Prateek Khurana

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led successful launches of Disney+ Hotstar in multiple countries.
Expert in building scalable ad platforms for high traffic.
Proven track record in managing large engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Adtech expert with strong leadership in software development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentTeam ManagementAd Platform DevelopmentMarket ExpansionAd Network DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipPerformance OptimizationWeb DevelopmentFull Stack DevelopmentAutomation

Other Skills

JavaScriptHTML 5CSS3PythonAgile MethodologiesHTMLCSSAdtechSpringJavaCreative PlatformAdservingBig Data TechnologiesGradleWeb Services

About

Driven Engineering Manager with experience in requirement analysis and gathering, coordinating design and efficiently supervising execution. Successfully track product performance, identify and correct design flaws and motivate support staff through highly interactive management strategies. • Takes part in all the design document and helps in identifying the best technology solution by assessing efficiency, maintainability, operability & scalability. • Worked on product features and reviews code and mentor team members for best coding practices. • Planning for the roadmap for the team on quarterly basis and executables on sprint basis. • Worked on various ideas for creativity to enable better debuggability and monitoring and alerting for better system hygiene and productivity. • Managing 12 people team, conducting appraisals, providing timely feedback and discussing individual growth plan.

Experience

15 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 7 mos

Current Experience

Amazon

Software Engineering Manager

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Working as SDM in Category Experience team India
Managing a team of developers to scale Amazon Category Experience India and WW.

JavaScriptHTML 5CSS3PythonAgile MethodologiesSoftware Development+1

Hotstar

Software Engineering Manager

Jan 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Scaling the Disney+ Hotstar ecosystem outside India.
Leading a team of 20+ developers to launch Disney+ Hotstar in Malaysia and Thailand.
Leading the effort in creating Adtech platform for Hotstar
Designed and managing the complete Self-serve Ad platform(for external adv.) and Managed Ops platform to ingest Ad Campaigns, approval systems, invoicing and reporting. (https://brands.hotstar.com)
Managing and helped in designing the Ad serving platform to serve Video Ads for Hotstar video content.

JavaScriptHTMLCSSAdtechSpringSoftware Development+1

Inmobi

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Jan 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

As an Engineering Manager, my role and responsibility spans across technical expertise and mentorship and guidance, planning and execution, people management, business awareness, creativity and roadmap.
Currently Working on Creative Platform which powers the complete Adnetwork and beta-phase DSP for InMobi.
Creative Platform, bringing creative matching and optimization in Adserving path, have to handle 100k QPS in the initial phase with 10ms latency.
Creative Platform also works on ingestion and approval and rendering of the creatives.
Previously, worked on Brand Adserving vertical, drove VCR(Video Completion Rate) and DT(Pacing) for
demand in the serving path with similar traffic and latency constraints across multiple colos.

Creative PlatformAdservingBig Data TechnologiesAd Network DevelopmentTechnical Leadership

Technical Lead

Sep 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos

Leading Brand-DSO Business as a full stack developer and working on analytics side for the same using big data technologies.

Walmart ecommerce

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr

Working on Spring for Web services and Gradle framework for Front-end development.

SpringGradleWeb ServicesSoftware DevelopmentWeb Development

Software Developer

Jan 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

Working in Java Spring Framework for the online pharmacy department and also on the front-end Javascript.

JavaSpring FrameworkJavaScriptSoftware DevelopmentWeb Development

Ibibo web pvt. ltd.

Software Engineer/ Web developer

Apr 2012 – Dec 2012 · 8 mos

Works in Javascript, Jquery, HTML, CSS, Sass and redesign many pages for the website on the front-end as well as on the back-end (connectivity from the front-end)

JavaScriptjQueryHTMLCSSWeb DevelopmentFull Stack Development

Google

Web Developer

Aug 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

Works in HTML5, Javascript, CSS, CSS3 and Python projects. Builds chrome extensions and apps. Writes a framework in python to automate crawling the websites.

HTML5JavaScriptPythonWeb DevelopmentAutomation