Prateek Garg

Co-Founder

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India7 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Built India's largest smart parking platform.
Expert in AI systems with production reliability.
Led cross-functional teams to successful project delivery.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and IoT specialist with a strong focus on embedded systems and AI deployment.

Contact

prateekgarg95@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Embedded SystemsCloud ApplicationsMobile ApplicationsComputer Vision

Other Skills

KubernetesDatadogDevOpsAndroid DevelopmentDockerNode.jsMySQLPostgreSQLKafkaMQTTJavaKotlinRaspberry PiJetsonTensorRT

About

Senior Software Engineer (AI) at Portal26 with 7+ years of experience across embedded systems, edge computer vision, distributed backend systems, and AI deployment at scale. Previously Co-founder & CTO at ParkSmart, where I built and scaled one of India’s most cost-effective smart parking platforms to 1,500+ sites across 20+ cities. Led end-to-end architecture spanning real-time edge inference, embedded firmware, IoT integration, and cloud-native backend systems. Started as a solo engineer and grew the team to 10 across engineering, QA, and product. Former engineer at Qualcomm, with deep experience in embedded protocols, secure storage, performance optimization, and system-level debugging. Now focused on building high-performance AI systems with production reliability and real-world constraints.

Experience

7 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

7 mos

Current Experience

Portal26

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2025 – Present · 7 mos · Remote

KubernetesDatadog

Parksmart

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Feb 2020 – Oct 2025 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

Designed and deployed smart parking infrastructure at scale (1500+ sites, 20+ cities) with 99% customer retention.
Built an offline-first and real-time sync Android POS app (Java/Kotlin) and React dashboards for operators and field staff.
Developed embedded controllers using Docker on Raspberry Pi and Jetson based devices for access control via RFID, FASTag, and ANPR.
Deployed custom-trained object detection and OCR models on Jetson Nano (30 FPS, TensorRT) and Raspberry Pi 5 (24 FPS, NCNN) for real-time number plate recognition with 99% accuracy
Engineered ESP32-based Dot Matrix LED controller using custom PCB and firmware supporting Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Ethernet with a browser-based configuration UI.
Integrated NETC-compliant FASTag payments using encrypted XML; scaled to ₹1Cr+ monthly collections in automatic parking fare payments via FASTag ecosystem
Scaled architecture from Node.js, MySQL and Socket IO to a distributed system using Nodejs, Kafka, MQTT, Docker, and PostgreSQL.
Led team growth from solo development to a 10-member cross-functional team of developers, QA, and product staff.

DevOpsAndroid DevelopmentEmbedded SystemsCloud Applications

Qualcomm

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jul 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India · On-site

Implemented Firehose protocol over HS-UART for secure flashing of Qualcomm MSM chipsets.
Diagnosed RPMB (Replay Protected Memory Block) issues in secure boot/storage subsystems.
Built internal tools for embedded validation and flash flow optimization.

C++ProgrammingEmbedded Systems

Interim Engineering Intern

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Chennai Area, India · On-site

Developed a Python-Tkinter tool to automate Device Tree Source (DTS) generation.
Created RegEx-driven visual parsers for analyzing hardware abstraction layers.
Finalist in Qualcomm IdeaQuest 2017 (Top 11 nationally).

ProgrammingObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)