About

Prateek Varshney is a talented coder with a passion for innovating and adding value to his team and himself. With over 3 years of experience in Android product development and 6 years of Java, he has established himself as a skilled software engineer. Currently working as a Staff Engineer at Xperi Corporation, Prateek has also contributed to open-source projects and worked with renowned companies like Practo, Kiwi, and Goldman Sachs. Prateek's expertise in Android development is reflected in his work as an App Developer at Blink (Witworks Consumer Technologies). He improved the fitness app for the Blink smartwatch by developing implicit and explicit sessions with different goals, a calibration-based mechanism for correct session distance calculation, and an event logging framework. He also optimized the app's battery consumption, making it more user-friendly. In addition to his professional work, Prateek has also created two mobile-first collaborative writing apps, Weave and Stitch-a-Story. These apps were designed to enable users to exercise their creative side and were created before similar apps like Tap and Series were introduced. Although these apps are still in the process of finding the right design and user onboarding strategies, they remain a pet hobby project for Prateek. Prateek's educational background includes a B.Tech + M.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and a 88.4% score in his secondary education at Campion School, Bhopal. Prateek's tech stack includes Android, Java, and mobile development, and he has relevant experience of 12.29 years. With his passion for coding and learning, Prateek is a valuable asset to any team he works with.