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title: "Prayash Mohapatra - Staff Engineer in Bangalore Urban district | Tal"
description: "Meet Prayash Mohapatra, Staff Engg @ VideoVerse, ex-Founding Engineer @ Dive | ❤️ to solve | GSoC ’16 based in Bangalore Urban district. AI stack includes aistudio, claude code, and codex. Explore public work links including github, twitter.com, and prayashm.com."
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# Prayash Mohapatra on Tal

## Headline

Staff Engg @ VideoVerse, ex\-Founding Engineer @ Dive \| ❤️ to solve \| GSoC ’16

## About

Generalist engineer who loves to build, at scale, for impact\. Has worked in Developer SaaS and B2B AdTech/MarTech domains\. Loves Opensource\. Did GSoC 2016 in Python Software Foundation\. Volunteers at Bakul Foundation\. Loves manual coffee brewing and plans to retire as a barista\. Would love to talk about Medical Images\. wanna talk? pick a time here: https://calendly\.com/prayash/meet

## Location

Bangalore Urban district

## AI stack

aistudio

claude code

codex

railway

DSPy

OpenRouter

## Work experience

Staff Engineer at Magnifi, Jan 2026 \- Aug 2026 · 7 mo, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

Lead Engineer at Magnifi, Jan 2024 \- Dec 2025 · 2 yrs, Remote

Founding Engineer at Let’s Dive, Nov 2020 \- Jan 2024 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Other responsibilities: Data Protection Officer and POSH Internal Committee\.

Senior Software Engineer at Zeotap, Nov 2019 \- Nov 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru Area, India, Scale pixel analytics endpoint to 200k RPS Golang microservices in on\-prem data centres

Software Engineer at Zeotap, Jan 2019 \- Nov 2019 · 11 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Hierarchical IAM for a B2B SaaS suite of products\.

Senior Software Engineer at NowFloats, Jun 2017 \- Dec 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, Worked on getkitsune\.com \- Deepcrawl for kitsune\.tools to crawl client\-side rendered sites\. \- Deployment packing and Cloud Resource Orchestration for GCP and AliCloud\. \- Dynamic Page Routing, Automatic Website Optimization \(also using service workers\)\. \- Modular usage\-based billing system\.

Software Engineer Intern at NowFloats, Dec 2016 \- Feb 2017 · 3 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Tasks: \- FloatBot \- API to extract "visually important" data from a webpage\. \- Directory listing site for shops with categories and regions\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Information Technology, Odisha University of Technology and Research

High School, Kendriya Vidyalaya No\.1, Bhubaneswar

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/prayashm
- twitter\.com: https://twitter\.com/catchprayash
- prayashm\.com: https://prayashm\.com/

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