Pratik Shah
Senior IT Director at NTT DATA Services
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPratik Shah is a Senior IT Director with 26 years of technology experience who now leads a multi-disciplinary architecture organization for NTT DATA’s Life & Annuities TPA business, driving enterprise platform strategy and delivery across multi-carrier clients. He blends deep technical credibility—from early .NET development and embedded/IoT open-source contributions to cloud, data lakehouse, and API platform architecture—with commercial instincts honed in pre-sales and productized SaaS offerings. Pratik has delivered three major, revenue-generating production platforms (multi-carrier API platform, Databricks medallion lakehouse, and customer communications modernization) that materially improved throughput, reduced complaints, and unlocked contracted recurring revenue. He manages layered architecture teams and insists that his teams both design systems and own them in production, ensuring operational rigor and governance. Notably, his open-source work on Espressif IoT projects shows hands-on embedded systems and firmware expertise beyond his enterprise insurance focus. He holds credentials including FLMI, PMP, AWS Solutions Architect (Associate), a Wharton CTO certificate, and postgraduate AI/ML study at UT Austin.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Program, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Program at Wharton Executive EducationPost Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence at The University of Texas at AustinPGDBII - Post Graduate Diploma, Banking, Insurance and Investment, PGDBII - Post Graduate Diploma, Banking, Insurance and Investment at Welingkar Institute of ManagementBachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting and Finance, Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting and Finance at University of Mumbai
Github Skills (23)
ss10
debug10
ssl10
protocol-buffers10
freertos10
homekit10
sslv310
c1110
esp826610
c1710
iot10
sys10
aws-iot10
esp-idf10
embedded10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
espressif/esp-homekit-sdk
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 47 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pratik's primary contribution was adding comprehensive support for the ESP8266 platform to the esp-homekit-sdk. This involved adapting and modifying existing code to ensure compatibility with the ESP8266's hardware constraints, including changes to the mu_srp library. They also made platform-specific adjustments in the example and platform files. Furthermore, they incorporated fixes for IDF dependencies and general build issues across different IDF versions.
espressif/esp-rainmaker
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
ESP RainMaker Agent for firmware development
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 298 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Pratik's contributions focused on developing and integrating features for ESP RainMaker, an agent for firmware development. They added essential components, examples, and command-line interface (CLI) tools for the ESP RainMaker platform. The user primarily worked on the "wifi_config" protocol buffer definition and associated code. They also made updates to the core user node mapping functionalities and implemented changes for better memory management within the project.
firmwareagentrainmakeresp8266esp-rainmaker
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