Pranav joined the lab in 2024 as a Graduate Research Assistant, bringing with him over three years of professional software development experience and a strong background in cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS. Since joining the team, he has contributed to a wide range of development and DevOps tasks. Notable achievements include updating Java-based image-saving libraries to resolve a long-standing issue affecting Windows users, enhancing the BioViz.org front-end with a new top-of-page banner, resolving server-side configuration issues, and designing and developing a system to mirror our Bitbucket repositories to GitHub. He is also actively working on the Java codebase of the Integrated Genome Browser (IGB), where he is implementing a dynamic search feature to help users more easily select species (on-going).