Pranav Ravichandran
Staff Software Engineer at Crusoe
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPranav Ravichandran is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Jose with 15 years of experience building backend systems, developer tools, and cloud-native platforms across startups and large tech firms. He blends hands-on engineering and product thinking—having led R&D and interim engineering teams at Chainalysis and driven foundation/tools work at LinkedIn—while currently focusing on IAM and cloud customer experience at Crusoe. His open-source contributions include backend and CI/CD work on the well-known screwdriver-cd project, reflecting practical DevOps and testing expertise. Comfortable shipping APIs, scalable services, and integrations, he brings a track record of improving developer platforms and observability in production environments. Notably, his early open-source and research roots (Mozilla, Google Summer of Code) reveal a longtime commitment to tooling and developer experience that informs his pragmatic leadership.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary, Higher Secondary at Dayananda Anglo Vedic SchoolBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at St.Joseph's College of Engineering, Anna UniversityMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of Florida
English
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
api10
apidoc10
cicd10
continuous-integration9
continuous-delivery9
nodejs8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
screwdriver-cd/screwdriver
Mar 2018 - Jan 2019
An open source build platform designed for continuous delivery.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 16 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Pranav primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the "screwdriver-cd" project, focusing on API endpoint creation for features like deleting templates and commands. They implemented and tested these API endpoints, demonstrating a solid understanding of the project's architecture and backend logic. Furthermore, the commits reveal involvement in the testing infrastructure, specifically utilizing testing frameworks and mock objects. The changes also touched upon the CI/CD pipeline, by altering how the badge status is being generated, which indicates contributions to DevOps related tasks within the repository.
apidevopsjavascriptcontinuousdocker
pranavrc/tenor
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
Generating accessible music with Clojure and Overtone (and a primer in Music theory).
Contributions:130 commits, 125 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
primeraccessibletheorymusicclojure
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