About Me
My name is Pranay, and I am a recent UC Berkeley Computer Science Alum, and current Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services. Passionate about financial, prediction, and sports markets & trading and designing platforms & services. Love to lift and play golf in my free time. Feel free to reach out to pranaymallik[at]berkeley[dot]edu.
Education
University of California, Berkeley
B.A. Computer Science · 3.6 GPA · 2023–2026
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Data Structures and Algorithms, Introduction to Probability and Statistics, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, Principles and Techniques of Data Science, Discrete Mathematics and Probability Theory, Introduction to Robotics, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Economic Models, Computer Architecture, Introduction to User Interface and Design, Computer Security, Financial Accounting, Introduction to Finance, Personal Finance.
Experience
Amazon Web Services — EC2 TimeSync
Software Development Engineer | Arlington, Virginia | June 2026 – Present
Part of EC2 TimeSync, which owns services for monitoring PTA/FHI across the control plane and data plane, as well as software that runs on EC2 droplets — all to deliver satellite time to every single EC2 instance worldwide (super fast and highly accurate!!!).
Cool projects include open-source tooling to replace chrony as an NTP daemon (ClockBound 3.0), and delivering precision time (down to microseconds!!!!!) via Amazon Time Sync.
Amazon Web Services — EC2 Nitro
Software Development Engineer Intern | Arlington, Virginia | May 2025 – August 2025
Part of the EC2 Nitro team optimizing memory and compute for burstable (T/Flex) EC2 instances. Focused on automating the team's hardware qualification review and results evaluation — building scalable analysis on EC2, S3, DynamoDB, and CloudWatch that cut manual review of 40+ hours of test data and saves 250+ hours of review time per year — so new hardware types can be delivered to customers well-tested.
Intuit, Inc.
Software Engineer Intern | Mountain View, California | May 2024 – August 2024
12-week summer internship on the Identity-c360 team, optimizing and customizing GraphQL lookups for Customer Data Cloud, an internal customer data lookup tool. Engineered sorting for result datasets of 1000+ queries, implemented constant-time filtering with DynamoDB across customer metrics, and built unit and Karate API test suites to validate memory efficiency and performance before production deployment.