Pranay's Profound AI Rep
Meet Pranay. He's open to collaborating with founders and brainstorming with AI engineers.

Pranay Kothari
Experience
Currently working on NextHire, an AI-powered job application platform that evaluates resume-to-job fit using a pgvector-based RAG pipeline and cosine similarity, before human review. Stack includes Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma, OpenAI, Neon, and Vercel. Also built Linkup, a real-time community chat app with WebSocket-based architecture, role-based access control, and post upvoting. Completed a full security audit covering authentication, RBAC and BOLA vulnerabilities. Stack includes Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Prisma, and JWT. Open to remote Applied AI and Full Stack roles at early-stage startups.

Led CI/CD pipeline implementation and containerized deployment workflows, reducing release effort by 25–35% and improving deployment reliability across environments. Drove query optimization, indexing, and caching strategies across high-traffic modules, cutting average API and database response times by 20–30%.
Engineered a backend service handling 500K–1M+ daily requests with ~80–90% test coverage, ensuring reliability at scale. Built and shipped a reusable design systems using Material-UI and Shadcn reducing frontend development time by 20–30% and improving UI consistency across the product. Automated ML-related operational workflows, saving 20–30 engineering hours per month and reducing repetitive manual intervention. Collaborated across the stack using React, Node.js, Express and MySQL to ship production features in a fast-moving team environment.

