About

Prateek Khatri is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with 9.78 years of relevant experience. He is a hands-on tech lead who loves to solve hard engineering problems. Prateek is a product thinker who builds for the user and believes that boring technology always comes to the rescue when venturing out into a new and uncharted problem domain. Prateek has expertise in Java and Kafka and has a good amount of knowledge of and working experience with Clojure and Rails. He is also good with the Observability stack and is familiar with Kubernetes and GCP. Prateek has previous experience in frontend development as well. Currently, Prateek works as a Product Engineer at gojek where he is the lead maintainer and developer for Ziggurat, an in-house open-source framework for creating event-driven apps based on Kafka. This library is used by over 250 services within GoJEK. He has also improved the productivity of developers by fixing the issue with RabbitMQ client in Ziggurat, which made Kafka consumer services immune to VM restarts during GCP maintenance events and fixed the business-critical issue of message loss. Prateek has led the integration of Kafka Consumer API in Ziggurat, making this API available for Clojure users via a minimal interface. He has collaborated with the observability team and improved the alert management experience for 100% of the Ziggurat services by onboarding them to the Prometheus based Alert Platform. In his past experience, Prateek worked as a Member of Technical Staff II at Adobe, where he built the business-critical features across different modules of Adobe Experience Manager, improved the productivity of the customers by delivering the anonymous login feature on the asset sharing portal, and revamped the user interface of the asset sharing portal. Prateek also worked as a Software Engineer at Novopay, where he developed the backend system for the banking and payment services offered by Novopay through a smartphone app for small businesses and planned and built the backend of Novopay digital wallet Smartphone app for individuals. Prateek holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. His tech stack includes Software Engineer, Kafka, Clojure, Frontend, GCP, RabbitMQ, Integration, Backend, Kubernetes, Senior Software Engineer, ui, and infra.