Pranav Saxena's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

Committer, Apache CloudStack @ The Apache Software Foundation Contributed to the open source development of Apache CloudStack by committing code patches for my own features, merging and reviewing other code patches submitted by the members of the Apache CloudStack open source community and answering queries for the community members.http://cloudstack.apache.org/who.htmlOfficial Apache ID - [email protected] United StatesSoftware Engineer, ...

Committer, Apache CloudStack @ The Apache Software Foundation Contributed to the open source development of Apache CloudStack by committing code patches for my own features, merging and reviewing other code patches submitted by the members of the Apache CloudStack open source community and answering queries for the community members.http://cloudstack.apache.org/who.htmlOfficial Apache ID - [email protected] United StatesSoftware Engineer,  Platform Infrastructure Engineering @ Apple  Platform Infrastructure Engineering (π): Involved in building the next generation secure & scalable infrastructure for Apple from scratch ! Key Areas: Highly scalable, fault-tolerant, HA, DR scenarios for infrastructure services with focus on encryption of data at rest using different cryptographic techniques.- Drove the efforts to build a secrets management infrastructure service from scratch running in production across Apple - Handling huge traffic, fault tolerant, highly scalable. Involved in architecting, designing, deploying, unit/load/integration testing the service in multiple environments in a team of just 2 people.- Worked on Siri's infrastructure to reduce latency by following the edge computing model.- Worked on end-to-end crypto service for iMessage encryption published on a Kafka broker queue.- Gave tech talks on Golang as a primary language for building distributed micro-services, available across Apple. From February 2015 to May 2018 (3 years 4 months) Cupertino, CaliforniaSenior Software Engineer @ Rancher Labs - Building something new - Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Docker, GoLang. - Open Source Contributor (https://github.com/pranavs18 )- Contributed to development of following components - Cattle (Java), Py-agent (Python), Host-API (GoLang),Go-Rancher Bindings (GoLang), docker-client(Go). Github repo - https://github.com/rancherio- Employee number 3 at Rancher ! From November 2014 to February 2015 (4 months) Cupertino, CaliforniaSoftware Developer, Architect, Program/Risk Manager @ Carnegie Mellon University Designed and implemented an Android mobile application from scratch with 3 team members - Collecting requirements from the client, defining quality attributes, analyzing features which add business value, creating and refining the architecture and implementation of computer vision algorithms for object boundary detection. From January 2014 to August 2014 (8 months) Greater Pittsburgh AreaSoftware Development Engineer @ Citrix Systems Part of OpenStack & Cloudstack development team under Data Center & Cloud Computing Division (www.openstack.org)Key Roles in Openstack :  Worked on the major service components required for setting up a cloud – Nova CLI ( compute engine ) , Glance CLI ( image uploading service for VHD , OVF etc. image formats) , Keystone service for Cloud user authentication , Openstack Dashboard (User Interface for Openstack) , Swift storage services. Worked on puppet calls for handling master-slave relationship in a cloud set up and REST API calls for tracking user requests in either JSON/XML format. Worked on scheduling algorithms for enabling multi-Hypervisor ( Xenserver for Citrix and Esxi for VMware) support for Openstack where in the image format was matched to a compatible hypervisor type using a key-value pair and the GUI changes for enabling this feature using JQuery . Apart from this work, I have gained a significant knowledge of python programming, shell scripting, Django web development framework, Xen Virtualization and basic of Jenkins automated testing.Key Roles in CloudStack : open source software written in java that is designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines(www.cloud.com)Worked with the peer team in the US remotely and directly on CloudStack UI Development using JavaScript ,JQuery, Ajax , HTML/CSS and Virtual Machine Transition State sync issues. Developed User Interfaces for numerous features for Apache CloudStack starting from Tooltips ,LDAP authentication , ACLs in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) , Dedication of Resources(VMs ,CPU) to an account , Egress firewall rules etc . From July 2011 to July 2013 (2 years 1 month) Santa Clara, United StatesSummer Research Intern @ National Center for Antarctic & Ocean Research Part of Geographical Information Systems Team where a high resolution digitized map for goa was developed using ARC GIS 9.3 software using Google API's. The digitized map was submitted to the Goa government , as such a high resolution map wasn’t available before.Won appreciation from Dr. S.Rajan ,Scientist G and Project Director (CLCS),NCAOR(goa) From May 2009 to July 2009 (3 months) Goa , IndiaSoftware Engineer, Special Projects (TDG) @  @ Apple - Focus on platform/low-latency Infrastructure, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, iOS/OSX development, distributed micro-services for CV/ML !- Driving the effort to build low latency CV/ML inferencing ultra low-latency infrastructure and CV/ML distributed micro services.- Technical Lead/DRI for various low-latency/high bandwidth distributed computing efforts- Used Xcode, Apple's UIkit, ARKit, Core ML, Cloudkit etc with Swift to build AR experiences.- Actively involved in hiring and mentoring junior candidates/interns- Responsible for driving cross organization effort to promote/adopt swift on server- Responsible for product ownership & conceptualization, strategy and driving the architecture for work assigned to interns/junior candidates.- One of the core representatives from Apple to drive collaboration with professors from Carnegie Mellon for bringing academia research into industry.- Hiring backend distributed systems engineers with a passion for CV/ML for my team.- Received spot bonus recognition from my group's director of engineering for driving, leading and implementing AR prototypes. From June 2018 to January 2020 (1 year 8 months) Cupertino, CaliforniaSDE Intern @ Microsoft 360 Part of the Microsoft C360 development team for enhancement & porting of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 . Developed an upgraded version of the enhancement known as C360 Notification Service / Reminder which has been completely developed on .NET framework using C#.. c360 Reminder lets you monitor any combination of users and/or queues and activity types, enabling users to monitor queues and other members in a team.(www.C360.com) .Product officially released on April 15, 2011. From January 2011 to June 2011 (6 months) Bengaluru Area, IndiaSenior Software Engineer - AR/VR (Facebook Reality Labs) @ Facebook - Building the future of shipping Augmented Reality as a platform (AR effects, CV/ML models as part of Spark AR platform ) for facebook family of apps - Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Portal and Facebook's future AR/VR initiatives !- Building the AR platform (infrastructure, cloud services, architecting AR effect anatomy) allowing first/third party AR content creators to create their AR effects using Spark AR Studio ( https://sparkar.facebook.com/ar-studio/) and make it available to Facebook family of apps.- Driving industry-academia collaboration between Facebook and renowned professors from universities. Menlo Park, California