Pratik Shah
Application Engineer Principal Associate
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPratik Shah is an experienced engineering leader and backend-focused software engineer with over 10 years building APIs and scalable services across financial services. Currently an Application Engineer Principal Associate at Capital One after leading engineering efforts at Discover Financial Services, he has a strong track record in Java/.NET ecosystems, cloud migrations, and data-driven feature delivery. Pratik bridges hands-on implementation with team leadership, having progressed from individual contributor roles to leading cross-functional squads responsible for production-critical systems. His background includes academic research and test automation at Illinois Institute of Technology, which informs a disciplined approach to performance and reliability. Not obvious from titles alone, he has practical experience modernizing legacy platforms—migrating apps to AWS and refactoring monoliths to more maintainable architectures. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he combines enterprise-scale delivery experience with a pragmatic focus on observability, security, and incremental improvement.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi
Github Skills (4)
social-network-analysis5
social-media4
python4
network-analysis4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
casmlab/stack
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:138 commits, 147 pushes, 57 comments in 3 months
bitspythonlabsocial-media
pratik27shah/ADO_Codes
Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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