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Pranav Palutla

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Building useful software. Mostly on purpose.

I’m Pranav, a UT Dallas CS student. I build full-stack products, AI tools, and risk systems, then open twelve tabs to debug one of them.

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home.tsx

Building useful software. Mostly on purpose.

I’m Pranav, a UT Dallas CS student. I build full-stack products, AI tools, and risk systems, then open twelve tabs to debug one of them.

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Pranav Palutla

Current focus: useful software, applied AI, and keeping the “temporary” fix temporary.

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Places that trusted me.

A brief history of companies handing me real systems and me resisting the urge to rename production.

Risk Analyst Intern

Jun 2026 - now

ApproveShieldRichardson, TX

Fifty-ish applications a day, because apparently risk does not take lunch.

  • Reviewed identity, credit, and income data for 50-60 applicants daily; fraud, famously, hates being perceived.
  • Queried applicant databases for risk signals so underwriting decisions had evidence instead of vibes.
  • Reviewed government flags and criminal records, then escalated high-risk cases through the proper grown-up channels.

Sprint Director

Jan 2026 - now

GDSC SprintsUT Dallas

Thirteen mentees, two cohorts, and a statistically irresponsible number of Docker questions.

  • Mentored 13 students across 2 cohorts on backend development and AI/ML integration without once saying “just Google it.”
  • Taught MVC, REST APIs, Docker, and cloud deployment—the four horsemen of “it worked on my laptop.”
  • Ran architecture reviews and debugging sessions until the MVPs became functional and the error logs became quiet.

IT Support Analyst

starts Aug 2026
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UTD OIT Service DeskRichardson, TX

Campus IT support: where forgotten passwords go to begin their redemption arc.

  • Troubleshoot university systems, software, and hardware when turning it off and on needs a professional witness.
  • Diagnose IT incidents in the ticketing system and escalate the ones with final-boss energy.
  • Help with accounts, network access, and device setup across departments that just wanted the printer to behave.
  • Listed for August 2026. Calendars remain an exciting dependency.

Software Engineering Intern

Sep 2025 - Jan 2026
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VFinDallas, TX

Built fintech iOS features across enough layers to make “full stack” feel less like a metaphor.

  • Built Swift UIKit interfaces and MVC flows that did, in fact, continue working after the demo.
  • Developed REST APIs with Azure and PostgreSQL, then introduced them to the existing CI/CD pipeline politely.
  • Worked with senior engineers on Swift architecture and Figma prototypes before the pixels developed opinions.

Selected builds.

Three projects that made it past the README and into working software—an effective way to find out where the original plan was wrong.

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TruScope

A browser extension that asks online content to disclose its bias. The internet was not thrilled. Built with JavaScript, a PyTorch-tuned Longformer, Docker, and Firebase.
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HackSMU build

NexDrop

A digital twin for urban financial analysis—SimCity, if every building demanded an ROI score. FastAPI and React outside; Ollama and Qwen2.5 doing spreadsheet-adjacent thinking inside.
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Developer tooling

Code Archeologist

A FastAPI backend that excavates legacy code so humans do not have to stare into the repository alone. RAG, ChromaDB, and several LLMs brought tiny shovels.
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Tools I keep opening.

Some I know well. Some know my search history better than I know them.

Languages

Swift / TypeScript / Python / Java / SQL / C++ / C

Interfaces

React / Next.js / UIKit / HTML / CSS / Figma

Backend

FastAPI / Node.js / PostgreSQL / REST APIs / Docker

AI/Data

PyTorch / TensorFlow / ChromaDB / pandas / NumPy / NetworkX

Cloud

AWS / Azure / Firebase / CI/CD

School, clubs, and side quests.

I mentor backend and AI/ML teams at GDSC Sprints and taught robotics across CFBISD schools. Somehow, everyone survived the live demos.

Education: B.S. Computer Science at UT Dallas, with a minor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship for when the code needs a business model. Expected May 2028.

Coursework: Computer Architecture, Data Structures, and Operating Systems—three excellent ways to learn that the computer is never “just slow.”

Campus: GDSC and Artificial Intelligence Society. Apparently one acronym was not enough.

Inbox-shaped portal.

Have a software, AI/ML, full-stack, or product-minded opportunity? Send it over. My inbox has been warned.