# Praveen Durairaju

> Forward Deployed Engineer | PromptQL | Solving for enterprise grade, accurate AI solutions

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

I am a Forward Deployed Engineer at PromptQL, working with Fortune 500 companies to deliver enterprise-grade, accurate AI solutions. With over a decade of full stack experience spanning Data Access (APIs/GraphQL) and recently AI, I bring deep expertise in building scalable, developer-friendly solutions that bridge cutting-edge AI with real-world enterprise needs.

Previously, I worked on the Zero-to-1 journey on the GTM side at Hasura, helping shape developer adoption, build community programs, and accelerate product growth through content and advocacy. My work has consistently focused on enabling developers through advocacy, education, and hands-on engineering to build powerful applications powered by data access workflows and AI agents.

## Work Experience
### Forward Deployed Engineer @ PromptQL
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Working with Fortune 500 companies to deploy enterprise grade, accurate AI solutions.

### Staff Developer Advocate @ PromptQL
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Working with the developer community in the AI space, enabling them to build AI apps powered by Agents / Data Access workflows.

### Developer Advocacy Content Manager @ PromptQL
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Hasura is an open-source high-performance engine for creating secure GraphQL APIs within minutes from your databases and data sources.

### Senior Developer Advocate @ PromptQL
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
I was responsible for driving organic growth / TOFU through content creation, community initiatives and closing the product feedback loop.

### Developer Advocate @ PromptQL
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Collaborated with the open-source community. Into GraphQL and Serverless architectures.

Primarily involved in Content Creation & Distribution in the form of Blogs, Videos, Livestreams, Developer Guides & Tutorials, Creating Sample Apps and strategising SEO.

### Application Engineer @ PromptQL
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Primarily worked on JavaScript/React.js for building developer facing user interfaces. Core contributor to hasura/graphql-engine OSS project.

### Full Stack Developer @ 34 Cross
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Chennai Area, India
34 Cross is a product development company, building applications on Hasura.

Roles & Responsibilities:
- Lead projects and Collaborate closely with clients for updates.
- Build reusable user interfaces using React.js.
- Expose REST API endpoints to web and mobile applications.
- Schema design for SQL database (PostgreSQL).
- Data migration from/to SQL-NoSQL or legacy databases.
- Full text search implementation using Elasticsearch / Algolia.
- Containerize applications using Docker and deployment to Cloud Providers (Kubernetes Cluster)
- Social Media Marketing.

### Blogger @ Tech Gadgets Web
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013
Actively administered TechGadgetsWeb.com, a Google News Approved Site, for over 3 years. 
Performed all the Maintenance, Optimisations, SEO, Social Media Promotion, Analytics and Blogging. Maintained Public Relations with Top PR Agencies of Nokia, Toshiba, Samsung, EA Sports, Silicon Power for Product Reviews.


## Education
### B.Tech in Computer Science
Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy

### SRV Matriculation Higher Secondary School

### Sri Akilandeswari Vidyalaya


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/praveenonweb
- Website: http://www.techgadgetsweb.com
- Website: http://www.metasastra.com
- Website: http://www.praveenweb.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-05