Summary
Pranshu Kharkwal is a software engineer with nine years of experience who blends product-minded backend development with cloud-scale systems expertise, currently at Microsoft’s Azure Storage team. An IIT Mandi alum, he cut his teeth in open source through Google Summer of Code for the Linux Foundation and has shipped production features at startups (stories and audiorooms at Clubmate) as well as automated data-onboarding and cataloging systems at Alphaa AI. He co-founded UpCycle to tackle real-world connectivity problems for remote campuses, demonstrating both entrepreneurial grit and a focus on impact. Comfortable across Python, Node.js and large-scale testing frameworks, he’s known for improving developer workflows and automating tedious pipelines. Outside work he follows startups, markets and current affairs, often bringing that broader context into product decisions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Class 12 (CBSE) Science and Mathematics, Class 12 (CBSE) Science and Mathematics at DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL SRESHTHA VIHAR DELHI-110092
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi