About

Prateek Ladha is an experienced AVP Engineering with a demonstrated history of working in the entertainment, ticketing, telecom, payroll, and web domains. He has worked with leading companies such as Stanza Living, Wynk, Hotstar, and Airtel. Prateek has a specialization in designing, architecting, and building subscription and payments systems for large-scale products. He is a seasoned professional with experience in building products for test automation, performance engineering, and chaos engineering for end-to-end testing and delivery of products. Prateek has managed the quality of multiple products with a monthly active user base of over 65 million with a 25-person team. He is always interested in solving new business problems at scale. His expertise includes setting up quality gatekeepers for measuring the quality of search relevance and recommendations, automation, and performance labs for products on a large scale. Prateek is proficient in several programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, Python, Scala, and Perl. He is well-versed in various software and technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, JPA, Spark-Sql, Redis, MemCache, Airflow, GoCD, Gitlab, Jenkins, MySql, DynamoDB, InfluxDB, Oracle, MongoDB, AWS, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, ECS, Appium, XCuiTest, Selenium, QTP, Charles, Wireshark, Flood.io, Gatling, Jmeter, Little eye, and DDMS. Currently, Prateek is working as the Head of Engineering - Payments and Subscriptions at Airtel. He is responsible for building communication, payments, and subscription systems for Wynk Music and Airtel Xstream. He has also worked on several key deliverables such as Zap Search, Podcasts, New SVOD Journey for Airtel Xstream, Airtel Xstream on Living Room platforms, Media services platform, and Artist Live. Prateek has a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Information Technology from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University and a degree in Biomedical/Medical Engineering from Oxford Sr. Sec. School. He has relevant experience of 12.87 years and is skilled in various technologies such as Android, AWS, SDET, SQL, NLP, CI/CD, QA, Python, Scala, Java, and more.