About

Pranaya Behera is a highly experienced Software Engineer with over 12 years of experience in the field. Currently, he works as a Search Engineer (Lucene/Solr) at jc penney. He has a strong background in Search and Information Retrieval and has worked on various backend REST frameworks and front-end web applications. Pranaya is also experienced in Distributed Systems. Pranaya has worked with several companies in the past, including igp.com, where he worked as a Senior Software Engineer. At igp.com, he worked on the search platform, including full text and partial text search. He also worked on contextual autocomplete and search. Pranaya used Java, Solr, Lucene, and Python while working on this project. He designed APIs and worked with Java, MySQL, and Redis. Pranaya also worked on full automation for production and dev environments using Jenkins. He used Storm for the queueing system and Python for scripts. Pranaya also worked as a Software Engineer at Zivame, where he built APIs for backend services. He developed a rule engine and discount engine in Java, which is currently in production. Previously, he implemented it in Python. Pranaya also implemented search for the applications using Apache Solr framework. He used Java, Python, and Solr while working on this project. Pranaya has a B.Tech degree in Ceramic Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela. He also has a 12th-grade degree in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics from BJB Junior College and a 10th-grade degree in English, Oriya, Sanskrit, Science, Mathematics, and Social Studies from Vivekananda Shiksha Kendra. Pranaya's technical skills include Software Engineering, Search, Information Retrieval, Java, Backend, Frontend, Web, Python, Redis, MySQL, and Jenkins. He has over 12 years of relevant experience in the field.