About

Prateek Agarwal is a Technical Lead Manager at Uber with over 10 years of relevant experience. He has a passion for scaling systems and solving performance and design problems, which has led him to work extensively with orchestration frameworks such as Docker Swarm, Mesos, and Kubernetes. Prateek is also familiar with deploying in PaaS systems like AWS using Terraform and on-prem environments like Nutanix. Prateek has a keen interest in learning about new emerging distributed system frameworks and has mainly worked with Python/Bash, although he has also worked with Java and Ruby in his past industry experience. He is a Staff Software Engineer and TLM at Uber, where he has worked as a Senior Software Engineer before. Prateek has also worked at AppDynamics as a Staff Software Engineer, where he architected the Kubernetes deployment to make it multi-tenanted, designed workflows to easily provision new Kubernetes clusters on both on-prem and AWS, and mentored other service teams to get onboarded to the Kubernetes clusters. Prateek has a Masters of Science in Computer Science from the University of Texas and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. His tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Python, Ruby, Java, and infra. Overall, Prateek is a skilled Technical Lead Manager with a strong background in scaling systems and solving performance and design problems. He has experience working with various orchestration frameworks and deploying in different environments, making him a valuable asset to any team.