Tech Consultant - Pratik Kate

Work Experience

07/2022 – PRESENT

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.

02/2022 – 07/2022

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.

07/2018 – 01/2022

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

02/2018 – 07/2018

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

06/2016 – 09/2017

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

01/2016 – 06/2016

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.

05/2015 – 01/2016

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