Pranay S. Patel

Full-Stack Software Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer

Backend-focused full-stack engineer with 4 years building scalable systems and enterprise integrations. Forward-deployed at clients, solving real problems in production. Leveraging AI-assisted tools (Claude Code, Cursor) for rapid delivery across stacks. Actively focused on Agentic AI and LLM engineering. Former professor.

Currently

Gupshup Technology 2022 — present

Senior Software Solution Engineer (Oct 2025 — present) · Software Solution Engineer (Jun 2022 — Sep 2025)

Forward-deployed engineer partnering directly with enterprise clients to design and deliver integrations for messaging and automation platforms (WhatsApp, Instagram, Web) handling millions of messages daily. Engineered fault-tolerant webhook pipelines with retry logic and async queues — reduced message delivery failures by 95%. Built analytics systems that cut manual reporting effort by 80%. Optimized server and database performance via query tuning and worker refactoring — 40% faster API responses, 30% lower infra load. Leading a team of 6 engineers.

Previously

BVM Engineering College 2017 — 2022

Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering

Taught OS, Web Tech, Cloud Computing to 1000+ students. Supervised ML/DL research projects. Led digital transformation of the institute during COVID.

Tata Consultancy Services 2017

Assistant System Engineer

SAP-BI dashboards and ETL pipelines.

Projects

Developer-first content publishing API. Versioned REST API for creating, scheduling, and managing content. Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis.

Temple Management Apps

Volunteer work for Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (Karelibaug & Kundaldham) - web applications for event and temple management using Next.js, Nest.js and GraphQL.

Mobile-first accountability platform for students and administrators in a residential hostel. React, Node.js, PostgreSQL.

RAG Chatbot

Retrieval-Augmented Generation chatbot integrating LLM-powered contextual retrieval for intelligent Q&A workflows.

Stack

languages Python, TypeScript, JavaScript
backend Node.js, Nest.js, Express, Django
apis REST, GraphQL, Webhooks
databases PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL
frontend React, Next.js, TanStack, Tailwind
devops Linux, Docker, Git, Jenkins, AWS

Education

M.E. Computer Engineering 2014 — 2016
B.E. Computer Engineering 2010 — 2014

GATE 2014 — AIR 2739 · GATE 2016 — AIR 5843