Pranay Suresh | SpeakerHub

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Bio

I strive to improve the world around me by solving important and hard problems using Engineering, Data, and Product. An adaptable and focused individual with 8 years of experience in full-stack development and architecture, prototyping->scale, root cause analysis, secure software development, regulatory compliance. I enjoy systemic thinking using first principals, scientific method and modular reuse. I love teamwork, leading by example, mentoring, motivating and growing team members, recruiting top talent.

I've worked on electric vehicles, adjacent green tech, cryptocurrency, fintech, mentored many startups and lived and breathed silicon valley for the last decade.

Next decade is all about sharing and teaching. Speaking is my way to spread ideas and experiences. I speak about sustainability, cars, electric vehicles, self-driving vehicles, cryptocurrency, online shopping, economy, organization science, startups, entrepreneurship, distributed systems and many more topics.

Through my various roles and jobs, I've learned that

* Who you are is far more important than what you do

* Reputation, time and money are precious resources

* Reflect daily and often

* Speed and ego are best avoided

* It's okay to say: I don’t know, I changed my mind. Be shameless, ask for help

* Surround yourself with the best people, best people should want to work with you

* Be immensely curious about how and why things work. Curiosity=Intelligence

* Habitually simplify

* Embrace your idiosyncrasies and celebrate them in others

If any of this resonates with you and you'd like to join forces please don't hesitate to reach out to me directly. I'm always happy to chat over email or coffee.

Degrees (1)

Computer Science

Georgia Institute of Technology

2010 to 2012

Presentations

Presentations (3)

Unittest AsyncMock

Talk about mocking async methods in different versions of Python

Event Driven Architecture

Event-driven architectures have gained popularity in the last few years. There are many tools out there in the open-source and AWS worlds to make event-driven architectures easier to implement and maintain. In this talk, we will cover the what, why and how of event-driven systems. We will go over different scenarios where event-driven systems shine and talk about the different tools to build these architectures in production. By the end of the session, you will understand some key principals and be armed with the right questions to ask as you build event-driven systems for your use cases.

Fullstack Engineering Mistakes to Avoid

I've been a full-stack developer in silicon valley from 2010-2020. In this talk, we will go over the top 10 lessons I've learnt in the past decade. Specifically, go over technologies/architectures that have evolved (some for the better, some worse) and some age-old principles that have proven timeless. We will go over different parts of the stack (frontend, backend, infrastructure). We will end by looking into what's to come in the future. By the end of this talk, you will walk away with some key mistakes to avoid, best-practices to follow and things to look for in the future.