Prateek Kumar

Prateek Kumar

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    SDE-II Platform-Infrastructure | MS Computer Science, CUB'24 | Ex-SWE Couchbase | Backend Developer | Distributed Systems | DevOps

  • Education

    • Delhi Public School Ruby Park,Kolkata

      2011 - 2014
      High School Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, English

      - Scholar Badge for Class X & XII- Class X (CBSE) - CGPA 10.00- class XII (CBSE) - 93%

    • University of Colorado Boulder

      2022 - 2024
      Master of Science - MS Computer Science
    • R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore

      2015 - 2019
      Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science 8.87/10.00

      - Student Placement Coordinator, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.- Event Head -MI7:Rogue Recursion(Coding Competition) - 8th Mile , annual techno-cultural fest of R.V.College of Engineering.- Secured 90 percentile in NPAT(National Programming Aptitude Test) conducted by NPTEL (a project by IITs and IISc) in collaboration with ACM India & Google.- Secured 3rd position in Android App Development conducted by Robotryst and selected to represent college at National… Show more - Student Placement Coordinator, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.- Event Head -MI7:Rogue Recursion(Coding Competition) - 8th Mile , annual techno-cultural fest of R.V.College of Engineering.- Secured 90 percentile in NPAT(National Programming Aptitude Test) conducted by NPTEL (a project by IITs and IISc) in collaboration with ACM India & Google.- Secured 3rd position in Android App Development conducted by Robotryst and selected to represent college at National Level at IIT Guwahati. Show less

  • Experience

    • Entrepreneurship Cell, RVCE

      Aug 2016 - Aug 2017
      Senior Associate
    • R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore

      Sept 2017 - May 2019
      Student Placement Coordinator

      - Led RVCE Computer Science’s 2019 placements as Student Placement Coordinator, securing 300+ Full Time offers for 225 students, best in last 3 years.- Conducted placement process for 140 companies on-campus in coordination with placement department.

    • Couchbase

      Jan 2019 - Jul 2022

      Part of the Kubernetes Operator team at Couchbase DB building and testing features for cluster management with declarative types and automation. Developed a semantic parser to extract actionable insights from log files based on predefined grammar rules with flexible characteristics using RAKE algorithm to detect relevant words and extracts.

      • Software Engineer

        Jun 2019 - Jul 2022
      • Software Engineer Intern

        Jan 2019 - May 2019
    • University of Colorado Boulder

      Aug 2023 - May 2024

      - Managed cohorts of 220-240 students on user-centered design and development skills like Figma prototyping, usability testing, and data analysis using statistical methods like t-tests and p-values with continuous iterative improvements in course content & learning outcomes.- Provided detailed feedback to students, highlighting strengths, areas for improvement, and suggestions for enhancing their user-centered design skills. - Graded assignments, projects, and assessments for a class of 200 undergraduate students focused on user-centered design principles and methodologies.- Graded over 1,000 assignments and projects throughout the semester, ensuring timely feedback to students.

      • Graduate Teaching Assistant

        Jan 2024 - May 2024
      • Computer Science Grader

        Aug 2023 - Dec 2023
    • EasyPost

      Jul 2024 - now
      Software Engineer - II, Platform Infrastructure
  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Prateek Kumar
      AWS Code Jam - 2024 - Mar 2024 WInner- 1st out of 22 teams, ~100 students solving operational tasks ranging from fixing AWS CodePipeline permissions to working with services like S3, VPC, EC2, KMS, Cloud Watch & Cloud Trail.
    • Awarded to Prateek Kumar
      HackZurich - Europe's most renowned hackathon - Sep 2021 - Emerged as one of the 600 participants, chosen from 5500 applicants worldwide, at HackZurich, Europe’s largest hackathon- Developed an ESRI web application for geospatial analysis using Earth’s surface positions from raster data to understand and visualize the impact of flooding scenarios on public community.
    • Awarded to Prateek Kumar
      Code for Good | JPMorgan Chase & Co. - Jul 2018 - Selected for ”Code for Good 2018”, from a pool of ~2000 students, a social Hackathon organized by JP Morgan Chase and Co., and built a Shared Appointment Platform for Spastics Society of Karnataka.- Offered a full-time role at their Bangalore office, Karnataka.