📧 Email: pbanavara@gmail.com
📞 Phone: 510-695-5628
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🚀 Professional Experience
🏋 Callindra (March 2024 - Present)
Founder
- Developed an iOS app for an AI workout coach.
- Quantized a YOLO model to ONNX and optimized it for 30+ fps performance on iOS.
🛒 Walmart Global Tech (September 2021 - March 2024)
Distinguished Software Engineer
- Led a $3B E-commerce team and streamlined distributed systems.
- Pioneered an LLM-based grocery shopping experience.
🏢 Aerospike (March 2020 - September 2021)
Principal Architect
- Designed and optimized distributed NoSQL deployments across APAC.
- Saved customers over $10-15M through data model optimization.
🎁 Epic.one (June 2019 - February 2020)
Consultant Head of Engineering
- Built a new team for a rewards app.
- Launched a beta prototype in under 6 months.
🔍 Quantomaly (April 2018 - June 2019)
Founder
- Developed an anti-money laundering system using distributed graphs.
🔎 CustomerXPS (June 2017 - February 2018)
Head of Engineering, AI
- Customized GPU-powered anomaly detection algorithms for fraud detection.
🤖 Vorta.io (June 2016 - June 2017)
Co-Founder
- Trained a CNN-based fall detection model for elder care facilities.
🤝 Zenviron (2015 - 2016)
Co-Founder
- Created an MVP for Emily, an AI executive assistant.
- Trained an SVM with Stanford NLP libraries for meeting management.
📊 Tookitaki (2014 - 2015)
Head Of Engineering
- Led an 8-person team to develop APAC’s first AI-driven marketing insights platform.
- Achieved Facebook partnership status.
💡 Microsoft Accelerator (2012 - 2014)
CTO-in-Residence
- Launched and led 2 startup cohorts per year for Microsoft’s accelerator.
💾 ARRIS (2000 - 2010)
Software Engineer
- Early engineer at Alopa (acquired by ARRIS).
- Led $10M deployments across North America.
🎓 Education
University of San Francisco (August 2024 - June 2025)
📖 Master’s in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Kuvempu University (1995 - 1999)
📖 Bachelor of Engineering