Pranab Krishnan

Pranab Krishnan is the CTO and co-founder of Zeal, a company that allows businesses to embed payroll into their platforms. Prior to this, they were a data analyst at The Wharton School and an ML engineer at MITRE. Pranab also spent two years as a bioinformatics fellow at the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), where they explored impaired dendritic cell-mediated immune tolerance induction through gene analysis in the context of autoimmune disease.

Pranab Krishnan attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology before going on to study Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Pranab then completed a Bachelor of Science (BS) at Y Combinator.

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