Summary
Pratik Devnani is a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience building high-performance backend systems, specializing in distributed architectures and database internals. He has a track record of turning complex, Kubernetes-dependent enterprise systems into lightweight, laptop-friendly runtimes—most notably enabling a single-container Community Edition with sub-10s startup and a 56% peak memory reduction. Comfortable across Java, Python, and cloud deployments, he’s solved production reliability crises including NVMe read-disturb diagnostics and remediation that restored cluster stability. Pratik is deeply curious about storage and query engine internals and is actively contributing or looking to contribute to open-source projects in the Iceberg/Parquet/Trino ecosystem. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a Master’s in Computer Science, he blends first-principles systems thinking with pragmatic engineering to deliver resilient, observable solutions. He thrives on challenges that push him to optimize trade-offs between performance, footprint, and operational simplicity.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Bhavans College
BE - Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, BE - Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College
English, Hindi, Marathi, Sindhi, Gujarati