Summary
Pranav Bheda is a Senior Engineering Manager leading Zillow's Rental Platform, with 11 years of experience building and scaling backend systems for high-throughput consumer products. He architects Java platforms, frameworks, and data pipelines that empower 150+ engineers to ship microservices reliably, and has driven a major monolith-to-microservices split and extensive modularization of the Datarouter framework. Known for deep systems and data-store expertise (MySQL, Redis, Spanner, Memcached, BigTable), he combines hands-on library and framework development with people leadership and coaching across the Rentals organization. Pranav pairs practical platform engineering—type-safe API frameworks, plugin-able modules, and dependency management—with an emphasis on developer velocity, testing, and observability. Based in San Francisco, he brings an academic grounding from Santa Clara University and Georgia Tech while remaining intensely product-focused. A behind-the-scenes strength is turning large, legacy codebases into extensible platforms that enable others to move quickly and confidently.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Harker School
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University
Spanish, English