About

Prachi Kothari is a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, with a passion for technology and data. She has extensive experience in software development and product management and is a quick learner with strong logical reasoning skills. Prachi has a collaborative leadership style and excellent presentation and communication skills. With experience in designing and developing fin-tech platforms across Indian and international markets, data analytics, and end-to-end software development life cycle, Prachi is a key developer in her team. She is currently working as a Software Developer and Product Owner in the proprietary trading desk at Goldman Sachs, where she is responsible for developing various financial platforms in an enterprise application development environment using Java 8 and MongoDB. Prachi has a strong background in building various financial software, including trading platforms across global exchanges, reference data modeling, analyzing and developing platforms for various asset classes, impact of corporate actions in the market, and developing a scenario analysis platform for risk management. She also built the Edelweiss Mid office platform, which had complex calculations on terabytes of data for end-of-day profit and loss reporting to the trading desk. Prachi is passionate about mentoring and training junior developers in her team and has experience in managing quality assurance processes and deploying into production. She is also responsible for product management for central reference data application, where she manages requirements, interacts with clients and other stakeholders, sets priorities, and designs features in-depth. Prachi is a graduate of Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, where she earned a Bachelor of Technology degree in ICT. She is also a volunteer for social causes and has been a part of Make a Difference Ahmedabad and Bhumi Org Mumbai, where she teaches underprivileged kids on weekends. Prachi has a diverse technical skill set that includes Java 8, data analytics, MongoDB, Kafka, Python, Tableau, data structures and algorithms, and operating systems. She is excited to learn new skills and technologies and is always looking to make a difference in society and people's lives with technology and data.