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title: "Pranay Venkat Battu - Software Engineer II in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Pranay Venkat Battu, SDE II @Wayfair | Backend | CSE @NIT Rourkela ’22 | Ex - ZEE5 OTT based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and cursor. Explore public work links including github and codeforces."
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# Pranay Venkat Battu on Tal

## Headline

SDE II @Wayfair \| Backend \| CSE @NIT Rourkela ’22 \| Ex \- ZEE5 OTT

## About

I'm a Software Engineer with 4 years of experience building scalable, high\-performance distributed systems\. Core stack: 🔹 Java, Spring Boot, Python, FastAPI, NodeJS, Microservices, REST APIs, Graphql 🔹 Data Systems: Postgres, MSSQL, MongoDB, Redis, ScyllaDB, Elasticsearch, Aerospike, Kafka 🔹 Cloud & Analytics: GCP, AWS, BigQuery, MixPanel 🔹 Platform & Observability: Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, Splunk 🔹 AI tools: Cursor, Claude code, Devin, Glean, MCPs Professional Background: 🔹 Role: Software Engineer II 🔹 Company: Wayfair 🔹 Teams: Product Grouping Past Experiences: 🔹 Role: SDE 🔹 Company: Zee Tech & Innovation \(OTT\) 🔹 Teams: Engagement & Loyalty \+ Core Services, Linear What I Do: 🔹 Designing and building distributed backend systems for high traffic applications 🔹 Implementing search, caching, streaming, and analytics pipelines 🔹 Improving system performance, reliability, and system observability 🔹 Data modeling, API design, backend architecture, infrastructure optimisations 🔹Collaborating with product and business Why I Love What I Do: The dynamic nature of software development keeps me engaged\. Every day, I learn something new, whether it's a coding technique, a design pattern, or a better way to optimize performance\. I thrive on continuous improvement and enjoy sharing along the way\. I believe in being a strong generalist with the ability to delve deeply into technical skills as required\. Always looking for ways to improve my technical skills to solve business problems\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

langchain

langgraph

Devin

## Work experience

Software Engineer II at Wayfair, Aug 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Building systems that make wayfair suppliers' flows simpler and efficient\!

SDE 1 at ZEE \- Technology & Innovation, Nov 2023 \- Jul 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bangalore Urban, 🔹 Handled designing and developing multiple genAI internal tools end to end boosting revenue \- Youtube GenAI publishing tool, Song analyser and Song popularity prediction tool, Feedback Analyser\. \- Microservices architecture, GenAI, FastAPI, Spring Boot, GCS, Gemini/ Vertx\.AI, Kafka, Mongo, Postgres 🔹 Led the migration of Games and Feedback services from AWS to GCP, facilitating a smooth cloud transition with zero downtime\. 🔹 Worked on services which boost user engagement \- Polling Service, Feedback Service, Dynamic Forms\. \- Server sent events \(SSE\), NodeJS, Spring Boot, Postgres, Redis, Mongo, Kafka, GCS, REST APIs 🔹 Designed and developed multiple features for Games tab\. \- NodeJS, Mongo, Redis, Kafka, CMS, S3/ GCS

Associate Software Development Engineer at ZEE \- Technology & Innovation, Jul 2022 \- Nov 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 🔹 Developed and maintained the Playback License Microservice, ensuring efficient and reliable license management for media playback\. 🔹 Leveraged Kafka for real\-time CMS updates of ILT20 key moments, enabling automatic collection metadata updates and triggering SSE events, resulting in an 80% reduction in direct API polling and significantly improving content delivery speed\. 🔹 Developed and executed a backend service to facilitate HTML5 games from Atterolabs and Gamezop, ensuring seamless integration with Zee CMS by collaborating closely with external vendors and cross\-functional teams\.

Member at Code Red \- NIT Rourkela, Oct 2020 \- May 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos, Raurkela, Odisha, India

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, National Institute of Technology Rourkela

BOARD OF INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION, ANDHRA PRADESH, Sri Chaitanya College of Education

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/pranaybattu
- codeforces: https://codeforces\.com/profile/pranay\_battu

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