Pranav Walimbe

I’m a data science engineer at Balyasny Asset Management in the systematic group and recently graduated from UC Berkeley

I’m mainly interested in data / ML systems that are fast and useful

Recently, I worked on satellite image models for power plant activity [preprint] and a spatial query layer for Polars [github]

Experience

Balyasny Asset Management

Data Science Engineer · Oct 2026 – Present · Austin, TX

Balyasny Asset Management

Summer Associate · June 2026 – August 2026 · Austin, TX

Worked on research infra in the systematic group

Amazon Web Services

Software Development Engineer Intern · May 2025 – August 2025 · Seattle, WA

Redesigned the Apache Kafka produce API for offset preservation in cluster migrations on the MSK express brokers team

Synopsys

Software Engineer Intern · May 2024 – August 2024 · Sunnyvale, CA

Worked on graph and tabular ML models for chip design optimization on the PrimeClosure team

Intel

Software Engineer Intern · June 2022 – August 2022 · Folsom, CA

Worked on chip design automation tooling on the process design kit design rule optimization team