Pranit Bauva
Software Engineer
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolPranit Bauva is a software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building product-focused backend systems and developer tooling from Mumbai. He has shipped customer-facing fintech infrastructure like Setu’s industry-first Reverse Penny Drop and production chatbots and automation at Carousell, pairing deep technical execution in Go and cloud-native stacks with hands-on customer conversations. An active open-source contributor, Pranit has contributed test automation and shell-script-to-C refinements to the canonical git repository (git/git), improving command behavior and performance across platforms. He founded Nirah and writes candid annual reports on product decisions and outcomes, reflecting a rare blend of operator transparency and product empathy. Pranit also invests exclusively in public equities, bringing an investor’s lens to product economics and unit-level profitability. Trained at IIT Kharagpur, he combines systems-level engineering rigour with a knack for reducing technical debt and shipping durable, high-margin products.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Degree in Engineering, Dual Degree in Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurHigh School Science, High School Science at Mithibai College of Arts Chauhan Institute of Science and A.J. College of Commerce and Economics
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Github Skills (12)
sh10
git10
script10
shell10
scripting10
testing10
c119
c179
java6
syntax-highlighting6
swing6
fest5
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
git/git
Mar 2016 - Sep 2021
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:53 commits, 44 PRs, 18 comments in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Pranit primarily contributed to the Git source code repository by writing and modifying shell scripts used for testing. They added and improved test coverage for various Git commands, focusing on option parsing and command-line behavior. Their contributions included creating and modifying test scripts, fixing style issues in existing tests, and ensuring the tests accurately reflected and covered changes made to the underlying C code. The user also worked on improvements in the commit verbosity and the behavior of the commit and status commands.
hacklanggit-clientmercurialfollowlibgit2
pranitbauva1997/pranitbauva1997
Jul 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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