Pranali Gokhale

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Senior Engineering Manager at Mill Energy · Distributed databases · RocksDB, performance engineering

Mill Energy
Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
8+ years experience
Delhi Technological University
English, Hindi, Marathi
Advising
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Overview

Based in Mumbai. I lead distributed databases at Mill Energy. Reduced cloud spend on storage by 26% in two quarters. Most at home with Combine and Rust. I volunteer with a food bank on weekends.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on distributed databases
  • Working sessions on Combine
  • Questions about distributed databases
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Crypto token projects
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

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Skills
RocksDBCombineRustperformance engineering
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closes in 3 months

Office hours for students choosing a first job: distributed databases and Combine

Topics
distributed databases, Rust, RocksDB
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Paid
Capacity
A few async reviews a month
Best for
Teams scaling past 50 people

12 years of distributed databases. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

Mumbai, Indiacombinerustperformance engineering
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Mill Energy · 1 yr · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Wrote the performance engineering service that now handles 22 million requests a day.
    • Shipped 7 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
    • Led the migration of 47 services to RocksDB.
  2. Staff Software Engineer
    Jun 2023 - Jun 2025
    Deloitte · 2 yr · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Led the migration of 74 services to performance engineering.
    • Grew the storage team from 5 to 25 engineers.
  3. Software Engineer
    Jan 2022 - Jun 2023
    Salesforce · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Wrote the Rust service that now handles 83 million requests a day.
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 468ms to 89ms.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
    PhonePe · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 809ms to 44ms.
    • Shipped 19 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
  5. Software Engineer
    May 2018 - Feb 2020
    Groww · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 37% in two quarters.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 5.

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Education

  1. Delhi Technological University
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    2010 - 2014

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