Praveen Pandey is a technology leader and Vice President at Morgan Stanley with 11 years of experience building full‑stack solutions and driving automation in the financial sector. Over seven years at Morgan Stanley he advanced from Associate to VP, blending hands‑on development, Kanban-led delivery, and tooling like Jenkins, CI pipelines and shell scripting to boost efficiency and reliability. He has a strong background in test framework automation — contributing backend fixes and utilities to the notable open-source Avocado testing framework, including SELinux and Linux kernel utilities. Known for shipping pragmatic automation and CI improvements, he focuses on turning complex operational needs into maintainable tooling and measurable business outcomes. Based in Mumbai, he combines engineering craftsmanship with team leadership to foster innovation under regulatory and performance constraints.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology at Priyadarshini Institue of Engineering and Technology
Avocado is a set of tools and libraries to help with automated testing. One can call it a test framework with benefits. Native tests are written in Python and they follow the unittest pattern, but any executable can serve as a test.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:131 reviews, 101 commits, 167 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Praveen primarily contributed to the `avocado` test framework by implementing new utilities and fixing existing ones. Their work included adding functions to determine CPU information, disk utilities, and utilities related to Linux kernel modules and dmesg. They also addressed bugs related to the framework's interaction with system distributions and improved code style, ensuring adherence to PEP8 standards. Furthermore, the user refactored code to improve consistency and introduced utilities for interacting with SELinux.
Contributions:48 reviews, 19 commits, 51 PRs in 5 years 10 months
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