# Pranav Havanurkar

> Software Engineer at Doordash

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/pranavhavanurkar

I am a masters student at Arizona State University with concentration on machine learning and natural language processing. I've professional as well as research experience in computer science. My research work focuses on on developing novel data mining techniques and tools for structuring and organizing unstructured sources such as text, Web and social network data into semantic machine processable information.
I identify myself as a Back-End developer, and I've worked on technologies like Java, Python (Pandas,  Numpy), Javascript, ElasticSearch, PostgreSql, Cassandra, Spark, Spring, Tensorflow, MongoDB, Docker. ]
Besides coding, I love to read books, play soccer.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Data @ DoorDash
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Data Engineer @ Oak Street Health
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Data Engineer @ Revelio Labs
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Chandler, Arizona, United States

### Data Engineer @ Socure
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Chandler, Arizona, United States

### Data Engineer @ LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Chandler, Arizona, United States

### Data Engineer @ Emailage
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Chandler, Arizona

### Research Assistant @ Cognitive Information Processing Systems (CIPS) Lab, ASU
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Tempe, Arizona
•	Developed twitter bots which engage in conversations with people with different ideologies and created and maintained a database for developing new conversational systems using deep learning models (seq2seq). 
•	Developed and trained a classifier (LSTM) to classify users on twitter based on their views on the gun control issue using spark and python.
•	Maintained ETL pipeline for a stream of tweets, indexed data into Elastic Search, and developed new APIs using Flask which facilitated visualizations.
 •    Increased the efficiency of concept generalization algorithm by parallelizing it.

### Graduate Research Aide @ Cognitive Information Processing Systems (CIPS) Lab, ASU
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Phoenix, Arizona Area

### Software Development Intern @ IBM
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Pune Area, India
•Enhanced the IBM marketing products by adding new functionalities like new notification system, improved password validation system.
•Developed JSP and Servlets to add functionality to the IBM marketing product- Unica, based on customer requirements.
•Added new REST API calls to IBM distributed marketing software product which made the job of retrieving flowcharts for testing easier and reduced the overall time for testing by 2%.
•Assisted in a project which aimed at using IBM Watson APIs to add voice automated navigation of the marketing tool.
•Technologies used: Java, JSP, Javascript, Perforce, Agile, JDB, Swagger

### Project Intern @ Sokrati
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Pune Area, India
•	Developed a machine learning system/model using a CNN and Convolutional autoencoder to predict under what circumstances probability of a click for an online advertisement for a product is very high. 
•	Scraped ecommerce websites using Python to create a database of product images.
•	Improved the accuracy of detecting good images for advertisement by 20% by using the features found.


## Education
### Masters in Computer Science
Arizona State University

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science
Pune Institute of Computer Technology

### Fergusson College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pranav-havanurkar

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Last updated: 2026-03-29