Pranjali Pokharel
Staff Engineer, AI at Valence
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolPranjali Pokharel is a Staff Engineer specializing in AI, backend architecture, and scalable data platforms with 11 years of experience building production data and ML-adjacent systems. She has led cross-functional teams and driven large-scale infrastructure initiatives across cloud environments (GCP, AWS), data pipelines, and distributed services, combining hands-on work in Python, FastAPI, Airflow and React with strategic technical direction. Her recent roles span senior engineering and management at Mercator.ai and Valence, where she architected backend platforms used across multiple services. She is passionate about building healthy engineering cultures, mentoring engineers, and enabling thoughtful technical collaboration. Outside of day-to-day engineering, she actively supports STEM outreach and inclusion efforts, bringing community-minded leadership to technical teams. An operator who moves fluidly between APIs, data infrastructure, and cloud architecture, she excels at turning complex system problems into reliable, scalable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Specialization, Computing Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Specialization, Computing Science at University of Alberta
English, FrenchGithub contributions (5)
pranner/tetris-react
Jan 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:4 reviews, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
SuperSheep18/307project
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes in 1 month
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