Prateek Chaudhry
Skipper Managing Director at The First Ferry
Seattle, Washington, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolPrateek Chaudhry is a design-driven founder and Managing Director with 10+ years leading The First Ferry, a Dubai-based design & build firm known for award-winning hospitality, residential and retail projects including a Burj Khalifa residence and Dubai’s first African-theme fine-dining restaurant. He combines a marketer’s sensibility—he’s a gold medallist with a Master’s in Advertising and Marketing—with hands-on creative direction to humanize spaces and deliver measurable value, such as markedly higher rental yield from standout interiors. Comfortable at the intersection of brand and architecture, Prateek emphasizes authenticity, disruption and client-led storytelling rather than imposing a singular designer’s stamp. Unusually for a design entrepreneur, he also contributes technical expertise to large open-source infrastructure projects (notably refactoring and optimizing parts of the Amazon ECS agent), reflecting a rare blend of creative leadership and backend/DevOps chops. Based between Seattle and the UAE, he builds teams and environments that prioritize sensory impact, commercial performance and long-term brand resonance.
10 years of coding experience
Master’s Degree, Advertising and Marketing, Master’s Degree, Advertising and Marketing at Gold Medallist Post Graduate in Advertising and Marketing
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (11)
docker10
go10
agent10
aws10
dockers10
devops9
automations9
automation9
unit-testing9
cgroups8
makefile8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-ecs-agent
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Amazon Elastic Container Service Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 247 reviews, 36 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Prateek primarily contributed to the optimization and improvement of the Amazon ECS agent's codebase. Their work involved identifying and fixing code inefficiencies by incorporating static analysis tools, and also refactoring the code to enhance its maintainability. Furthermore, the user made changes to the build scripts, enabling AL2 support, and performed unit test fixes. Additionally, the user was involved in refactoring GPU resource allocation logic and related testing.
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prateekchaudhry/amazon-ecs-agent
Jun 2020 - Mar 2025
Amazon Elastic Container Service Agent
Contributions:48 PRs, 489 pushes, 92 branches in 4 years 10 months
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