Summary
Pranay Pareek is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems across AI infrastructure, edge compute, and developer platforms. He specializes in Identity & Access Management, container orchestration, and making LLM workloads enterprise-ready by enabling private-cloud AI and agent frameworks. At VMware (and post-acquisition at Broadcom) he helped ship the Edge Cloud Orchestrator, VM rightsizing systems that reclaimed significant capacity, and integrations that brought enterprise identity to VR/XR devices. He balances deep systems design with developer-friendly, maintainable delivery, and has mentored engineers across levels while co-authoring patents tied to workload scheduling. Based in Palo Alto with an MS from NYU Courant, he blends startup agility from early-stage roles with enterprise impact on cloud-native platform engineering. An interesting thread through his career is repeatedly turning research-grade ideas (serverless FaaS, VM desired-state configuration) into production systems that unlock measurable operational value.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at New York University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science & Engineering at Manipal Institute of Technology