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title: "Prateek Desai - Engineering in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Prateek Desai, FullStack Software developer. Startup Guy, Acceldata, Ex-BCG, Algo Trader based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes aistudio, anthropic apis, and antigravity."
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# Prateek Desai on Tal

## Headline

FullStack Software developer\. Startup Guy, Acceldata, Ex\-BCG, Algo Trader

## About

Software Engineer at Ping Identity working on PingOne Protect's fraud detection SDKs\. Responsible for capturing device signals and browser\-based behavioral metrics to detect agentic AI bots, distinguishing legitimate AI agents from malicious ones for enhanced MFA decision\-making\. Extensive experience as a full\-stack developer with strong frontend expertise in JavaScript frameworks, and solid backend development knowledge\. Previously contributed to a Data Observability platform that monitored multiple data sources in real\-time and enabled visual analytics using custom query builders with Charting Libraries\. Also co\-founded a startup, leading both technical architecture and business operations\. Presently managing parenting responsibilities for 2\-year\-old twins alongside professional commitments\. 🛠 Skills Frontend: React, Vue3, Angular, Ionic, JavaScript, TypeScript, ChartJS, D3\.js Backend: Node\.js, Kotlin, GoLang Databases: Clickhouse, Victoria Metrics, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Databricks, Prometheus Cloud & DevOps: AWS \(RDS, S3, EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda\), Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Helm, Kong Analytics: Datadog, Kibana, Grafana CI/CD: Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, CircleCI AI: Agentic AI Bot Detection, Claude AI Integration

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

aistudio

anthropic apis

antigravity

claude code

claude

gemini

## Work experience

Engineering at Ping Identity, Jan 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 10 mos, Remote, At Ping Identity, I develop browser\-side signal and risk\-evaluation capabilities that help strengthen digital identity and fraud prevention\. My work spans the PingOne Signals Web SDK, JavaScript and TypeScript, behavioral telemetry, device fingerprinting, bot and AI\-agent detection, and integrations that support risk\-informed adaptive MFA\. I work across SDK, Bot Lab validation, and risk\-evaluation workflows, with a focus on reliable signal delivery, browser compatibility, and resilient authentication experiences\. Recent contributions include expanding AI\-agent detection and improving the reliability of behavioral signals used in risk decisions\.

Engineering at Acceldata, Jul 2021 \- Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Was part of core team that was responsible for building and launching Acceldata's cloud based Data\-Observability Platform\. Where user can hook onto their data sources like GCP, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks and accordingly tool shows up the basic analytical monitoring and presents them the recommendations and actions for the same\. Generating time series visualization to build over time representations on charts over various metrics of costs, usage, queries, tags\. Built centralised Alerting & Incidents system for user to create alerts based on data\-sources entities and in return raising incidents against the created alerts like of schema changes, usage, costs\. Building query based Customisable Visualization library using chartJS and d3Js, Later stage this could be open sourced\. Integrated live snowflake data clustering for user to enable clustering on their snowflake tables\. Made a library extended from spline for data flow for data lineage of databricks jobs\.

Senior Software Engineer at The Boston Consulting Group \(BCG\), Aug 2017 \- Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Working as a Full Stack Developer for the Omnia Team to build Platform Infrastructure to onboard Digital Products of BCG and clients onboarding\. Creating a unified Platform to simplify the Authentication flow of BCG users across multiple products be it single or multi tenant, internal or client user and onboarding of tenants onto these products by securing the communication and data flow between multiple products Tech Stack: Angular, Node\.js, Ionic, Postgres, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Microservices, nestsjs

Software Engineer at Manhattan Associates, May 2016 \- Jul 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Development of Omni channel products for retail domains so as to simplify the in house inventory and order processing flow\. Tech Stack :\- Angular, Ionic, Node\.js, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS\.

Co Founder at Quuno, Jun 2015 \- May 2016 · 1 yr, Bengaluru Area, India, At Quuno, we are building India's best curated marketplace for housekeepers to deliver standard and reliable services to households and budget hotels\. This ecosystem is powered by efficient tech\-enabled operations for providing quality service and increased income to housekeepers\. Using technology as a cornerstone for all operations to build our brand value\. From easy onboarding of our Qeepers, job scheduling, demand matching to fulfillment of the service we are automating every aspect of operations by harnessing latest technology\. Exit:\- Tech Ecosystem acquihired by UAE based startup for white collar job in all cash deal of 68 lakhs INR, and full time domestic workers enrolled into Marriott new branch opened at ORR Bangalore as full time housekeeping staff

Software Engineer at Accenture, Feb 2013 \- Jun 2015 · 2 y 4 mo, Bengaluru

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(BE\), Computer Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University

10th, maths, English,Hindi, Chemistry, Commerce, physics,History & Geography,Biology, Dr virendra swarup education centre

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