PRANAV NAIR

Pranav Nair is the Chief Technology Officer at Exla, a Y Combinator-backed technology startup developing a software development kit for running quantized transformer models on edge devices. Prior to this executive role, he worked as an operating systems and kernel engineer at Apple, where he led kernel development for sleep and hibernation features across iOS and macOS platforms. His specific engineering contributions at the hardware company directly improved the sleep and wake functionality for a user base of over one billion consumer devices globally. Nair holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University and maintains an active open-source software presence with twenty-three repositories on his GitHub profile. His technical background centers on low-level system architecture, combining his prior expertise in kernel engineering with a current focus on artificial intelligence model optimization and edge inference.