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Pranav Chaudhary

Pranav Chaudhary

Staff Software Engineer, GenAI and cybersecurity

Seattle, United States
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Joined June 2026
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Senior software engineer focused on AI, generative models, and cybersecurity — Pranav is positioned as a staff-level engineering leader working on GenAI and data governance with domain experience in DLP and security-relevant systems. theorg+1
Practitioner-researcher who publishes and open-sources work on LLM reasoning and confidence — he authors blog posts and research code on 'thought engineering' and contributes to peer-facing publications on AI annotation and crowdsourcing. github+2
Experienced across consumer and enterprise products with a track record of building distributed systems and tooling — his background spans telecom, travel, contract management, and large-scale consumer systems at Amazon. evessiocloud+1
Active mentor and community contributor — participates in IEEE activities, serves as a judge at industry/academic events, and mentors many early-career engineers. ieee+2

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From Thinking to Knowing: Using Natural Language Confidence From LLM Thought Processes

October 1, 2025

Blog post describing 'thought engineering', methods for eliciting natural-language confidence from LLM reasoning, and a framework ('automated confidence refinement') to improve multi-classification tasks; includes research code and evaluation details.

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Security Challenges and Opportunities of Crowdsourcing for Data Annotation

January 1, 2024

Article discussing quality, accuracy, and security considerations when using crowdsourcing to collect annotated data for LLMs and other AI systems.

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Delivering a Critical Project Successfully with Junior Engineers

Medium article reflecting on engineering team composition, mentoring junior engineers, and practices for delivering projects successfully.

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Hobbies

Reading, exploring various music genres, traveling, and writing technical blogs. evessiocloud+1