Pranav Maniktala
Aerospace Software Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPranav Maniktala is an Aerospace Software Engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance C++ systems and numerical solutions across aerospace, finance, and government domains. He currently works on HPC-focused C++ projects at Johns Hopkins APL after leading backend and data-orchestration efforts at Capital One that moved credit-card data into AI analytics pipelines. His background spans low-latency engineering, non-linear programming, and real-time data ingestion—illustrated by architecting microservices and dynamic LIDAR visualizations for 50+ atmospheric monitoring sites. Comfortable across languages and stacks (C++, Java, Python, Django, .NET), he blends research-oriented problem solving with production-grade software delivery and a track record of mentoring and hiring junior engineers. Based in the DC–Baltimore area, he brings a rare mix of finance-grade reliability and scientific computing depth to complex, mission-critical systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC
English, Hindi
Github Skills (27)
docker-desktop9
mongodb6
react6
api6
nodejs6
python6
graphiql5
docker5
windows4
dotnet-core4
graphql4
graphql-dotnet3
dotnet3
machine-learning2
reinforcement-learning2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pranav-manik/pranav-manik.github.io
Aug 2020 - Nov 2025
Contributions:80 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
umbchackers/umbchackers.github.io
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
hackUMBC old website
Contributions:214 commits, 55 PRs, 183 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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