About

Pratap Vhatkar is an experienced Mobile Tech Lead with over 10 years of experience in various domains such as Advertising/Media Platform/Entertainment/Banking/Analytics. He has worked in different roles such as a solution architect, technical team lead, consultant, module lead, subject matter expert, and product architect. Pratap has a strong functional background in analyzing business needs and spearheading initiatives to enhance business by building case studies. He has conducted requirement workshops, solution architecture use cases, application scalability, lead development, performance optimization & testing, integration testing, troubleshooting, and debugging of software applications. He has also delivered and implemented projects as per scheduled deadlines and extended post-implementation and maintenance support to the support team and client. Pratap has continuously evolved products and added new features, and he has set up infrastructure for Prod and Non-Prod Envs on AWS Cloud. Pratap has 8 years of Scrum experience, where he has been involved in Sprint planning meetings, Daily scrum meetings, Set up sprint goals with Team member, Sprint Review meetings, Retrospective sessions & best learning for the next Sprint. He follows Agile methodology, coding best practices, design pattern, TDD, peer reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentoring as his best practices. Pratap's core competencies include Architecture: MicroServices, Serverless, Event-Driven, and Stateless. He has a strong tech stack that includes Java(8), Kotlin, Swift, Objective C, Multithread, J2EE, REST Web Services (SpringBoot, GraphQL), Android, and iOS. Pratap has also worked with Java Libraries such as Mockito, Jackson, and Gson. Currently, Pratap is working as an Engineering Lead at Zeta, where he is building neo-banking mobile apps. In the past, he has worked with companies like Gojek and Blazeclan, where he held the positions of Consultant and Senior Software Engineer, respectively. Overall, Pratap has 9.28 years of relevant experience in AWS, iOS, Microservices, Android, Senior Software Engineer, test, Mobile, Java, Spring Boot, Integration, Frontend, Web, infra, and CI/CD.