About

Pratyush Pundir is a cross-functional Engineering Manager and Full-stack Developer with over 15 years of total professional experience. He has spent the last 10+ years leading agile engineering teams across various industries and domains. In his current role at Mentora, Pratyush has built and leads a cross-functional team of 12+ product people, including engineers, testers, product managers, and platform administrators. This team delivers a much-loved EdTech product to Fortune 100 companies like AT&T, GE, Deloitte, Morgan Stanley, Accenture, and Chanel, among others. Pratyush is passionate about disambiguating, defining, planning, and scaling. He keeps his eye on the bigger picture and drives an understanding of the user, putting them at the center of everything. He executes both big and small within the realities of constraints and translates the big and complicated to the digestible and straightforward. Pratyush aligns, leads, and grows his team, taking down barriers for every colleague he works with. He is a teacher, a friend, and a student to his team, reading people well, and motivating them even better. When he fails, he learns and improves, questioning his beliefs and looking for validation in data. Pratyush's professional skills include Engineering Management, Requirements Analysis, SDLC, Agile Methodologies, Stakeholder Management, Resource Planning, Talent Acquisition, Performance Management, Full-stack Development, System Design & Architecture, Relational ko & Non-Relational Databases, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure Cloud, DevOps, Microservices, Test-Driven Development, Automation Framework, Demos & Presentations. He is familiar with several languages, frameworks, and tools, including JavaScript (ES6), TypeScript, NodeJS, React, VueJS, NextJS, Express.js, MongoDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Laravel/PHP, GraphQL, Redis, Flutter, and Kafka. When not neck-deep in code, product specifications, and prototypes, Pratyush spends time learning new technologies and riding his bike on a race track. He loves talking to people and understanding what makes them tick. If you'd like to chat, feel free to drop him an email at pratyush.sublime@gmail.com or hit him with a DM on Twitter https://twitter.com/PratyushPundir.