Pranay Baldev
IIT Kanpur · I turn ambiguous product problems into shipped systems.
Why Pranay
Not self-assessed — every claim below is backed by screenshots, GitHub data, or public record.
Built and scaled Ambient Security’s product across web, mobile, and enterprise workflows.
As Lead Product Engineer, Pranay owned the product experience end to end—turning an early-stage codebase into a production-grade platform used by real enterprise customers. He designed and shipped the core product across every major surface: a 30-panel enterprise analytics dashboard, PAM console, AI-powered identity graph, internal deployment tooling, and the complete Flutter iOS/Android app.
474 commits. #1 contributor. 12 months. At an $800M-valued, Sequoia-backed AI startup.
At Ema AI, Pranay was hire #2 in India and the only engineer accountable for the entire frontend. 474 commits across 6 repos. 169,337 lines added. Every environment, every per-customer deployment, every investor demo ran on Pranay's code. When the CEO needed the product to look perfect for a board meeting, they called Pranay.
Shipped real DeFi on a live Cosmos protocol. Actual wallets. Actual money.
Ignite (formerly Tendermint — the team that built Cosmos) raised $150M. Pranay shipped the DEX aggregation feature and fiat on-ramp on Emeris — a live, production cross-chain aggregator. Not a hackathon project. Not a side-chain experiment. A protocol where real wallets connected, real crypto swapped, and real money flowed through code Pranay wrote. The Cosmos ecosystem peaked at $10B+ TVL.
Won Airtel's company-wide innovation award. For a live-streaming platform Pranay built.
Wynk Stage — the live concert platform streamed to millions of Wynk users — didn't exist before Pranay joined. Pranay built the entire thing: the RTMP/HLS transcoding pipeline, the serverless backend, the CMS, the artist dashboard. Cut stream startup bandwidth by 5× (600 kbps → 120 kbps). Then won Airtel's Annual Innovation Breakthrough Award.
Every employer above hired Pranay to own the product. Not fill a seat.
Hire #2 at Ema. Lead Product Engineer at Ambient Security. Early engineer on Emeris features at Ignite. Solo streaming architect at Airtel. This is a pattern across five companies over seven years — not a coincidence. Each time, the company needed someone who would write the spec, make the architectural call, absorb the ambiguity, and ship. Every time, they hired Pranay. That's who this is.
