About

Pranav Nandedkar is a Senior Software Engineer with over 9 years of professional experience in Java Development. He has worked in all phases of the Software Development lifecycle, including System Design, Development, Production Support, and Maintenance. Pranav has a Master's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Santa Clara University with good academic credentials. Pranav has hands-on experience in designing and implementing Message Oriented Middleware / Framework and microservices architecture. He has designed, developed, supported the architecture, and resolved production issues. Pranav has excellent analytical and problem-solving skills along with good oral and written communication skills. Currently, Pranav is working as a Senior Software Engineer at Priceline, where he is working on projects such as Common Platforms and Streaming Services, Splunk, and Data Engineering. He has developed Kafka Producer and consumer Wrapper for resiliency, easy to use customization, adaptability into infrastructure and upgraded Kafka, helped client applications to migrate to newer versions. Pranav has also created a self-service tool in Spring Boot for automatically creating topics, schema, or ACLs for services with minimal manual intervention. He has developed components for serialization which seamlessly integrate with schema registry to validate avro/json schema. Additionally, Pranav has migrated the whole Kafka infrastructure to a managed service named Aiven. In his past experience, Pranav has worked as a Software Consultant at Capgemini, where he worked on projects such as Etrading - Bank of America. He was responsible for fine-grained authorization in the framework with Entitlement Service and Splunk support in the infrastructure. Pranav has also worked on microservices architecture in Java which supported the whole infrastructure. He addressed performance issues, provided live production support, performed root cause analysis, and delivered bug fixes as and when required. Pranav has worked in a multi-clustered (amrs/emea/apac) environment and collaborated with server, DBA, Infrastructure teams to deliver the requirements on time to the customers. Pranav has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from SRTM University, MH, and a Master of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Santa Clara University. His tech stack includes Software Engineer, Infra, Kafka, ETL, Java, Spring Boot, Spring, Microservices, Data Engineering, MySQL, Test, Python, and Web.