Pranjal Paliwal
Founder at ShipSecAI
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolPranjal Paliwal is a polyglot full‑stack engineer and founder based in Dubai with 10 years of experience building production software and developer tools. He blends hands‑on systems and infrastructure work with mobile and backend development—contributing to well-known open‑source projects like xi‑editor (Rust) and multiple FOSSASIA Android apps. Pranjal has progressed from Google Summer of Code fellow to senior engineering and leadership roles (Headout, Persistence Labs) before founding ShipSecAI, demonstrating both individual contributor depth and team leadership. His open‑source contributions range from Android UI refinements to implementing hotword detection and websockets for a voice AI, showing a knack for integrating diverse technologies. Comfortable across Rust, mobile, and full‑stack stacks, he often surfaces pragmatic fixes that improve UX and developer ergonomics.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad
Github Skills (33)
ionice10
speech-to-text10
mobile-development10
python10
plugin-development10
text-to-speech10
websocket10
ionic10
app-dev10
android-development10
java10
mobile-application10
javas10
android10
android-ui10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
fossasia/susi_android
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
SUSI.AI Android App https://play.google.com/apps/testing/ai.susi
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:21 commits, 18 PRs, 180 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Pranjal primarily focused on developing and maintaining the SUSI.AI Android application. Their contributions include refactoring the application package, materializing the app by incorporating UI elements and fixing recycler adapter errors, adding web page preview support for links, and addressing copy, delete, and share functionalities for link messages. They also addressed issues in the login screen's password field and improved code for the cardviews.
testingandroidandroid-appgoogle-playandroid-application
fossasia/susi_linux
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Hardware for SUSI AI https://susi.ai
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 29 PRs, 1 push in 3 months
Contributions summary:Pranjal primarily contributed to the development of a voice-controlled AI assistant. They implemented core functionality by adding an install and run script, which involved setting up dependencies such as the Susi Python API Wrapper, speech recognition, and hotword detection. Further contributions included setting up a websocket server to facilitate communication with a web interface and providing GUI interface to the application. This work demonstrates a focus on integrating various technologies to create a functional and user-friendly AI assistant.
hardware
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