Pranav Shah
Staff Software Engineer at bp
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolPranav Shah is a Staff Software Engineer based in Pune with 11 years of experience building full‑stack web and embedded software across startups and enterprise teams. He’s strong in JavaScript and WordPress ecosystems, having contributed front‑ and back‑end improvements to popular themes like Activello and Sparkling, including WooCommerce integration and Customizer-driven UX enhancements. Across roles at Sibros, Katerra, TIBCO and bp he’s delivered production-grade features, performance fixes and cross‑team integrations, often bridging frontend polish with backend reliability. With an academic background in bioinformatics, he brings analytical rigor to software problems and a history of tackling both UI nuance and system-level complexity. Notably, his open‑source work reflects a pragmatic focus on usability and extensibility rather than just novelty.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Bioinformatics at Christ College, RajkotMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Bioinformatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Bioinformatics at Sardar Patel University
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (11)
theme-development10
wordpress10
css10
woocommerce10
php10
javascript10
bootstra10
front-end-development10
customisation10
bootstrap10
html9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ColorlibHQ/Activello
Nov 2015 - May 2016
WordPress Bootstrap blog theme with doeznes of options using WordPress Customizer
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 10 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Pranav contributed extensively to the Activello WordPress theme, focusing on both front-end and back-end aspects. Their work included implementing new features related to layout customization, integrating with WooCommerce, and improving the user interface through options in the WordPress Customizer. They also addressed bug fixes and spacing issues, ensuring a polished and functional theme. Furthermore, they worked on integrating social media features and optimizing the theme's structure.
bootstrap-wordpresswordpresswordpress-themecustomizeroptions
ColorlibHQ/Sparkling
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
WordPress Bootstrap 3 theme with dozens of options powered by WordPress Customizer
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 6 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Pranav primarily focused on the front-end development of a WordPress theme. The commits show changes to CSS, JavaScript, and PHP files, suggesting a focus on styling, layout, and theme customization options. Specifically, the user added customizer options, implemented WooCommerce support, and fixed sticky post bugs.
bootstrap-wordpressbootstrap-3wordpresscsswordpress-theme
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.