Summary
Pal Makkar is a product-focused technologist with a decade of experience building and shipping full-stack software across startups and large marketplaces. He has moved from hands-on engineering roles at Uber and Yelp into senior product positions at Radar, Applied Intuition, and now ATOMS, bringing deep familiarity with marketplace dynamics, matching algorithms, and end-to-end product development. A UC Berkeley computer science alum and co-founder of the campus CodeBase consulting group, he pairs technical fluency in Java, Python, C/C++, Ruby on Rails, and React with experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver customer-facing systems. Pal’s background includes both backend systems and polished front-end experiences, and he has a track record of turning research-level problems into production features that improve reliability and user choice. Based in New York, he is actively seeking opportunities to apply his product-engineering hybrid skillset to ambitious, impact-driven challenges.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Dublin High School
Wilcox High School
English, Hindi, Punjabi