Summary
Pranav Ladkat is a Senior Research Engineer at Amazon with 11 years of experience building high-performance deep learning and distributed systems for Alexa’s speech recognition stack. He combines an academic foundation in mechanical engineering (SUNY Buffalo, University of Pune) with hands-on expertise in HPC, GPU acceleration, MPI/OpenMP, C++, and Python to optimize ML algorithms at scale. Across roles from software development to research engineering, he has focused on taking models from research into production-grade, resource-efficient implementations. Based in Seattle, he brings a practical systems mindset informed by earlier CFD and HPC work at ANSYS and Skytree, giving him a rare blend of simulation, algorithmic, and production deployment experience.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, GPA 3.74, Master's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, GPA 3.74 at State University of New York at Buffalo
Savitribai Phule Pune University