Pranay is an eleventh grade student at Geffen Academy at UCLA. His passion for computer science started from a young age and he started coding at seven years old. He has built various applications for his school and has made multiple contributions to large open-source software projects like Linux or Proton. In addition, he created and maintains an open-source application with over fifteen thousand downloads. He has also done multiple coding internships. His passion for robotics started in ninth grade when he joined his school’s robotics team.