Summary
Pratulya Bubna is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable data and platform systems, currently focused on Virtual Warehouses and platform infrastructure at Snowflake after several impactful roles on Salesforce’s Data Cloud and Genie teams. He blends production-grade backend engineering with hands-on machine learning research—ranging from computer vision and ASR to graph-based 3D point cloud work—bringing models from experimentation into practical applications. His background includes research at USC/ISI on geospatial semantic segmentation and internships at Mercedes-Benz R&D where he explored GNNs and synthetic data generation, demonstrating a knack for bridging research and product. A former instructor in ML and server-side Python, he’s comfortable mentoring and explaining complex topics while still being an autodidact who learns on the fly. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he’s pursuing AI-driven conversational systems that respect physical-world context, an interest that ties together his systems and perception work. Colleagues would note his rare combination of production-systems experience and deep ML tooling curiosity.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, 81.51%, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, 81.51% at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Hindi, English