# Pranav L.

> Engineering @ Paypal

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

Top Skills include, but are not limited to: 
• Software Engineering
• Product Development
• Strategy
• Team Leadership
• Data Analytics
• Collaboration

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2025 – Present

### Investment Partner @ A26 Ventures
Jan 2025 – Present | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
A26 is a student-backed and operated early-stage fund supporting entrepreneurship at UCLA. Our student-operators and investors combined resources to raise an early-stage fund and invest the start-ups built by our most exceptional peers. We’re investing $25k - $50k per company!

### Senior Software Engineer @ Mixhalo
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Led a team to build out new AI/ML focused architecture that was API-centric, automate infrastructure deployment, allowing for faster onboarding of customers by 70%
• Achieved cost reductions in infrastructure by 30% and redesigned the company’s primary software to ensure future scalability, resilience; enhancing overall system robustness
• Designed and implemented an AI powered translation system capable of converting spoken English into a chosen language, delivering seamless, end-to-end translations for 100K+ users in real-time
• Stack: Ansible, Terraform, AWS (EKS, ECR, EC2, API Gateway, Sagemaker, etc), Python (Flask Framework), Go, React, Neo4j, Postgres, Influx
• https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvLMt_FgwpJ/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

### Software Engineer / Technology Consultant @ SAP
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Software Engineer worked on BPM / Rules Engine product development available on SAP Business Technology Platform
• Providing expertise to the strategic program “Project Thunder”, which aims to provide customers guidance on migrating their landscape to the cloud. As well as enabling our workforce on the cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba)
• Helping Lead enablement program “10 Steps to SAP S/4HANA” for customers across the Americas, & globally for SAP employees
• Automating deployment of infrastructure, SAP HANA database, & SAP ECC systems on SAP’s internal cloud computing platform (Converged Cloud OpenStack) using python
• Automating SAP HANA database backups to the cloud & creating error detection tools (i.e. deadlocks) with python
Data Science Fellowship: 
• Developed ML / DL models focused on uplift, down-sell, product usage analysis for SAP Cloud Portfolio
• Retained $70 million in contracts within 3 months of launch for 3 major industries (Retail, Automotive, and Government)
• Built an AI/ML-focused architecture, including a knowledge graph, to integrate and analyze data from multiple sources,
enabling usage prediction, pattern detection, and targeted sales strategies that increased customer retention by 10%.
• Usage Explorer is part of SAP.io’s and CreateX startup incubator, Hasso Plattner Innovation award Finalist 2020

### Associate Software Engineer @ Infosys
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
• Delivered scalable & high-performance software to customers & provided modern tools & feature enhancements for products
• Created web-based portal to efficiently manage day-to-day operations at a computer store to provide cost efficient solutions

### Intern Finance/Accounting @ Stanford Children's Health | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Menlo Park, California
• Analyzed and calculated future values of restricted assets & pledged donations (properties, stocks, cash) 
• Built Excel recording system to manage $100 million of assets, increasing efficiency & access to funds 
• Entered financial transactions into PeopleSoft general ledger system

### Teaching Practicum @ UC Santa Cruz
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | University of California, Santa Cruz
• Prepared and led weekly discussions with over thirty students that reinforced class lectures.
• Responsible for grading student’s exams and homework and holding midterm/final exam review sessions

Course: Economics of Accounting (Financial Accounting) Teaching Assistant

### Tennis Instructor @ City of Milpitas ( Tennis with BarryPoole.net)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Milpitas California
• Coach young kids (Age 6-12) to play tennis
• Provide inputs to parents of kids for feedback about their progress

### Tennis Instructor @ City of Fremont
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Fremont California
• Coach young kids (Age 6-12) to play tennis
• Provide inputs to parents of kids for feedback about their progress


## Education
### Master of Business Administration - MBA in Finance, Entrepreneurship
UCLA Anderson School of Management

### Master of Science - MS in Software Engineering
San José State University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Technology and Information Management
Baskin Engineering at UCSC

### Minor in Economics
University of California, Santa Cruz

### High School
Mission San Jose High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-01