Pratik Shah

Experience

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  IBM

  Nov 1998 - Nov 1999

  Student CO-OP

  •Developed administration skills in AIX •Evaluated Y2K compliancy and performed AIX system upgrades•Participated in troubleshooting hardware problems on RISC servers•Completed a 40 hour course in AIX system administration

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  Gerson Lehrman Group

  Mar 2009 - Mar 2011

  Sr. QA Engineer

  • Demonstrated leadership by spearheading the automation initiative at GLG, including working with management to provide visual studio and various other licenses• Collaborated with build management team to integrate Watin automation testing with Hudson utilizing STAX plugin.• Helped implement STAF/STAX framework to run against virtual servers providing a more efficient and independent execution for Watin tests• Wrote over 40 automation scripts in C# using the Watin library, saving the company time, money, and resources during release regression cycles.• Logically created and executed test cases for several key complex algorithmic deliverables for search facilities• Created checklist of all items delivered for releases and participated in Release deployments.• Took initiative to take control of search environments and understand how services and ports function to help teams trouble if an issue should arise.• Always available to remote team members during any time of the day to answer questions. Worked weekends to “get the job done”.• Participated in planning meetings and helped QA prioritize for releases, regression testing, and functional testing.• Collaborated and communicated effectively with developers, cross team members and product owners about various stories that directly impact company revenue.• Track and managed project deliverables ensuring deliverables have met or surpassed quality of standards as defined in test cases.• Led QA teams in remote locations for major releases for multiple products. Provided support, troubleshooting of application problems, and kept stakeholders and various technical managers apprised of release status. Show less

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  RetailMeNot, Inc.

  Mar 2011 - Feb 2014

  Sr. Automation Engineer

  Data Software Engineer in Austin, TX• Contributed to and helped improve the data integration framework in python that facilitated integration testing for ETL jobs. • Wrote integration tests using the aforementioned framework to ensure any changes made to the financial ETL jobs would not regress data collected and cleansed from APIs, FTPs, etc.• Using virtualbox and CentOS 5.9, I created a localhost configuration of HP Vertica database. The virtualbox appliance was then hosted on the NFS and configured using vagrant so that all team members of data platform and warehouse can help contribute and backfill the absence of integration tests. • Created a small yet robust web testing framework using python and SST which facilitated automated testing for web applications created by the data teams. The same framework allowed logging into third-party portal websites and ascertaining data in the event an API, FTP or other channels had network latency or other connectivity related complications Sr. Software QA Engineer Austin, TX• As a company in a startup phase, I led the initiative to collaborate with product owners to identify test cases and document manual test cases for multiple acquired on-line assets. • Lead and initiated weekly QA meetings to discuss QA testing strategies for automation sprint work allocation and equal division of labor.• Led Agile initiative(s) and held 4 workshops: retrospectives, the art of writing stories, work estimation, etc.• Took initiative to set up automation QA environments, email distributions, and various other ancillary team needs.• Advised team on communicating and coordinating meetings with product owners for defect triaging, status updates, etc.• Wrote a dashboard web application in PHP that automated email notifications testing, provided utilities such as restarting memcache and viewing web error logs on multiple dev and test environments. Show less

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  Atlassian

  Nov 2014 - Oct 2018

  Contributed to the Stride backend written in Golang. This includes developing new services, endpoints, fixing defects, participating in community forums, and attending Stride app conferences to assist developers in building Stride integrations. When I had spare time, I would experiment how our developer experience can improve.As a member of the ecosystem team, I played a key role in evolving our dev relations by designing and developing the Stride JS client and Stride Reference App in NodeJS. The client was later open sourced by Atlassian so developers can build integration apps without writing custom endpoints and authentication logic.Prior to Stride's acquisition, I co-authored a NodeJS SDK to permit building apps across Atlassian products including Jira, confluence, and Trello. Show less

  • Sr. Platform Engineer, Stride

    Jul 2017 - Oct 2018

  • Sr. Performance Engineer, Atlassian

    Nov 2015 - Jul 2017

  • Sr. Automation Engineer, Atlassian

    Nov 2014 - Nov 2015
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  Wavvy Labs

  Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

  Founder | CTO

  Management Skills• Founder responsible for dev team management, network architecture oversight, customer relationships, requirements, and financing.• SaaS business model startup development, go-to-market strategy, IoT infrastructure cost management, HW vendor research, relationships, and pricing negotiations.• Experience with smart city business use cases, cross-industry operational challenges, workplace and commercial optimization with IoT, and how it can deliver true ROI.Technical Skills • Sensor devices, gateway management, and wireless connectivity experience in the growing LPWAN field. • Cloud-computing based IoT platform development for sensor to cloud applications including middleware for non-cellular LPWAN protocols• Building RESTful API services for IoT Applications • Sensor event management and data parsing with serverless cloud functions• Radio networking, field surveying, range testing, indoor/outdoor gateway, configuration/setup, field deployment /backhaul planning. Show less

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  Procore Technologies

  Mar 2020 - now

  Senior Manager, Sales Productivity

  Led product strategy and engineering execution for internal demo & account management application and platform that accelerated the sales cycle, customer time to value and significantly improved sales productivity across the organization.• Conceptualized, built, and launched platform from ideation to enterprise-wide adoption, reaching 1000 active users internally within first year• Drove $1.3M in directly influenced revenue within first 6 months of launch and over $9M overall• Achieved 30,000 hours of productivity savings across Solutions Engineers, Customer Success Engineers, and Strategic Product Consultants• Built and led a cross-functional team including product managers, engineers, and data scientists• Established strategic partnerships with sales leadership, resulting in 50% weekly active user adoption• Developed and executed comprehensive roadmaps for product growth & global expansionLeadership Impact• Recruited, built, and managed a high-performing engineering team from the ground up• Established agile development processes and engineering best practices• Mentored team members and fostered a culture of innovation and continuous improvement• Partnered with sales leadership to define and implement account management and automation capabilities• Collaborated with the data engineering team to design and implement robust infrastructure• Aligned with revenue enablement to support major corporate initiatives including training centers and the company's flagship event• Established partnerships with multiple engineering teams to ensure platform scalability and reliabilityTechnical Leadership • Architected scalable platform handling complex demo environment replication• Designed and executed integration strategy with existing enterprise systems• Led technical decision-making for infrastructure, security, and scalability• Led initiative for AI-driven sales insights including deal score and risk analysis for opportunities Show less