About

Prathik Puthran is a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer with over 13 years of relevant experience in the industry. Currently working at Box, he has previously worked at Quantcast and Bloomreach in senior software engineering roles. At Quantcast, Prathik worked on targeted advertising, where he was responsible for building the dashboard that enables advertisers to specify targeting configurations and apply them during real-time bidding. He also worked on a model insights dashboard that provided advertisers with insights into machine learning models that drive the scoring of advertising campaigns during real-time bidding. At Bloomreach, Prathik was a member of the technical staff and worked on building backend big data processing pipelines from scratch and scaling them. He also worked on e-commerce search and implemented algorithms in Solr to improve the ranking and relevance of search results. Additionally, he worked on merchant controls to provide knobs to merchants to personalize the ranking of search results for search queries. Prathik mostly worked on Cascading, Hadoop, Play framework, Django framework, Solr, and Cassandra during his time at Bloomreach. Prathik's education background includes a degree from Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College in Udupi, where he studied from 2003 to 2005. His tech stack includes software engineering, machine learning, search, big data, Django, Cassandra, Hadoop, and backend development. Overall, Prathik Puthran is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer with expertise in a range of technologies and industries.