Pranav Nadimpalli
Pranav Nadimpalli

Data & AI Engineer

Product Owner

Data Platform Engineer

Internal Tools Expert

Pranav Nadimpalli
Pranav Nadimpalli

Data & AI Engineer

Product Owner

Data Platform Engineer

Internal Tools Expert

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Hey there 👋

I build Agents, APIs and Data Platforms to eliminate organisational bottlenecks.

My work removes friction, reduces cloud & AI costs, and enables self-service.

Outside work, I write songs, go on long walks with my doggie, and read technical papers.

Testimonials
Pranav built our semantic layer and AI analyst, democratising our internal analytics function into self-serve on Slack. He consistently found high-leverage engineering bets that compounded in value across Wayground.
Sandeep Bantia
Sandeep Bantia
Senior VP of Technology, Wayground | Bengaluru, India
Pranav is a first-principles thinker. His technical contribution impacted the BrewRIGHT product across global zones, beyond his role. I recommend Pranav for any technical team aiming to transform their systems and processes.
Dheeraj Thimmaiah
Dheeraj Thimmaiah
Global Director - Compliance, ABInBev | Bengaluru, India
Pranav took quick ownership of the dashboards, APIs and real-time ad-streaming for Persona's product launch. His grounded approach to designing complex systems, and never-ending optimism made him a valuable asset as a founding engineer.
Sanjana Haribhaskaran
Sanjana Haribhaskaran
Co-Founder & CTO, Persona3.io | Remote
Pranav saved our lab hundreds of simulation hours/month by automating repetitive tasks. I appreciate his out-of-box thinking and impact.
Prof. Jon Spangenberg
Prof. Jon Spangenberg
Additive Manufacturing, DTU | Copenhagen, Denmark
Pranav is a diligent and creative researcher. He created a deep learning framework for optimising our image segmentation models, fulfilling our collaboration with Intel AI Lab
Prof. Ganapathy Krishnamurthi
Prof. Ganapathy Krishnamurthi
Medical Imaging CoE, IIT Madras | Chennai, India
Associated with
ABInBev
IIT Madras
Persona
DTU
Skills
  • BigQuery, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
  • FastAPI, Django, NestJS
  • Python, SQL, TypeScript
  • Apache Spark, Kafka, Airflow
  • Docker, Kubernetes, AI Agents
Experience
Senior Software Engineer - Data & AI Platform
Jan 2025 - Present
Senior Software Engineer - Data & AI Platform
Wayground (Formerly Quizizz)

• Built Waygent: Slack agents for self-serve analytics; automating analytics function in org
• Developed semantic layer to replace 20-person product/event analytics workflows
• Empowered 5K+ customers (1M MAU, $30M ARR) with premium analytics & automations
• Led once-in-decade migration of 1M+ org-user-customer models for sales<>product parity
• Cut annual query costs from $400K to $150K; formalized SQL queries to Dataform models
• Processed 100M+ daily events across gameplay and telemetry with Airflow+GBQ pipelines
• Supported leadership with L0, L1 Product/RevOps Health Dashboard for daily monitoring
• Maintained 48h SLA for diagnosing and resolving data parity and reporting issues

Co-Founder
Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
Co-Founder
Maniaroom Adventures (Rage Room)

Wearer of many hats; Tech, Product, Biz-dev, CX
Built an AI Co-Pilot for counsellors & psychologists - to elevate caregiving & erase stigma.

Founding Engineer (Backend, Data)
Jun 2023-Jan 2024
Founding Engineer (Backend, Data)
Persona3.io

Dashboards, APIs, Real-time ad-streaming at Web3's ad network.

Data Engineer - III
Jul 2021-Jun 2023
Data Engineer - III
Anheuser-Busch InBev

Spearheading all ETL and data quality for BrewRIGHT, an industry-first P2P compliance platform @ the world's largest beer company.

Research Scholar
Jul 2020-Jun 2021
Research Scholar
Medical Imaging CoE, IIT Madras

Developed state-of-the-art models for detecting cancer in brain MRI.

Deep Learning Engineer
Dec 2019-Jun 2020
Deep Learning Engineer
Predible Health

Improving radiologist workflow in cancer detection and diagnosis using deep learning.

Research Intern
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Research Intern
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU)

Automation of manual setup of metal-3D-printing flow simulations.

Education
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
2016-2021
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras

B.Tech in Engineering Design + M.Tech in Biomedical Engineering

Certificate
International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad
2021
International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad

Advanced Diploma in Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies

Certificate
Global Governance Initiative
2022
Global Governance Initiative

Impact Fellowship on Public Policy in India

Get in Touch
  • Email pranavn@alumni.iitm.ac.in
  • Phone +91 8610670588
  • Location Hybrid/Remote
  • Address Bengaluru, India
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