Pranjal Kumar
Software Engineer III at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolPranjal Kumar is a Software Engineer III at Google with a decade of experience building performant backend systems and research-driven features, rooted in a BTech and Masters-by-Research in Computer Vision from IIIT Hyderabad. At Google he progressed from SDE II to his current role, applying production-grade engineering to large-scale services while drawing on earlier backend work in payment flows at Directi. His academic and research background includes contributions to computer vision labs and teaching, giving him a strong foundation in algorithms and systems thinking. An active open-source contributor, he improved the widely used nanoflann C++ kd-tree library—adding dynamic insertion/deletion and fixing core KD-tree bugs—demonstrating low-level performance tuning skills that complement his cloud-scale experience. Based in Sunnyvale, he blends research rigor with practical delivery, comfortable moving between algorithmic detail and production trade-offs. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces subtle implementation issues before they reach production.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Intermediate, 92.7%, Intermediate, 92.7% at City Montessori School, LucknowBtech + Masters by Research, Computer Vision, Btech + Masters by Research, Computer Vision at IIIT HyderabadHigher Secondary Education, 96%, Higher Secondary Education, 96% at St. John's School
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Github Skills (7)
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure10
file-handling6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jlblancoc/nanoflann
Mar 2016 - Aug 2017
nanoflann: a C++11 header-only library for Nearest Neighbor (NN) search with KD-trees
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:98 commits, 5 PRs, 6 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Pranjal primarily focused on improving the nanoflann library's functionality. They addressed and resolved issues related to the KD-tree implementation by modifying the include files to correct the bugs. They also added support for dynamic insertion/deletion and modified example files.
kd-treec-plus-plushierarchicalheader-only-librarycpp-library
pranjal-rai/nanoflann
Mar 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 105 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 6 months
cppnearest-neighborheadernearestheader-only
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