Hi, I’m Pratik Kate
An analytical and curious individual with 7+ years of problem-solving experience for Fortune 500 companies and startups. My ability to learn quickly has allowed me to become versatile in my technical skills, making me a valuable asset to any team.
Work Experience
Activision Blizzard King (Candy Crush)
Senior Platform Solutions Engineer
- Part of a Cross-functional team responsible for AdTech Platform Solutions.
- Resolve technical issues and roadblocks during feature rollouts. Analyse Data, debug, troubleshoot and drive forward solutions.
- Collaborate with Game Studios & Partner Managers during the pre-and post-sales phases, focusing on technical aspects.
- Interact and represent the Tech part of the business. Monitor and collect all technical information of a feature for Game Studios.
- Analyse feature usage and recommend ways to maximise the performance of processes.
- Writing custom scripts, dashboards, and ad-hoc tools to support customer requirements for the short term and working with the internal team (Product & Engineering) for long-term solutions.
Daemon Solutions Limited (Dae.m)
Senior Consultant
- Tech Stack: AWS, Python, Snowflake, Airflow, Docker, GitHub Actions
- Built data pipelines for one of the UK's top supermarket and retail companies.
- Used AWS to build data-intensive applications and orchestrate data pipelines using Apache Airflow.
- Loaded and transformed large sets of structured and semi-structured data to Snowflake
- Successfully identified and resolved systems issues for clients.
EY (Ernst & Young)
Senior Consultant (Tech Lead)
- Tech Stack : Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Azure DevOps, Big Query
- Drive product architecture & development as part of a strategic R&D team that enabled customers to optimize supply chain functions
- Empowered our team to become a one-stop-shop for consulting, technology and analytics
- Learned liner, mixed integer and constraint programming techniques
- Uplifted software performance to handle 1 billion+ data records (100 TB)
- Build ETL Pipeline on Cloud Platform like BigQuery and Azure Data Factory
- Solved critical technical challenges, which got me promoted to Senior Consultant in 2020
- Facilitated engineering excellence by embedding industry best practices into ways of working
- Remained a key focal point for client executives, senior stakeholders, sponsors and directors
Lead Android Developer
Scholr
- In February 2021, Scholr was acquired by India's most valued startup BYJU.
- Operated in a start-up environment and optimised programming standards within the business
- Mentored team of interns and successfully introduced multi-language support and in-app chat feature
- Reduced app memory size by optimizing CPU architecture builds and resolved defects and crashes
- Integrated firebase performance monitoring to evaluate application performance
Baetter App
Senior Android Developer
- Developed a prototype using low-fidelity wireframes to win the seed money in just one week
- Implemented offline first approach for user actions to improve our user experience.
- Added in-app chat feature using socket.io and long click pop-up view to preview post
- Integrated social sign-in using the Firebase Auth module and Crashlytics to have better crash insights
- UI Design | Website
Nestopia
Android Developer
- Developed a mobile app to capture the scope of work and generate a detailed inspection report.
- Designed an offline-first app to sync data to remote servers and fixed storage issues.
99Digitech
Co-Founder
- Developed 99Pencils App to enable students to access critical admissions process information
- 15k+ active users within six months
- #1 App in the "education" category of the Play Store
- Received recognition within Facebook's FBStart
- Website
Education
Bachelor of Science in Animation & VFX
Lovely Professional University
More About Me
Core
- Innovation & Creativity
- Consulting & Advisory
- Leadership & Diplomacy
- Clear Communication
- Problem Solving
- Emotional Intelligence
- Analytical Ability
- Time Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Data Management
- Project Governance
- Process Optimisation
Technical
- Python
- PySpark
- Pandas
- NumPy
- scikit-learn
- FastAPI
- Flask
- Celery
- Java
- Android
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Snowflake
- CI/CD
- Airflow
- SQL
- NoSQL
- BigQuery
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Docker
- Excel
- Grafana
EY KUDOS
Exceptional commitment towards delivering excellence
EY KUDOS
Awarded for my exemplary performance
NGDC 2016 (Mumbai Region)
Winner of Game development hackathon held at BSE, MUMBAI
My Blog
India’s Pandemic Response: Paving the Way for Atmanirbhar Bharat
The COVID-19 pandemic, an unparalleled global challenge, spotlighted the critical need for nations to reassess their self-sufficiency. In…
Mar 22, 2024 / Read More
The Retrospective Nature of Success
Success, often elusive and subjective, is a concept that transcends the boundaries of time. It is a journey marked by milestones, setback…
Dec 20, 2023 / Read More
Shifting Tech Tides: China’s iPhone Ban and India’s Semiconductor Opportunity
Recent reports of a Chinese government ban on the use of iPhones by its officials have sent shockwaves through the tech industry. Apple, …
Sep 09, 2023 / Read More
Python Dataclasses: Streamlining Class Creation for Enhanced Power and Simplicity
Python is renowned for its readability and simplicity, but sometimes, creating classes for data storage can become verbose and cumbersome…
Sep 06, 2023 / Read More
Chandrayaan-3: Paving the Lunar Path to India’s Future Success
India’s resolute journey into the cosmos reached another remarkable milestone with the triumphant success of Chandrayaan-3, the third lun…
Aug 26, 2023 / Read More
Installing Python Packages Offline
NOTE : Operating system and CPU architecture of you source and destination machines should be same. Else your .whl file will mismatch and…
Mar 18, 2021 / Read More
DataGrip: How to connect to Oracle as SYSDBA
In Oracle SQL Developer Tool we add user name as
Feb 05, 2021 / Read More
Enable Redis remote connection
On your development server most of the time you expose database to connect remotely to edit, view, remove data. Similarly you can enable …
May 01, 2020 / Read More
ORA-28000: the account is locked
Resolve Oracle error — ORA-28000: the account is locked
Apr 11, 2020 / Read More
NGINX + Tomcat 9 on Ubuntu 18.04
This tutorial will help you to install and configure Tomcat 9 along with Nginx server as reverse proxy on Ubuntu 18.04. You can follow sa…
Mar 20, 2020 / Read More