Prateek Kathal
Senior Technical Lead at Save Your Best Friend
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolPrateek Kathal is a Senior Technical Lead with 11 years of full-stack experience, currently driving architecture and delivery at Crowdlinker while founding community-focused projects like Save Your Best Friend and SnapTimes.in. He blends modern backend frameworks (NestJS, ElysiaJS, Laravel) with advanced front-end stacks (Next.js, React, TypeScript) to build scalable, user-centric apps and has hands-on experience integrating AI services (OpenAI, Gemini, Deepgram) and payment platforms like Stripe. Comfortable across cloud providers and containerized/serverless deployments (AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Terraform), he also designs resilient data layers using Supabase, Postgres and MongoDB. Known for mentoring teams and formalizing coding standards, he pairs product-minded leadership with deep implementation skills—often owning end-to-end delivery from API design to CI/CD. Outside work he channels his tech curiosity into social impact and community-building initiatives, reflecting a pragmatic blend of engineering and entrepreneurship.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Graduate Certificate Web Design & Development, Ontario Graduate Certificate Web Design & Development at Lambton College10th Grade - Central Board Of Secondary Education India Mathematics and Computer Science, 10th Grade - Central Board Of Secondary Education India Mathematics and Computer Science at Ryan Internation School, Rohini12th Grade - Central Board Of Secondary Education India Computer Science, 12th Grade - Central Board Of Secondary Education India Computer Science at Ramjas School, Pusa RoadBachelor of Technology (B Tech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B Tech) Computer Science at Manav Rachna College Of Engineering
English, Hindi, French
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Github Skills (178)
phonegap10
javascript-framework10
cordova-plugin10
syntaxerror10
microservices10
vimeo10
mongoose10
javascript10
ionic10
laravel10
nest10
scalable10
transformation10
angular10
server-side10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
prateekkathal/docs.nestjs.com
Jun 2019 - Apr 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 10 months
nestnestjsnodejstypescript
prateekkathal/laravel-simplecurl
Sep 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 8 months
phpcurlhandlinglaravel-packagelaravel
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