Senior Software Engineer at Addgene
April 2026 — Current
Lead multiple fairly large features. Built super helpful applications using LLM assisted development.
About Me
Hi I am Pranav Mujumdar 
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I am a Senior Software Engineer with 5 years of building and modernizing computer applications at Addgene, the world’s largest nonprofit biotech repository. My evenings are spent cooking with my wife and practicing guitar. On weekends, you’ll find us hiking or biking in New England.
Programming Skills
Python/Django
90%
Python (Celery and other libraries)
85%
HTML5/CSS3/Javascript
95%
ReactJS/NextJS/TypeScript
95%
C# (for Unity Dev)
75%
Java
65%
Other Skills
Figma
90%
Balsamiq Mockups
90%
Adobe Photoshop
80%
Adobe Xd
80%
Adobe Illustrator
80%
Unity Engine
70%
Guitar
60%
Software Engineer at Addgene
Jan 2024 — April 2026
Moved laterally to the application development team, to deliver.
UX Engineer at Addgene
Jan 2022 — Dec 2023
Contributed as a UX engineer to the codebases for Django and ReactJs for Addgene's different products. I like working on migrating older pages to a newer more accessible designs for our Lab Inventory Management System, which is a smaller ongoing project we have ongoing to improve the product, as it involves understanding code in conjunction with user interviews to solve the problem, which is rarely the case.
UI developer Co-op at Addgene
Jan 2021 — Sep 2021
Contributed as a UI developer to the code base working on Django. Being a member of the product team worked on the intro to lab bench project, which involved the textbook design process to create pages that the curation team could use to publish new video content without the intervention of the dev team. Translated the designs from figma to code myself by creating django plugins that the curation team can easily use. Learned a great deal about software development and writing unit tests.
Grad Student, Northeastern Information Systems
Aug 2019 — Dec 2021
Learning to be a better and disciplined programmer, with completed courses like Web design and User Experience engineering, Application Engineering and Development, Data Science Engineering tools and methods, Building Virtual Environments, I have managed to get an A in the later ones, and A- in the other two
Pro Customer Experience Technician, Northeastern IT Services (Part-time)
Jan 2020 — Dec 2021
Working part time with the University's IT Services team, weekly tasks include troubleshooting users' technical issues, Part of the Training Team, training new recruits, creating Technical SOPs, regular interactions with users, I thoroughly enjoy talking to Users especially during these tough times
Freelance Designer
2017 — 2019
• Provided services on a freelance basis to create showcase websites using (EJS, Node, Mongo Stack) • Researched user requirements gathering and analysis, constructing and prototyping cycle with ETA 1 week • Built and hosted websites utilizing Heroku/Netlify/GitHub Pages; provided support by managing any further changes, overall design, and implementation time 3 days • Invented brands for local small businesses including visiting cards, office stationery, and billboard advertisements • Freelanced as a cameraman/editor for local language short films, coordinating a team of 10 people on set
Systems Engineer, Infosys, IN
2014 — 2016
• Conducted new customizations in Finacle e-Banking application, end to end, with requirement gathering and design and development • Proactively identified major bugs in production code, design gaps and in wrong requirement provided by client, avoiding major production issues and saved efforts and time due to early preventive detection • Educated junior team members in using Open API in dev environment • Assisted Infosys Fintech integrations team, with integrating third party plugin from EZMCOM for Speedboat 11.5.3 • Proactively monitored and resolved API performance issues which resulted in appreciation by client • Collaborated in Finacle integration with tools/applications like AppDynamics, ArcSight and Splunk for application/data performance/batch monitoring, significantly reduced manual intervention by about 90% • Streamlined daily processes, documented SOPs in Run Support which helped in sharing the knowledge across team • Automated reports/alerts for various application aspects, addressing the access control risk, reducing the efforts