Pramod Somashekar
Senior Director, Engineering, Data & Informatics
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPramod Somashekar is a results-driven senior engineering leader with 12 years of experience building data, informatics, and cloud-enabled systems, currently leading Engineering, Data & Informatics at Canary Medical. He combines hands-on software and backend expertise with product and program leadership from roles at AstraZeneca and in open-source contributions—having improved the Zendesk Java client to better handle ticket searches, special characters, and private comments. Pramod pairs technical fluency across databases, cloud architecture, and system administration with an MBA in Information Systems Management focused on healthcare, enabling him to translate clinical and business requirements into reliable, production-grade solutions. Known for rapid learning and consensus-building, he consistently drives process improvements and measurable client satisfaction while mentoring cross-functional teams.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BA, Game Design, BA, Game Design at University of Advancing TechnologyMBA, Information Systems Management, Healthcare, MBA, Information Systems Management, Healthcare at Keller Graduate School of ManagementN/A, Computer Science/ Economics, N/A, Computer Science/ Economics at Hunter CollegeMachine Learning, Machine Learning at Stanford University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (10)
javas10
api-rest10
rest-api10
api10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
architecture9
architectures9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cloudbees-oss/zendesk-java-client
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
A Java client library for interacting with Zendesk
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Pramod primarily focused on enhancing the Zendesk Java client library by adding new functionalities. They implemented methods to retrieve ticket incidents, get tickets by status, and search tickets via the API. Furthermore, they addressed a URI bug, ensuring accurate handling of special characters during ticket searches. Finally, they also added support to retrieve both public and private comments.
jsinteropclient-libraryzendesksdkjava
mdsol/RMauthClient
Aug 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years
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