# Pranav Kalvapalle

> Software Engineer

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

Mostly backend/infra software engineer with AWS experience. I enjoy improving developer experience, whether it be setting up formalized processes to improve code quality, deep diving into systems to reduce build times, or simply maintaining quality documentation. Used to write Python, now write Go, TS and YML.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Product @ Cruise
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024

### Software Engineer - Product @ ClearDATA - Secure. Healthcare. Cloud.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020
•	Architected and built a self-healing HIPAA compliant platform on AWS with Python, Go, Terraform and onboarded several healthcare companies on it
•	Constructed APIs and Go microservices for SaaS analytics and reporting dashboards
•	Set up automation to reduce manual intervention by Support

### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Pariveda Solutions
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
•	Shipped features in AngularJS and NodeJS to rebuild Gap Inc's supply chain
•       Reduced build pipeline execution time for the web app by 20% by analyzing redundancies
•       Increased project's unit test coverage for AngularJS by 30% using Jasmine
•       Migrated web app from Angular 1.4 to TypeScript using Webpack to reduce statically typed errors
•	Constructed a platform to identify future trends in industry using machine learning and data
visualization (D3) and won the annual internal competition at Gap Inc.

### Chemical Engineer (Process) @ AMEC
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Calgary, Canada Area
•	Sized pumps, pipes, valves, vents, gas and water distribution systems for a water recycling retrofit for an oilsands operation in Northern Alberta
•	Maintained AFT Arrow, Fathom and Aspen HYSYS models for distribution systems, with periodic reconciliation with mass balances

### Research Engineer @ Biofuel Research
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | University of Alberta
•	Conducted literature search and conceptualized an optimum process for conversion of biomass to liquid fuels
•	Created experimental pilot plant proposal to analyze composition of fuel from designed process

### Research Assistant @ Nanoparticle Research
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
• Co-author of research paper published in Soft Matter journal:
"String-like collective atomic motion in the interfacial dynamics of nanoparticles” – Hao Zhang, Pranav Kalvapalle and Jack F. Douglas, published in the Soft Matter Journal

• Generated data from running simulations to compute the melting temperature of nanoparticle at different molecular diameters
• Compared data to verify previously formulated model
• Tested different simulation models to find the one that fit the data best
• Presented information to supervisor at meetings


## Education
### BSc. Chemical Engineering in Engineering
University of Alberta

### Full Stack Software Engineering / Web Development in Computer Software Engineering
Hack Reactor


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pranavkalv
- Portfolio: https://medium.com/@pranav.89
- Portfolio: https://Prakal.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-30