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Prateek Sarve

Director Engineering | E-commerce at Scale | 13+ Yrs | Node.js · AWS · Microservices | Open to Senior Engineering Leadership Roles

Pune District

6+ years of work experience

FirstCry.com (BrainBees Solutions Ltd.)
May 20264 mosPresent

Pune City, Maharashtra, India

FirstCry.com (BrainBees Solutions Ltd.)
Oct 20232 yrs 11 mosPresent

Pune District, Maharashtra, India

FirstCry.com (BrainBees Solutions Ltd.)
Feb 20221 yr 10 mosNov 2023

Pune District, Maharashtra, India

Aftara New Media
Jun 201410 mosMar 2015

Developed web-based digital media applications using PHP and JavaScript; delivered client projects on time in a fast-paced agency environment.
Inbetween Services Pvt. Ltd.
Mar 20131 yr 4 mosJun 2014

Built and maintained web applications for clients across multiple domains using PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript; contributed to database design, API integrations, and front-end development.

Prateek’s AI Stack

antigravity
antigravity
codex
codex

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES

Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University

Bachelor's degree, Cse

Mgmcen

20064 yrs2010

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Headline

Director Engineering | E-commerce at Scale | 13+ Yrs | Node.js · AWS · Microservices | Open to Senior Engineering Leadership Roles

About

Leading engineering for Firstcry's app, mobile site, and desktop platform. Key responsibilities and outcomes: → Leading engineering teams across Firstcry Shopping, Parenting, internal tooling, and international logistics → Driving OKR-aligned technical roadmaps in partnership with Product, Design, and Business teams → Reduced platform downtime 40% and improved load times 25% through architectural improvements → Reduced infrastructure costs 20% via cloud migration and performance optimisation → Improved sprint predictability 20% and reduced post-release defects 35% → Championing AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, LLM-based code review) across engineering teams → Event-driven architecture · AWS SQS · GCP Pub/Sub · Microservices · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Redis

Location

Pune District

AI stack

antigravity

codex

Work experience

Director of Engineering at FirstCry.com (BrainBees Solutions Ltd.), May 2026 - Present · 4 mos, Pune City, Maharashtra, India

Asistant Director Engineering at FirstCry.com (BrainBees Solutions Ltd.), Oct 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India

Architect at FirstCry.com (BrainBees Solutions Ltd.), Feb 2022 - Nov 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India

Software Engineer at Aftara New Media, Jun 2014 - Mar 2015 · 10 mos, Developed web-based digital media applications using PHP and JavaScript; delivered client projects on time in a fast-paced agency environment.

Software Engineer at Inbetween Services Pvt. Ltd., Mar 2013 - Jun 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos, Built and maintained web applications for clients across multiple domains using PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript; contributed to database design, API integrations, and front-end development.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University

Bachelor's degree, Cse, Mgmcen

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