Pranav Saxena
Self Employed
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPranav Saxena is a Staff Software Engineer at Facebook Reality Labs with 13 years of experience building scalable distributed systems and pioneering AR/VR infrastructure. He was an early contributor to Apple Vision Pro’s platform and later led the 0->1 Spark AR Edge Cloud at Meta, growing his team from one to 30+ engineers while owning architecture, privacy-aware design, and cross-org product strategy. Pranav blends systems and research fluency—authoring multiple patents and driving industry-academia collaborations including funded work with Carnegie Mellon—to enable low-latency CV/ML, remote rendering, and immersive 3D calling. His background spans cloud and virtualization (Apache CloudStack, Docker, OpenStack), mobile/OS development, and languages from Go and Python to Swift and C++, with active open-source contributions to Apache CloudStack. As a consultant he has advised Fortune-tier clients on AR/VR, edge/cloud infrastructure, and GPU/datacenter strategy, reflecting a rare combination of hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and product-level vision.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster's degree, School of Computer Science, Master's degree, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University10th & 12th, Non-Medical, 10th & 12th, Non-Medical at Bhartiya Vidya Bhawans , Chandigarh
English, Hindi, Punjabi
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
ui-design10
apache-cloudstack10
uid10
front-end-development10
virtualization10
vmware9
java9
python9
javas9
orchestration9
orchestra9
xen8
kvm8
xserver8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cloudstack
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
Apache CloudStack is an opensource Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Pranav contributed to the UI and system-level aspects of the CloudStack platform. Their work included modifying UI scripts to add required fields for VMware datacenter configuration, and handling responses for VM scaling operations. They also addressed agent status display for system VMs and implemented the "scope" parameter in the primary storage installation wizard. Furthermore, the user made changes related to router VM scaling and network rule adjustments.
pythonapache-cloudstackxcp-nghostingcloud-computing
pranavs18/cattle
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:51 pushes, 3 branches in 29 days
terraforminfrastructureorchestrationdevops
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