I'm Praveen — an engineering team lead at Accelo, the service operations platform used by thousands of consultancies and agencies worldwide to quote, deliver, and bill work without the usual chaos.
I've worked my way up at Accelo over 8+ years — joining as a junior developer, progressing through mid-level and senior roles, and now leading the team that rebuilt our platform end-to-end as v4 (inception through to public beta). Day-to-day I work across a full-stack of GraphQL APIs (Apollo + Nexus, code-first), a Next.js web app, and a Perl backend, and most recently led the integration of a newly acquired AI-powered platform into our ecosystem.
Before Accelo, two years at Wipro in India taught me how to write production code — the foundation everything since has built on. Earlier still, at G-TEC in Pala, I built my first real piece of software almost by accident: I noticed the manual staff-attendance register was painfully old-school, proposed automating it, and ended up shipping a C#.NET / Microsoft Access system that ran for eight years untouched.
I migrated to Australia in 2016 for a Master of Computer Science at the University of Wollongong, stayed, and became an Australian citizen along the way.
Off the clock: we recently built our own home in Calderwood, NSW (moved in December 2025), I travel whenever I can, and I'm married to Elna since 2021. Originally from Ezhacherry, Kerala, India — a true Malayali at heart.
Accelo · Wollongong / remote
Joined as a Junior Developer and progressed through Mid-level, Senior Developer, and now Engineering Team Lead — 8+ years in one place because the work has kept getting more interesting. As lead I drove the engineering team that rebuilt our service operations platform end-to-end as v4, from inception through to public beta. Designed and shipped GraphQL API schemas (Apollo + Nexus, code-first) serving internal products, mobile clients, and a public API. Champion of test automation with Playwright and Jest, and most recently led the integration of a newly acquired AI-powered platform into our ecosystem.
Wipro · India
Where I learned how to write production code — the foundation everything since has built on. Early-career engineering at one of India's largest IT services firms, working across enterprise-scale Java projects and picking up the discipline of shipping software people actually depend on.
G-TEC · Pala, India
Designed and built a staff-attendance management system that replaced G-TEC's manual paper register. Proposed it after seeing how clunky the hand-written logging was; later iterations added advance payments, leave deduction, and payslip generation. Built in C#.NET with a Microsoft Access database. Ran in production for 8 years without a single tweak or update — my first taste of shipping software that actually got used.
Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering
University of Wollongong · NSW, Australia · 2016 — 2018
Postgraduate coursework spanning algorithms, software engineering, and security.
Computer Science
Sathyabama University · Chennai, India · 2009 — 2013
Four-year undergraduate engineering program.
Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
Aug 2016 — present · 9+ years
Saving lives by regularly donating plasma, platelets, and whole blood — contributing to
essential medical treatments for patients in need, including those with cancer, trauma
injuries, and immune disorders.
A few things I've built or contributed to.
Led the engineering team that rebuilt Accelo's service operations platform end-to-end as v4 — from inception through to public beta. Designed the code-first GraphQL schema layer (Apollo + Nexus) with GraphQL Armor security, powering a Next.js web app and a Perl backend used by thousands of consultancies and agencies worldwide.
The site you're looking at. A hand-rolled, no-build portfolio served as static HTML, CSS, and a sprinkle of vanilla JavaScript from GitHub Pages — terminal-inspired dark theme, typewriter intro, dynamic tenure counter, and active-section nav. The same repo doubles as my GitHub profile README.
Contributor to a library of custom GraphQL Scalars for building precise, type-safe schemas.
AI-powered professional services platform that brings project planning, resource management, and financials into one place. Joined the Forecast codebase as part of Accelo's acquisition, leading the integration of the platform into our wider ecosystem.
Mostly travel and good food. Some books, some cricket, the occasional hike.
I've made it to every Australian state and territory and keep going back for more. In Western Australia, Rottnest Island and its quokkas — and some of the most beautiful beaches I've seen. In South Australia, the wineries of the Barossa Valley and the Fleurieu Peninsula, plus the best sunset of my life at Sellicks Beach. The tropical landscapes of Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland. The Opera House and a cruise across the Tasman Sea on the NSW coast. Hobart's Mount Wellington and the old convict colony at Port Arthur in Tasmania. The opal-mining town of Lightning Ridge in outback NSW. Canberra at Floriade time — Parliament House, the Royal Australian Mint, the lot.
I drive a lot. The Great Ocean Road to the Twelve Apostles in Victoria and the Indian Ocean Drive in WA are two of my favourites. The longest day I've ever done behind the wheel was 1,350 km from Wollongong to Adelaide in a single sitting. And the most memorable was solo from Broken Hill to Adelaide through a dust storm — a hell of an adventure I won't forget.
Sublime Point in Austinmer is my favourite spot. I've also done Mount Kosciuszko in the Snowy Mountains, the Pigeon House (Mount Didthul) hike, and the Grand Canyon walk in the Blue Mountains — all picturesque.
Not a great cook, but I love eating. Ambur biriyani is the all-time favourite; Jigarthanda the drink of choice. Lamb brain masala at Lahori Dhaba in Yagoona, pork sisig at Atin Ito in Cringila, injera and dorowat at Jambo Jambo in Glebe. Ube cake and flan for dessert — Filipino cuisine wins my heart even though I'm not Pinoy myself.
Mostly novels — anything that sparks curiosity. Loved Ram c/o Anandhi and Rathri 12-nu Shesham. Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter were childhood staples; Nine Perfect Strangers a more recent favourite.
The Big Bang Theory, The Good Doctor, Sherlock, Young Sheldon, High Potential, and Nine Perfect Strangers — give me a clever mystery or a sharp cast and I'm in.
Lifelong supporter of the Indian cricket team. In the IPL, Chennai Super Kings all the way — whistle podu! 🦁
A Syro-Malabar Catholic — one of the world's oldest Christian communities, with roots traced back to St. Thomas the Apostle who baptised our ancestors in Kerala. Every Sunday I attend Holy Qurbana in Malayalam at the Syro-Malabar church in Berkeley, NSW.
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