Kumar Pratyush

Kumar Pratyush is an experienced professional in the field of software engineering and research, currently serving as an Approver for the CNCF OpenTelemetry project in the CPP and PHP community since May 2022. As a Software Engineer at AppDynamics since June 2021, Kumar specializes in backend C++ development within the DL Gold team. Previously, Kumar was a Student Researcher at the Complex Networks Research Group at IIT Kharagpur, focusing on link prediction in author collaboration through graph topology and machine learning. Additionally, Kumar completed a Software Engineer internship at AppDynamics and contributed as a team member at MLAI, applying machine learning to financial data to predict stock prices during recessions. Kumar graduated with a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2021.