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Nakul Kulkarni

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Pune, Maharashtra, India
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  • Promptcloud
    Software Engineer Platform II
    Promptcloud
    Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 10 months)
    • Own critical core platform components supporting distributed scraping systems at scale.
    • Coordinate with DevOps to orchestrate workers, queues, and load distribution across scraping clusters.
    • Optimized proxy usage logic and retry strategies, cutting ad-hoc proxy spend by over 30%.
    • Designed cost-aware scraping strategies balancing success rate and infrastructure spend.
    • Enabled stable crawling at millions of requests per month scale with minimal failures.
    • Introduced LLM-powered workflows using LangChain to automate internal processes.
    • Mentored junior engineers and served as a go-to person for debugging complex scraping issues.
    • Supported cross-team migrations and internal platform upgrades.
  • Promptcloud
    Software Engineer - Platform
    Promptcloud
    Jan 2023 - Jan 2025 (2 years 1 month)
    • Built and improved scraping pipelines for high-volume data extraction.
    • Worked on Scrapy-based and custom scraping frameworks.
    • Automated data validation flows, reducing QA dependency by 60%.
    • Diagnosed and fixed crawl failures caused by anti-bot protections.
    • Improved scraper stability and reduced failure rates through smarter retries and session handling.
    • Created internal tooling to speed up scraper deployment cycles.
  • Promptcloud
    Software Engineer Developer II
    Promptcloud
    Jan 2022 - Jan 2023 (1 year 1 month)
    • Developed scalable scrapers across multiple industries.
    • Integrated new websites into distributed crawling pipelines.
    • Engineered strategies to unblock websites and maintain crawl continuity.
    • Built robust parsing logic for messy, dynamic web data.
    • Participated in peer reviews and code quality improvements.
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    Senior Data Engineer
    Provakil Technologies
    Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 (1 year 1 month)
    • Built automated pipelines for large-scale legal data extraction.
    • Implemented queue-based scraping architecture using Redis and RabbitMQ.
    • Resolved production scraping failures under tight SLAs.
    • Improved extraction accuracy via validation checks and cleaning pipelines.
  • Cognizant
    Programmer Analyst
    Cognizant
    Jan 2019 - Jan 2021 (2 years 1 month)
    • Developed ETL and data extraction workflows.
    • Maintained databases and ensured data reliability.
    • Provided production debugging and system support.
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  • MIT Academy of Engineering
    Bachelor of Engineering
    MIT Academy of Engineering
    Jan 2015 - Jan 2019 (4 years 1 month)