Pranav Amol Kulkarni

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Director of Engineering at Bajaj Finserv | ex-Samsung R&D

Bajaj Finserv
Ahmedabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
Symbiosis International University
English, Hindi, Gujarati
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Overview

Director of Engineering at Bajaj Finserv, focused on web frontends. Cut the main bundle by 62% and got LCP under 1.1 seconds. Before that: Samsung R&D and Goldman Sachs. Most at home with TypeScript and GraphQL.

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Skills
ReactCSSaccessibilityTypeScriptGraphQLNext.js

Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Jan 2026 - Present
    Bajaj Finserv · 9 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Brought on-call pages for web down from 38 a week to 1.
    • Wrote the Next.js service that now handles 52 million requests a day.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 21 minutes to under 4.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Jan 2023 - Nov 2025
    Samsung R&D · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.
  3. Frontend Engineer
    Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
    Goldman Sachs · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Cut the main bundle by 57% and got LCP under 2.6 seconds.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2017 - Apr 2020
    Boston Consulting Group · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on web by 30% in two quarters.
    • Cut the main bundle by 56% and got LCP under 2.3 seconds.
  5. Staff Frontend Engineer
    Nov 2014 - Mar 2017
    Dream11 · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Wrote the React service that now handles 77 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. Symbiosis International University
    BBA, Computer Engineering
    2001 - 2005

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