Pranav Goyanka
Associate Software Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolPranav Goyanka is an associate software engineer with a strong focus on distributed systems and backend engineering, combining industry experience at Goldman Sachs, MPL, and Amadeus with an MS in Computer Science from Boston University. He has hands-on experience building scalable microservices, Kafka pipelines, and observability/autoscaling libraries that delivered measurable cost and reliability improvements in production. In academia he implemented consensus protocols in Go, designed graduate coursework, and taught distributed systems—bridging research and practical engineering. An active open-source contributor and Google Summer of Code mentor, he also mentors students and contributes UI-first projects aimed at onboarding new contributors. Pranav’s background in both low-level systems work and product-facing backend services gives him a rare blend of performance-minded engineering and developer ergonomics.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Thapar Institute of Engineering & TechnologySpringdales School, IndiaMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Boston University Graduate School of Arts & SciencesMontfort Secondary School
Github Skills (6)
html10
css10
cs310
code-first8
fest7
javascript4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AM1CODES/Poke-Dex
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
This is a small webpage that allows user to add their favourite Pokémons! This project aims to help people in creating their first pull requests and participating in Hacktoberfest 2021
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Pranav primarily contributed to the user interface of the Pokémon-dex webpage. Their work involved adding and modifying Pokémon cards within the `index.html` file. They also fixed broken images and removed redundant entries, reflecting a focus on UI enhancements and maintaining data integrity. The user also reverted one of these changes, indicating an iterative development process.
first-pull-requestparticipatingcssjavascriptcss3
pranavgoyanka/Reddit-Musicbot
Apr 2019 - Oct 2021
A bot for Reddit that pulls up information about music and related stuff.
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 24 pushes in 2 years 6 months
musicbotreddit
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.