PK & NK LLC

Principal-Level Software Engineering, Architecture & Performance Consulting

Helping organizations build scalable, reliable, and high-performance software platforms.

Available for Contract, Consulting, and Senior Individual Contributor Roles

📧 contact@pk-nk.com

About

PK & NK LLC is a software consulting company founded by Pramil Kuchhal, a Principal Software Engineer with more than 20 years of experience designing and scaling high-performance applications, developer platforms, distributed systems, and cloud-scale services.

Throughout his career, Pramil has led architecture, performance, reliability, and modernization initiatives for products serving millions of users. His expertise spans full-stack development, distributed systems, platform engineering, cloud services, performance optimization, and technical leadership.

Services

Software Architecture

Architecture reviews, modernization strategies, technical leadership, and platform evolution.

Full Stack Development

JavaScript, TypeScript, React, C#, ASP.NET, REST APIs, and enterprise web applications.

Performance Engineering

Application optimization, observability, A/B testing, scalability analysis, and performance tuning.

Distributed Systems

Design and implementation of reliable, cloud-scale backend services and data platforms.

Professional Highlights

Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft (2018–2025) leading architecture and performance initiatives for Bing Maps platforms.
Reduced page load times by 35% through performance optimization and platform modernization.
Owned performance strategy across a 15-engineer development organization.
Led modernization of Bing Maps SDK by unifying MapLibre GL JS and Bing 3D technologies.
Founding engineer for Bing Maps Auto-Suggest, delivering low-latency personalized location search.
Designed and built distributed geospatial data processing systems supporting millions of users.
Recipient of multiple Microsoft Star Gold Awards and HCL O2 Awards.

Technology Expertise

Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, MapLibre GL JS

Backend: C#, ASP.NET MVC, REST APIs, SQL Server

Architecture: Distributed Systems, Microservices, Platform Engineering, Cloud Services

Performance: Performance Engineering, Monitoring, Observability, Experimentation, A/B Testing

Contact

Interested in software architecture reviews, performance optimization, distributed systems, technical consulting, or contract engineering services?

Email: contact@pk-nk.com

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