Prateek Narendra
Software Development Engineer (L4) at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPrateek Narendra is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building reliable cloud and security-focused systems, currently working as an SDE (L4) at Google in Sunnyvale. He combines a strong academic foundation (MS in Computer Science from Stony Brook, B.Tech from NITK) with production experience at Visa and Splunk where he delivered automation, SRE tooling, and API security products that measurably reduced manual effort and incident investigation time. Comfortable across Python, Java, Go and C++, he has shipped Spring Boot services, Dockerized tools, and front-end improvements in high-profile open-source projects like DuckDuckGo’s Instant Answers. Known for learning new technologies on the fly, he has taken ownership of SSDLC, caching optimizations and vulnerability detection proofs-of-concept—practical contributions that improve both velocity and security.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.56/4, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.56/4 at Stony Brook UniversityAISSCE, Science, 94%, AISSCE, Science, 94% at National Academy for LearningMatriculation, Science, 9.8 CGPA, Matriculation, Science, 9.8 CGPA at Indian School Al GhubraBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, 8.16/10, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, 8.16/10 at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, Kannada, Hindi, French
Github Skills (6)
css10
javascript10
handlebars10
instantsearch9
duckduckgo9
instant-view9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on JavaScript (JSON) APIs
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 16 PRs, 58 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Prateek primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers project. They made changes to CSS files, including modifications to layout and styling, and updated Handlebar templates to reflect the CSS changes. Their work also involved adjustments to JavaScript files, removing comments and integrating CSS updates, specifically related to the "quote of the day" instant answer feature. The user's contributions streamlined the UI and improved the presentation of the "quote of the day" feature.
apijsjavascriptduckduckgoinstant-answers
pnpninja/nsetools
Mar 2018 - Feb 2021
A Java Implementation of nse-tools package in Python
Contributions:1 release, 27 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 11 months
pythonnsequotesnational-stock-exchangestock
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