Summary
Pranta Das is a veteran founder and technical leader based in San Francisco with over three decades of experience designing scalable transaction processing, distributed systems and enterprise networking software. As Founder & CEO of Das Coders he advises Fortune 500s and startups on performance, security, disaster recovery automation and DevOps, and previously drove product strategy and integrations at AppDynamics and SolarWinds. His career includes high-impact platform architecture work at Cisco and BlackBerry—designing multi-tenant control planes, QoS-driven cloud strategies and the Identity Services Engine—and early contributions to WebSphere and Sybase performance engineering. Pranta combines deep hands-on systems engineering (from kernel and DBMS internals to binary APM agents and IoT ports) with product management and go-to-market experience. He also manages a private investment fund with a strong long-term track record, reflecting a quantitative, risk-aware mindset beyond pure engineering. Colleagues know him for turning complex, high-scale requirements into pragmatic architectures and for publishing internal technical thought leadership that shaped company-wide integrations.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Physics Statistics (Honors) & Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics Statistics (Honors) & Mathematics at North-Eastern Hill University
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
St. Joseph's School, North Point, Darjeeling
English, Assamese, Hindi, German