# Pranav Harathi > Senior Software Engineer at Google Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/pranavharathi Email: s.pranav.harathi@gmail.com – GitHub: www.github.com/tinversenorm – Always looking to solve new problems ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Looker EngProd Serverless Containers - Optimized model loading for GPU-based AI workloads using OverlayFS (~200ms reduction), eBPF (~15% latency reduction), and model snapshotting - Analyze performance of competing internal Serverless products by running SQL queries and building Python notebooks to analyze overall latency distributions by customer - Help use this knowledge to build a roadmap for migrating from one product to the next - Target analysis data to identify specific performance improvements for the slower product - Implement a performance improvement that utilizes the new eBPF Linux kernel plugin technology to detect when an app is listening on a TCP port - Automate updates to Linux kernels used to power Cloud apps and integrate with experiment-based data analysis ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States Serverless Experiments - Design a better API for running experiments (A/B testing) on Cloud backend features - Improve performance of A/B testing code across all Google Cloud Serverless production code and reducing CPU usage by 33% (6% of all CPU -> 4% of CPU) by cleverly caching and reloading when needed - Design/implement new experiment types that allow tracing data across multiple services and coordinated experiments across multiple backend services - Migrate to new standard experimentation platform, give presentations to other teams and teach engineers across Serverless how to use the new platform ### Software Engineer @ Airbnb Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States CI Infra (May 2020-Jan 2022) - Designed and implemented a way to dynamically schedule jobs during execution of CI. Used by developers to significantly reduce AWS cost and reduce time to merge code. - Created an Airflow metrics pipeline to collect data on all unit and integration tests at Airbnb. Used to measure impact of integration testing and reduce defects. - Implemented system to identify and notify teams for each flaky unit and integration test via Slack and JIRA - Designed and implemented a UI with Figma and React to search for unit tests and view past successes/failures - Integrated with Bazel to allow disabling of flaky unit tests and consumption of test results from Bazel Build Event Protocol Tax Platform (Jan. 2019 - Apr 2020) - Worked on improving scalability and performance of a platform to calculate taxes - Reduced latency by 50% on some critical paths and developed model to gracefully respond to extremely high load - Designed and implemented a framework to schedule and execute cron integration tests ### Teaching Assistant @ The University of Texas at Austin Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Austin, Texas Area TA for Algorithms, Software Lab, and Software Design - Graded assignments - Wrote exam questions - Led discussion sections and went over exams with students - Tutored students 1:1/ Held office hours ### Software Engineering Intern @ Airbnb Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, Washington Trust Tools - Developed a backend for consuming and storing different types of messages written by agents working on fraud cases - Integrated backend system with multiple teams ### Cloud Storage Intern @ IBM Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Austin, Texas Area Cloud Storage Team - Created script for parsing and retrieving all logs for a specified date range - Ran data analysis on these logs using regression and decision trees to correlate factors such as customer usage over time and by storage type - Built a dashboard using Plotly and Jupyter notebook to view usage of different storage types ### Teaching Assistant @ The University of Texas at Austin Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Austin, Texas TA for Intro to Electrical Engineering, which covers basic circuit theory and practical Electrical Engineering lab skills. ### Software Development Intern @ Dun & Bradstreet Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Austin, Texas Area ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Engineering Honors Program, Computer Engineering The University of Texas at Austin Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pharathi --- Source: https://flows.cv/pranavharathi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/pranavharathi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22