Summary
Pranav Aurora is a product-focused engineer and designer who can code, with nine years of experience building data and cloud products from startup to enterprise scale. He co-founded Mooncake Labs, which was acquired by Databricks, and now works on Lakebase at Databricks bridging the lake and lakehouse paradigms. Previously he shipped product work at SingleStore and contributed to Project xCloud at Microsoft, demonstrating comfort across low-latency systems and consumer-facing platforms. A Summa Cum Laude BSE in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania, he blends rigorous technical foundations with product intuition. He’s equally at home sketching UX and shipping backend features, often translating design decisions into production-ready code. Based in San Francisco, Pranav combines entrepreneurial grit with a track record of moving data-focused ideas into deployed products.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at UWC South East Asia
BSE, Computer Science, Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, BSE, Computer Science, Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude at University of Pennsylvania