Pranay Prakash
Technical Project Lead at South Park Commons
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPranay Prakash is a technical project lead and former founder with 11 years of experience building and scaling developer-facing systems and AI products from San Francisco. He founded and led Windsor (YC W19), an AI video personalization platform acquired by Front, and has since helped establish Front’s AI foundations while advising early-stage startups. At Vercel and during a Facebook/Relay internship he contributed to core open-source projects and production infrastructure—work that includes improving pagination and stability in Relay and enhancing Vercel’s deployment and HTTP/2 support. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering, DevOps, and product-led leadership, and is known for “organic handcrafted code” and a knack for making complex systems reliable and observable. An early ZEIT employee and member of South Park Commons, he pairs startup grit with a track record of shipping high-impact engineering solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Windsor, Windsor at Y CombinatorIndian School Al GhubraComputer Science Minor in Art + Design, Computer Science Minor in Art + Design at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hindi, Chinese
Stackoverflow
368reputation
20kreached
14answers
10questions
Github Skills (31)
relay10
javascript10
vercel10
animation10
testing10
http10
gradient10
relayer10
react10
k10
wpgraphql9
wordpress-graphql9
nodejs9
graphql9
code-coverage9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
vercel/vercel
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
Develop. Preview. Ship.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 39 commits, 22 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Pranay primarily focused on improving the performance and functionality of the `vercel/vercel` repository. Their contributions included implementing a faster array-unique implementation and adding comments to the new array-unique implementation. They also worked on enhancing the system's architecture by adding support for HTTP/2 and improving the deployment process. Furthermore, they contributed to the command and deploy functionality.
hostingshipcloudcommandjamstack
sarcadass/granim.js
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Create fluid and interactive gradient animations with this small javascript library.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 16 days
Contributions summary:Pranay contributed to the Granim.js library by setting up testing infrastructure using Karma and code coverage tools. They also implemented an error check, improving the library's robustness. Furthermore, the user focused on UI aspects of the project, contributing to the display and functionality of the animated gradients.
javascript-libraryanimationgradientsfluidjavascript
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