Pranit Patil Technical PGM

I learned how software gets made.

Computer Engineering at the University of Mumbai. I wrote code before I managed it — a Django resume generator shipped end-to-end at Sahu Technologies, and nights that went to side builds: a crime-pattern prediction engine that clustered raw local-language data, a movie recommender that read review sentiment through NLP, a WiFi-based attendance app built at a hackathon, and a website designed gentle enough for grandparents to use.

The other education happened off-campus: national-level Smart India Hackathon, four years volunteering with NSS — blood-donation camps, awareness rallies, rural education drives — and in 2019, co-founding Mitro, a heritage-preservation nonprofit that's still growing seven years later.

I found the job between clients and code.

As a Technical Product Manager at ATG and Banao Technologies, I ran 3 concurrent projects across the full SDLC with JIRA, Figma and ClickUp — and discovered the role I was built for: primary liaison between client and engineering, translating ambition into shippable scope. Sprints got 10% faster through resource reallocation. Scope creep got a bouncer at the door of every Change Request.

Then nine months at Exaltica as a Business Development & Technology Associate showed me the other side of the table — client outreach, lead tracking, scoping requirements, and keeping technical and commercial teams speaking the same language. Selling the work turned out to be the best training for delivering it.

I raised the stakes.

MS in Information Systems at UMBC (GPA 3.7), 8,000 miles from home. As Treasurer of the Graduate Student Organization I govern a $1M+ annual budget — my two-unit governance redesign grew grants 19% and reached 24 more students. For pQCee, a Singapore quantum-cybersecurity startup, I led the 4-person team whose U.S. market-entry strategy the company adopted. Machine learning coursework shipped real models too — an H1B visa outcome predictor and an OTT churn model that hit 88.4% accuracy.

And because the international-student ride isn't free: I also work the front desk for UMBC Residential Life — first point of contact for students and families, phones, packages, scheduling, paperwork. Juggling that with grad school and a seven-figure budget is its own project-management certification.

Me, outside the tech world.

This part of the story is harder to version-control. School plays, sports seasons, art hobbies, treks into the hills, a reading pile that never shrinks, long gaming nights — the list is hard to put a full stop on.

But the chapters I keep re-reading are the social ones: organizing blood-donation camps, running education-awareness campaigns in rural India, handing out books and learning resources to make the case that education is worth reaching for. Nothing in a sprint retro feels quite like that.

My personal favorite is Mitro — a passion project a few friends and I started that has since touched many lives, with close to 90 individuals now joining hands. We run workshops and learning sessions for digital literacy, personal growth, and higher-education access; build partnerships with schools and local organizations; and create inclusive spaces where student voices guide the planning. We run grassroots surveys to find the real barriers to education and let that feedback shape the programs. I tell our story publicly to bring in volunteers — and keep the books transparent as Treasurer.