# Pranav Batra

> Founding Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/pranavbatra

Resume

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Caldera
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Jump Trading LLC
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
-	Implemented crucial features to enhance the proprietary low-latency C++ software used to trade on cryptocurrency exchanges.
-	Built trading systems to trade on centralized exchanges via REST, WebSocket, FIX protocols.
-	Architected and implemented dynamic processor affinity selection to minimize thread access across distant NUMA nodes.
-	Designed and implemented custom protocols to trade on various cryptocurrency DEXs (e.g. Serum) via blockchain technology.
-	Improved the security of the trading systems by building API key management systems and low-latency distributed signing services.

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
-	Designed a Mojo interface for IPC communication between the Chrome web browser and Chrome operating system. Rewrote large chunks of the printing pipeline to use this interface.
-	Added support for hundreds of printers to Chrome OS, as well as features such as selecting the resolution to use for a print job.
-	Maintain the Chrome OS fork of CUPS, add features to the fork, and periodically push bug fixes upstream.
-	Added an extra caching layer to avahi for improved mDNS address resolution.
-	Rewrote, consolidated, and added integration tests for the printing pipeline. Reduced the size of test cases from dozens of lines of code per test case to a single line via parametrization and code generation.
-	Landed hundreds of code-reviewed commits containing tens of thousands of lines of C++, thousands of lines of Go, and hundreds of lines of bash and Python code to Chromium repos, and pushed dozens of bug fixes upstream to other open source projects.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Vanderbilt University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

### High School
The Harker School
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pranav-batra-388a5479

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Last updated: 2026-03-22