# Priyanka Pulikeshi

> Software Engineer / Statistics and Data Science at UC Santa Barbara

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Velaura AI
Jan 2025 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States
- Shipped customer-facing web product features across React and Node.js, delivering dashboard/navigation workflows and integrating UI with backend APIs; debugged client/server issues using Postman, MongoDB Compass, and browser DevTools.
- Built data-heavy React workflows (tables/forms) with reusable state patterns, route-aware persistence, and performant data fetching/caching.
- Designed and implemented upgradeable Solidity smart contracts (ERC-20 standard with role-based controls) and built a Hardhat automation suite (~80+ scripts) for deployment, upgrade/rollback validation, and multi-network testing.
- Led evaluation and integration of secure transaction execution and signing infrastructure (MPC + multisig approval patterns), validating distributed key generation/signing and reliability under failure scenarios; delivered a technical recommendation.
- Built webhook-based blockchain event ingestion into MongoDB, handling event decoding/normalization and idempotent, retry-safe processing; authored technical documentation and demo materials for internal stakeholders.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Auradine
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Santa Clara, California, United States
- Developed customer-facing React.js features and UI workflows, collaborating with engineering/design to implement clean, maintainable components.
- Integrated frontend workflows with Node.js APIs, validating request/response handling and data consistency using Postman and MongoDB Compass.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Auradine
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Santa Clara, California, United States
- Built extensive Node.js API unit tests using Mocha/Chai, creating mock data to validate routing and request/response behavior across core backend endpoints.
- Debugged backend issues and verified API correctness with Postman, inspecting stored data and edge cases using MongoDB Compass.

### Math tutor @ Students of Strength
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Online
- Tutored middle school and high school students from around the country, specifically in math subjects like Algebra and Calculus as well as Physics

### Administrative Assistant @ RC Blackwell's Tax Service
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Santa Clara, California, United States
- Data entry and organization of documents through secure file sharing software platforms
- Helped facilitate communication between client and staff
- Created and managed the firm’s Instagram account


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Statistics and Data Science
UC Santa Barbara

### High School Diploma
Los Gatos High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/priyanka-pulikeshi-b47a611b6

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Last updated: 2026-04-10