About

Pranesh SK is a Software Development Engineer 2 at Microsoft, with a strong background in scalable and reliable system design, computer systems concepts, high-performance computing algorithm design, parallel and multi-threaded applications, and computer networks. He is proficient in programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, Shell Scripting, CUDA, and MPI, and has experience working with platforms and tools such as Docker, gRPC, Google Test framework, UNIX, Google Cloud Platform (App Engine, Data Flow), AWS (S3, EC2, API Gateway, Lambda). Pranesh has a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he worked as a Graduate Student Researcher on a project that focused on the backend of a fog network that allows applications to be deployed across a geo-spatially distributed, large-scale latency sensitive network. He also has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from VIT. Pranesh's current role at Microsoft involves building the Distributed Backend Services and Infrastructure for the Core Calling Services team, which empowers the communication platform of Microsoft such as Teams and Skype. He has also worked as a Graduate Software Intern at Harman, where he implemented a B2B server interface for processing map data from data vendors, with scalable microservices on AWS using Lambda functions, API Gateways, and Amazon S3. He also extended cloud services and RESTful APIs to improve navigation with real-time data and traffic integration on a Navigation application. Prior to that, he worked as a Graduate Student Researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he rebuilt the system's entrypoint server and built a profiling framework for the Distributed Execution Framework. Pranesh's TechStack includes Software Engineering, AWS, test, Docker, Microservices, Backend, infra, Python, Java, Research Scientist, and Integration. With 3.69 years of relevant experience, Pranesh is a skilled engineer with a strong academic background and a track record of delivering scalable and reliable systems.