Pratik Karad
Associate Director
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolPratik Karad is an experienced web-focused software engineer and emerging technology leader with eight years building enterprise applications using JavaScript/TypeScript, React, IBM Carbon Design, and backend technologies like Spring Boot. Currently an Associate Director at UBS after hands-on roles at Rocket Software and Mobiliya, he combines full lifecycle delivery—UI design, component development, testing with Jest and Playwright, and CI/CD—with cross-disciplinary collaboration. Pratik contributes to widely used open-source projects such as Material-UI, improving component theming and customization, which reflects his eye for reusable, accessible UI patterns. Comfortable across stacks from mobile (React Native, Flutter) to cloud (AWS, Azure) and mainframe-adjacent tooling, he pairs deep implementation skills with a knack for simplifying complex interfaces. Notably, he has applied design-system expertise to Storybook-driven component work and polished user experiences for mission-critical enterprise consoles.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Sinhgad College of Engineering
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
react-components10
system-design10
react-component10
system10
material-design10
react10
css9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
dart6
admob6
flutter-sliver6
flutter6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mui/material-ui
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 2 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Pratik primarily contributed to the Material UI React component library, focusing on enhancing existing components. They fixed issues related to component styling and class names, specifically within the Stepper, Chip, and TabScrollButton components. The user also added functionality to allow customization of icons in various components such as Breadcrumbs and TablePagination, demonstrating an understanding of component composition and theming. These changes contribute to the library's flexibility and customization options.
reactmuimaterialjavascriptmaterial-design
pratikkarad/carbon
Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
A design system built by IBM
Contributions:43 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year
design-systemsreactdesign-systemibm
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