Summary
Prateek Vachher is a software engineer with a decade of experience building production systems at Microsoft, where he progressed from intern to Software Engineer 2 working on automation and Partner Center tooling. He blends a strong systems and ML background—spanning Python, C/C++, C#, cloud platforms, databases, and container tooling—with hands-on product work in the Power Platform and API design. His research stints at GroupLens applying NLP and vision to healthcare and social conflict analysis reflect a data-driven approach to real-world problems and bot detection. Prateek also leads an open-source effort to make machine learning more UI-driven and accessible, showing a bias for tooling that empowers non-experts. Based in Redmond, he’s equally at home shipping scalable backend automation and iterating on user-facing, low-friction ML experiences.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
English, Hindi, German