Pratyush Vashisht

About Me

My expertise is finding tech solutions to the problems you have, or the ones you didn't even realise you had.

Work Experience

Booking.com

[Feb'17 - Present]

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Engineering Manager (Software)

[Sep'19 - Present]

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• Leading a team of 7 engineers managing the transactional policies (cancellation, prepayment, no-show policies) on the guest side of Booking.com accommodations.
• Improved the team's agile processes with JIRA automations and add-ons, reducing the issue processing time by 90%.
• Leading the improvements in the team's automated testing and general development processes resulted in the team becoming the fastest App team in the company for PR turn-around time.
• Previously, led the rebuilding of the system that allowed guests to pay at the property without transferring their card details to the property partners while still being able to charge the fees as needed. We then scaled it from two EU countries to the whole EEA.
• Improved and maintained the whole horizontal flow of multiple settings that allow customers to book a property without adding any card details while maintaining the risk/reward balance for the partners.
• Responsible for vertical growth of two FTEs and mentoring others for more horizontal exposure.
• Reporting on and improving the team's output with regular 1 - 1s, brainstorms, and feedback sessions, coordinating with stakeholders from leadership and other Booking products.
• Successfully mentored a colleague from Booking.com's catering supplier for programming, who is now a Cloud Engineer.
• Part of the Emergency Response Team (BHV) in the company, to volunteer in case of any first aid requirement, firefighting, or evacuation. I also volunteer for HartSlagNu, the resuscitation call system in the Netherlands.

Full Stack Software Developer

[Sep'19 - Sep'19]

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• Having worked on the backend code for close to a year, I made a lateral switch to a full stack developer.
• However, the same month, I was promoted to a management role.
• Onboarded and mentored 4 developers to the team.

Frontend Software Developer

[Jan'18 - Sep'19]

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• My team worked on giving the guests who do not have/don't want to use credit cards, the best possible experience in reserving the accommodations by giving them the flexibility of payments while working with our partners to provide the security of those reservations.
• Took interviews for the role of Full Stack Software Developer.
• Mentoring developers to help them onboard in the company.

Graduate Developer

[Feb'17 - Jan'18]

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• Worked in the localisation team to improve the property booking experience for the US market.
• Also had a rotation in the PayIn team to create a seamless payment platform for anyone buying or selling an experience.
• The final rotation was in Booking Suite to help properties decide a better rates for the rooms they're offering.

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Practo

[Jan'16 - Jan'17]

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Software Developer

[May'16 - Jan'17]

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• Implemented SEO, including Schema.org, among other aspects of SEO during the project, using Yahoo's Fluxible framework and React.js.
• Implemented the new search flow in the mobile website, worked on various trackers that helped us investigate user behaviour, and contributed to redesigning the website

Software Engineering Intern

[Jan'16 - May'16]

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• Created an internal ToDo app while learning new technologies used at Practo. Used express (nodejs) and reactjs.
• Worked on the new mobile website of Practo in front end / SEO implementation and other features.

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Internships

[May'14 - Nov'14]

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Web development intern at ConfirmTkt

[Aug'14 - Nov'14]

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• Created the first MVP for ConfirmTkt's mobile website, which increased conversion by more than 40% with a much better User Experience.
• Used the ConfirmTkt APIs to get status of a PNR and its probability of getting confirmed.
• Integrated the taxi fare module in the desktop site that gave the users the distance between two locations in a city and the estimated time to travel. It also gave you the estimated fare by major taxi providers in that city and their phone numbers.
• Worked on the "Booking food on train" functionality in association with Travelkhana.

Software development intern at Magicbricks

[May'14 - Jun'14]

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• My responsibilities included working on company's micro projects related to Java.
• I did a project on MagicBricks Newsletter Automation and also learnt JSP/Servlets, jQuery, AJAX during my internship at MagicBricks.com
• After I implemented the review/rating page to the MagicBricks newsletter for 300+ brokers, the number of reviews grew by 25%. The data was fetched from Excel files and turned into the newsletter pages using Java, Apache Velocity, and Apache POI.

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Projects

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Browser Extensions

3 projects

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Classic Web Search

A browser extension to automatically redirect your Google searches to the classic web-only version.

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• Available on Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Edge
• Open Source, available on GitHub.
• Especially important with the rising AI hallucinations and increasing clutter on the Google search page.

Force Paster

A browser extension that allows you to paste text in websites that have disabled or blocked pasting.

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• Available on Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Edge
• Open Source, available on GitHub.
• 3500+ weekly users in 100+ countries.

SignatureSync Pro

A browser extension to add signatures to your LinkedIn messages.

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• Available on Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Edge
• Open Source, available on GitHub.
• Currently 100+ weekly users.
• Previously pubilshed as "LinkedIn Signatures" with 2000+ weekly users, it was taken down by Google due to a legal notice from LinkedIn.

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