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Pradyumna Challa

Head of Platform & Backend @ Practo | Ex-Founder

Greater Bengaluru Area

7+ years of work experience

Practo
Jun 20265 mosPresent

Bengaluru

Drive engineering excellence across the organization, directing three distinct teams to execute the technical vision for core backend services and enterprise cloud infrastructure. Spearhead the development of new AI agent projects within the backend architecture, expanding system capabilities and driving product innovation. Own and optimize organization-wide infrastructure budgets, implementing scalable, cost-efficient cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle and Kubernetes environments.
Practo
Mar 20263 mosMay 2026

Bengaluru

Practo
Dec 20253 mosFeb 2026

EvolveDev
Oct 20241 yr 2 mosNov 2025

Bengaluru

Engineering productivity platform that empowers leaders to take data driven decisions.
Hiver
Dec 20221 yr 11 mosOct 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Khoros
Feb 202210 mosNov 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Khoros
Mar 20211 yr 1 moMar 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Khoros
Aug 20208 mosMar 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Softway
Aug 20182 yrsJul 2020

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Education

kl university

Master's degree, Computer Science

kl university

20122 yrs2014

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering

DMS SVH College of Engineering

20084 yrs2012

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Headline

Head of Platform & Backend @ Practo | Ex-Founder

About

Currently serving as Head of Platform & Backend at Practo, the core mandate is driving engineering excellence across three specialized teams. Focus centers on architecting highly resilient, multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle), aggressively optimizing large-scale cloud budgets, and spearheading backend AI agent initiatives that push product boundaries. The ultimate goal is building the foundational systems—and the collaborative cultures—that allow organizations to scale without friction. This leadership approach is built on 14 years of navigating both zero-to-one ambiguity and enterprise-scale complexity. The career trajectory spans the full spectrum of the tech ecosystem: bootstrapping companies from the ground up as a Founder and CTO, driving rapid DevOps transformations in mid-market tech, and engineering R&D solutions for a Fortune 100 enterprise. Bridging the gap between deep infrastructure and high-level product vision requires understanding the entire ecosystem. This non-linear progression has forged a distinct technical breadth, providing the exact blueprint for injecting startup velocity into corporate environments while building structural rigor into fast-moving teams.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

Work experience

Head of Platform & Backend at Practo, Jun 2026 - Present · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Drive engineering excellence across the organization, directing three distinct teams to execute the technical vision for core backend services and enterprise cloud infrastructure. Spearhead the development of new AI agent projects within the backend architecture, expanding system capabilities and driving product innovation. Own and optimize organization-wide infrastructure budgets, implementing scalable, cost-efficient cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle and Kubernetes environments.

Head of Platform ( B2B & B2C ) at Practo, Mar 2026 - May 2026 · 3 mos, Bengaluru

Head of Platform ( B2C ) at Practo, Dec 2025 - Feb 2026 · 3 mos

Co-Founder at EvolveDev, Oct 2024 - Nov 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Engineering productivity platform that empowers leaders to take data driven decisions.

Engineering Manager Devops at Hiver, Dec 2022 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead Operations Engineer at Khoros, Feb 2022 - Nov 2022 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Operations Engineer at Khoros, Mar 2021 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Operations Engineer III at Khoros, Aug 2020 - Mar 2021 · 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

DevOps Engineer at Softway, Aug 2018 - Jul 2020 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Education

Master's degree, Computer Science, kl university

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, DMS SVH College of Engineering