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Pratik Karmakar

Results-oriented professional with 6+ experience and a proven knowledge of advanced technology, application development, and capacity planning. Aiming to leverage my skills to successfully build technology to elevate people.

Key Skills

Version Control System (Git, Bitbucket, Gitlab)
Web Applications, MVC Frameworks
Leadership, Requirements Analysis
Practising Agile Methodologies, Design Patterns
Multiple OS, Preferably Linux/Unix
Enterprise Resource Planning
API and Microservices Design [REST, SOAP]
AWS
MySQL and SQL, Mongodb, PHP, C, JQuery, AJAX
Payment Gateway Integration
Performance tuning
Data Analytics

Professional Experience

Aug 2020
Present
Senior Technology Researcher
IIC, University of Delhi New Delhi, IN
  • Adept at qualitative customer interviewing. Capable of deriving key insights and patterns from customer interviews, and using that input to clarify problem statements.
  • Proficient at story mapping, to break epics down into smaller MVC issues.
  • Proficient at collaborating with Design on prototypes to bring potential solutions to life.
  • Knowledgeable about the product and the relevant product domain(s), the architecture, API's, and tech stack.
  • Spends up to 30% of time researching & defining category vision & strategy.
  • Bring ideas to reality by surfacing ideas early and collecting feedback.


Apr 2019
Jul 2020
Database Administration and Curation
IIC, University of Delhi New Delhi, IN
  • Apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline and mature automation, specializing in databases (MySQL)
  • Work on database reliability and performance aspects with the programming and R&D teams, as well as work on shipping solutions with the product.
  • Analyze solutions and implement best practices for our main MySQL database cluster and its components.
  • Work with peers to roll out changes to our production environment and help mitigate database-related production incidents.
  • Provide database expertise to engineering teams (for example through reviews of database migrations, queries and performance optimizations).
  • Plan the growth of database infrastructure.
  • Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and not on outages.
  • Leads and participates in several projects, having an overview and giving input on projects to be accomplished with the best performance and lower impact.

Mar 2016
Apr 2019
Intern Programmer
IIC, University of Delhi New Delhi, IN
  • Develop features and improvements to the Education-ERP product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
  • Analyze and interpret highly complex data to arrive at actionable recommendations.
  • Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (e.g. UX) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
  • Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
  • Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
  • Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
  • Represent IIC and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions.
  • Confidently ship small features, improvements, and bug fixes with minimal guidance and support from other team members.

Education

Jul 2013
May 2015
Master of Science Informatics in Institute of Informatics and Communication
University of Delhi
Jul 2010
May 2013
B.Sc (Honors) Electronics in Rajdhani College
University of Delhi

Achievements

2022
SAMARTH, Top ICT Initiatives of MoE
Samarth is an evolutionary process automation engine designed specifically for Universities & HEIs in India. It allows the HEIs to save time & resources by enabling them to automate their day-to-day operations while adhering to statutory guidelines and compliances laid down by competent authorities under MoE.

Based on Open Source, Open Standard

https://www.education.gov.in/en/ict-initiatives


2022
Automation of the digitally Signed degrees
During the pandemic the organization needed a solution to dispatch the degrees to the applicants at their premises in a secure and convenient way. So the full-proof capacity planning is done and successfully released more than 4 Lakh degrees digitally signed out of which 1.73 Lakh is dispatch through Blockchain Technology on 2021.
2019
Pandemic Innovation: Conduct of OBE
Pandemic compelled us to learn the importance of every second of our life. But we cannot comprise the future of our nation with full lockdown by generating a knowledge gap. Hence, Me along with other 4 members team have been successfully conducting the OBE consecutively for the 7+ term for India’s largest University (DU) to remotely take examination for more than 5 million students so far, using the open source technologies. For performance optimisation,  we have used Redis as cache and session management. 

Quote

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

Languages

English
(Fluent)
Hindi
(Fluent)
Bengali
(Native)
Assamese
(Fluent)

Career Aspiration

Leading a team of dedicated enthusiasts people aiming to build technology to elevate people.

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