# Pravan Kalaga

> Software Engineer at Place Exchange

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/pravan

I am currently looking for an L4 position or equivalent in a mostly backend engineer focused position. I am located in the Bay Area and would be looking for Hybrid positions in the area, or fully remote positions.

Alternatively, am open to moving to NYC for onsite or hybrid positions

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Place Exchange
Jan 2024 – Present

### AI Trainer @ Scale AI
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Evaluated code generated by LLMs, grading them on Security, Correctness, and Efficiency of the code
Reviewed other trainers’ evaluations of LLMs and analyzed feedback and provided potential improvements
Wrote complex code for LLMs to evaluate and build off of and graded them on Correctness and Optimization

### Software Engineer @ Udemy
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
- Created Spark + databricks backend to attribute affiliates for advertising / pushing the new product Udemy Subscriptions and pay them out accordingly
- Used Spark/Scala to analyze purchases and attribute them to the correct affiliate for payout purposes
- Enabled Server Side GTM container to remove javascript tags from our front end GTM Container
- Headed Dynamic Affiliate Commission project, where we payout affiliates for ads based on the kinds of users they bring in
- Migrated Databricks jobs to airflow dags for GDPR Compliance

### Software Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California
- Achieved top performance bonuses at end of year 2019 and mid year 2020.

- Drove discussions and implemented improvements to latency and performance, resulting in a reduction in latency by over 50% for my service

- Worked on the PayPal Shopping team and delivered services to allow merchants and customers to use Paypal exclusive reward programs, driving millions to shop through PayPal

- Owned and maintained up to 8 services simultaneously which drove tens of millions of transactions to take place through PayPal daily

### Head Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
•	A TA for CS 3600, or Intro to Artificial Intelligence, is well versed in the concepts taught by the class such as informed search, constraint satisfaction problems, Bayesian networks, Markov decision processes, decision trees, and neural networks
•	Provides students with the means to succeed by holding office hours and responding to questions online through piazza
•	The Head TA coordinates meetings and communication with the professor as well as time schedules for the TAs to make sure that there is at least one member of the team available to help students at any given time

### Teaching Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
•	A TA for CS 3600, or Intro to Artificial Intelligence, is well versed in the concepts taught by the class such as informed search, constraint satisfaction problems, Bayesian networks, Markov decision processes, decision trees, and neural networks
•	Well versed in python syntax
•	Provides students with the means to succeed by holding office hours and responding to questions online through piazza

### Software Engineer Internship @ Virtustream
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Atlanta Area
A Dell Internship working on the Core Services team

•	Modified and added functionality on an automated authentication server following OAuth 2.0 and UMA protocols
•	Created backwards compatibility for previous api versions of the server
•	Used and created docker images for local testing before deployment in a Kubernetes Pod
•	Modified Kubernetes Helm Charts for deployment
•	Made sure server followed RESTful API constraints
•	Worked with GitHub for version control
•	Used Java and Maven as the base of the project

### Produce Assistant @ King Soopers/City Market
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Aurora, CO
Worked at the super market as a Produce Assistant. Demonstrated strong work ethic, communication, and collaboration skills as part of the job function. Responsibilities include: 
- Preparing and stocking produce shelves. 
- Manage deliveries, unload trucks. 
- Interact with customers and help them choose right supplies. 
- Work as a team to keep the produce on display fresh and stocked as much as possible


## Education
### Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018

### High School Diploma in Core classes
Grandview High School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-01