Pragyansh Chaturvedi

Software Engineer - Prof I @ Canonical

About

Software Engineer with 2 years of experience interested in working with open source and system software like OS, Compilers, DB engines or any complex system. Currently working on enhancing the Ubuntu experience on Raspberry Pi devices. My work as part of the Ubuntu Foundations team runs on more than 100 million devices worldwide. Member of the Ubuntu MOTU team, which gives me upload rights to the universe component of the Ubuntu package archive. Previously interned as an ML Infra engineer at TurboML and as a quantitative analyst at Squarepoint capital and JP Morgan. Also interned at RS3Lab in EPFL under Prof. Sanidhya Kashyap on fuzzing the eBPF verifier. Graduated top of my class at IIT Roorkee, majoring in Computer Science. Was awarded the Shri MA Rao convocation award for second best all round performance. Was a member of SDSLabs during my time at IIT Roorkee.

Country

India

City

Bhopal

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

k6 Load Testing, LLVM, Python (Programming Language), C (Programming Language), eBPF, C++, Rust (Programming Language), Go (Programming Language), Debugging, Performance Improvement, Open-Source Software, Software Development, Fuzzing, Systems Engineering, Linux, VTune, perf, Q, Quantitative Analysis (Finance), KDB+

Experience

Software Engineer - Prof I

Canonical

2025-11 - Present · 11 mos

Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

- Leading performance optimization efforts for the desktop multimedia stack (ffmpeg, pulseaudio, libmutter) on Ubuntu 26.04 for Raspberry Pi, delivering a significantly smoother media experience for end-users - Maintain Ubuntu (mainly for Raspberry Pi) by debugging and updating 2,000+ packages, ensuring system stability for an OS running on 100,000,000+ devices. - Selected as an Ubuntu Member (MOTU) and Ubuntu Sponsor, one of ≈70 individuals globally authorized to review and approve changes to the Ubuntu operating system

Associate Software Engineer

Canonical

2024-8 - 2025-11 · 1 yr 4 mos

Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

- Enabled the Raspberry Pi camera stack on Ubuntu 25.04 by leveraging libcamera and rpicam-apps to achieve parity with RaspiOS, directly unlocking camera capabilities for 1,000+ developers - Led the effort for robot-automated hardware testing of Ubuntu images on supported Raspberry Pi models, saving 175 hours of dev effort during each cycle.

Desk Quant Analyst

Squarepoint

2024-7 - 2024-8 · 2 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer

TurboML

2024-6 - 2024-7 · 2 mos

Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

- Eliminated performance bottlenecks in the real-time inference pipeline by implementing the Left-Right wait-free algorithm, significantly reducing latency for streaming models - Designed a custom RPC framework in C++17 to unify ”actions/” endpoints, creating a standardized communication protocol across all models and actionable objects

Developer

SDSLabs

2021-4 - 2024-5 · 3 yrs 2 mos

India

Summer@EPFL Intern

EPFL

2023-7 - 2023-11 · 5 mos

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

- Worked at the Robust Scalable System Software Lab under Prof. Sanidhya Kashyap, mentored by Lyu Tao - Developed a Linux Kernel fuzzer in C and Go to stress-test the eBPF verifier by generating valid random eBPF bytecode - Discovered and reported critical security vulnerabilities to the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), contributing directly to the security hardening of the Linux Kernel

Quantitative Researcher

J.P. Morgan

2023-5 - 2023-7 · 3 mos

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

- Part of QR Rates team, worked on the pricing of Interest Rate Swaps and other PRIIPS - Automated the rate prediction pipeline for Interest Rate Swaps, streamlining the data flow from derivative inputs to the final stakeholder reports - Engineered a Monte Carlo Simulation engine and a distributed DB connector in Python, introducing rigorous testing standards and modular design to the quantitative codebase

Google Summer of Code 2022

ScummVM

2022-5 - 2022-9 · 5 mos

Extended the Director Engine to support Macromedia Director 4.0 movies by reverse-engineering required systems, enabling support for 100+ retro games on the ScummVM platform

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Computer Science

2020 - 2024 · 4 yrs

- Top 5% GPA among all the students enrolled in the undergraduate CSE program - Awarded the Shri MA Rao convocation award (second-best all-round performance in the batch of 2024)