About

Prateek Udenia is a versatile product person with over 8 years of experience in design thinking, problem-solving, and product development. He has worked with businesses and startups of all sizes, helping them achieve their goals and overcome challenges. Prateek is a generalist with the ability to zoom in on specifics or zoom out to the big picture. He is a designer, developer, problem solver, deep thinker, and doer. Currently, Prateek is self-employed and works as a digital nomad, engaged in slow travel while working remotely with clients on design and development projects. He finds this experience enriching as it allows him to live in remote places, connect with locals, and gain insights into different cultures. Prateek is an advocate of remote work and believes in its power to bring people together. In addition to his work, Prateek is passionate about mindfulness meditation, slow travel, photography, and creating visual arts. He has attended and volunteered in mindfulness meditation retreats in the Buddhist tradition, which has led to some profound insights into the nature of consciousness. Empathy is his biggest learning from this beautiful time period. Prateek has worked with various companies in the past, including Simplilearn, where he was hired as a software developer after winning the hackathon. He collaborated with the product team to design, develop, and ship the web app for MarketMotive, a Silicon Valley-based company acquired by Simplilearn. Prateek increased the efficiency of the sales team by 30% by improving the lead capture and notification system. He also reduced the load on the database by building an asynchronous downloads feature for data-intensive downloadable reports with faster report generation. Prateek has implemented searching, filtering, sorting, and report generation for large data sets. He worked with the CRM team to add features to and simplify the in-house CRM application used by the 1000+ employees in Simplilearn for daily activities across sales, finance, operations & admin teams. Prateek implemented APIs and cron jobs for reliable and responsive communication and automation of processes for in-house applications. Prateek holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science from Manipal Institute of Technology. His tech stack includes designer, backend, frontend, software engineer, and web.