Pranav
Aggarwal

I build systems that have to tell the difference between people and problems. Today that's fraud detection and identity infrastructure for a talent marketplace. Before that, payment rails moving a large share of India's UPI volume. In between, I compete in algorithms and maintain a privacy-first, on-device photo gallery.

Role
MTS, Security
Company
Mercor
Focus
Fraud · Identity
Based
India
Codeforces
Candidate Master

Selected work

  1. 2025 —Mercor · Security

    Fraud engineering for a talent marketplace

    Built the fraud and QA operations infrastructure for Mercor's matching system from zero — detection, review workflows, and identity verification woven into onboarding. Rebuilt resume parsing as OCR plus structured LLM extraction, and shipped an internal Slack bot so identity and QA checks stopped living in a spreadsheet.

    ~70%less on-platform fraudReview platform built 0 → 1
  2. 2025PhonePe · Payments Core

    Keeping UPI's backbone honest

    Backend systems on rails carrying roughly 47% of India's UPI volume. Designed Connchecker, a proactive connectivity and anomaly detection service, from scratch — it brought outage detection down to under five minutes.

    90K+transactions a secondConfig parse 580ms → 3ms
  3. 2023 — 2025GSoC / AOSSIE · Pictopy

    Teaching machines to see, without the cloud

    Founded Pictopy, a privacy-first photo gallery with fully on-device face and object detection. Mentored Google Summer of Code contributors on its architecture, CI, and ONNX Runtime inference stack across ten modules.

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    90+open-source contributors100% on-device inference

Side projects

EmoPot

A Raspberry Pi Pico plant pot with a mood. Featured by Tom's Hardware, Adafruit, and Arduino.cc.

HardwareRead the write-up

Resume parser

A spaCy/NLTK extractor for ATS-style structured candidate data — the same problem I later rebuilt with OCR and LLMs at Mercor.

NLP

Awesome Tables clone

An open-source global-search UI used daily by 900+ students, with a letter of appreciation from M.N. College.

Web

Contest record

101 rated contests on four platforms. Full rating history

Writing

Let's talk

Email is the most reliable way to reach me. Happy to talk about fraud systems, payments infrastructure, or a hard problem you're stuck on.