Pranika Kakkar
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, United States
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Top SchoolPranika Kakkar is a Software Development Engineer II with three years of experience building cloud-native backend services and deploying machine learning models at scale, currently based in Bengaluru and working at AWS. She has a strong track record of end-to-end backend development, contributing to high-impact projects like implementing a Recommission API in the open-source OpenSearch project. Her background spans production-grade cloud services, Alexa Location Services work in Java and AWS, and research in reinforcement learning for wildfire prediction where she generated 10,000+ training tensors and cut HPC computation time by 60%. Pranika bridges research and production, combining hands-on systems engineering with ML deployment and rigorous testing practices. She is actively seeking full-time roles that leverage her collaborative communication skills and curiosity for cutting-edge cloud and ML systems. An unusual strength is her experience converting complex geospatial simulations into scalable training datasets, reflecting both domain depth and practical optimization skills.
3 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Software Engineering at San José State UniversityHigh School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at St Francis De Sales School , New DelhiBachelor's of technology Electronics and Communications Engineering with a Minor in Economics, Bachelor's of technology Electronics and Communications Engineering with a Minor in Economics at Shiv Nadar University
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Github Skills (15)
javas10
cluster-api10
opensearch10
api10
backend10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
clustering10
java10
cluster-manager10
testing9
gradlew9
gradle9
analytics7
search-engine7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
opensearch-project/OpenSearch
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:168 reviews, 5 commits, 13 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Pranika's contributions primarily focus on backend service layer changes and implementing a Recommission API within the OpenSearch project. Their work includes modifications to the `DecommissionService` and related action classes to support the API functionality, including clearing voting config exclusions during the decommission process. The user also made changes to add a delay timeout functionality for the decommission request, and added supporting tests, demonstrating experience in developing cluster management features.
analyticsrestfulfosssearch-engineapache2
pranikum/OpenSearch
Jul 2022 - Aug 2023
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Contributions:2 PRs, 187 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 1 month
restfulsearch-enginemeilisearchelasticsearchsearch
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