National Accelerator, where he simulated large-scale galaxy evolution as part of a national space research project. After leaving Stanford, Pranav worked as a Software Engineer Intern at Facebook, where he was a core team member responsible for building the new Facebook messaging system. He developed key infrastructure pieces powering the Facebook messaging system and wrote critical parts of the read/write path of the hbase database. He also made multiple open-source contributions to hbase, increasing stability and improving performance for certain cases by two orders of magnitude. Pranav holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from NIT Rourkela. His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, AI, Android, Research Scientist, Search, and Software Engineer. Overall, Pranav Khaitan is a highly skilled and experienced professional with a proven track record of success in the tech industry. He has a deep understanding of software development and is highly proficient in a range of technologies and programming languages.