Pranav Kulkarni is a Director of Engineering with 15+ years of experience building and scaling AI-first, cloud-native SaaS platforms and multi-tenant enterprise systems. He has led Velotio’s platform and GenAI practices from inception, architecting 15+ products that drove $30M+ revenue and production GenAI services used by over a million users quarterly. Technically hands-on across Ruby on Rails, Python, Node.js and vector DBs like Pinecone, he designed prompt engineering and RAG frameworks that delivered up to 93% accuracy improvements and 3–5x performance gains. He’s repeatedly transformed legacy DevOps into platform engineering, cutting onboarding time by 40% and enabling deployments at 5x frequency while supporting systems that processed $2.8B in indirect revenue growth. A founder at heart, Pranav scaled teams from single digits to 100+ engineers, embeds rigorous ADRs and CI/CD practices, and champions production readiness for multimodal and agentic AI systems. Notably, his early work in high-performance scientific and gaming systems underpins a rare blend of research-grade optimization and product-focused delivery.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering at Walchand College of Engineering(A Govt. Aided Autonomous Institute),SANGLI-M.S
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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Pranav Kulkarni - Director Of Engineering at Velotio Technologies