Summary
Prateek Goel is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping backend systems, currently leading the PayPay wallet team in the Greater Tokyo Area where he architects scalable money-movement services handling millions of transactions. He brings deep Java expertise and a strong foundation in data structures, algorithms and performance tuning, regularly identifying bottlenecks and driving end-to-end delivery from requirements to production. His background includes building core merchant services at Paytm and research internships at IITs, where he improved stream-sampling algorithms and prototyped natural language interfaces, showing a blend of practical product delivery and algorithmic curiosity. Comfortable working across India and Japan, he combines technical leadership, cross-team collaboration, and hands-on coding to make complex payment systems reliable and performant.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, 93.2% (12th CBSE board) and 10 CGPA (10th CBSE boards), High School, 93.2% (12th CBSE board) and 10 CGPA (10th CBSE boards) at Vidyasagar School, Indore
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical Engineering, CGPA: 8.65/10, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical Engineering, CGPA: 8.65/10 at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
English, Hindi