Hey, I’m Pratik 👋

Senior Full Stack Engineer with over 6 years of experience building scalable backend systems, recently handling millions of transactions a day at Razorpay. I work with Node.js, Go, React, MongoDB and AWS — currently at Synechron (Emirates NBD), and previously at Razorpay where I built distributed microservice, handling digital bills.

On this blog I write about backend engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and AI-assisted development — things I encounter and learn on the job.

I’m currently building ApiHealthz.com — an API uptime monitoring and alerting platform with notifications directly to your WhatsApp & Slack.

Full-Stack Setup with Duoo

How many times have you had an exciting idea for a side project or prototype, only to spend your entire evening configuring boilerplate? Before writing a single line of business logic, you are already stuck wrestling with: Initializing a React SPA with Vite and configuring TypeScript. Creating an Express backend, configuring a separate tsconfig.json, and setting up tsx or ts-node for live reloads. Linking client and server via npm workspaces so you don’t have to copy-paste DTOs and interfaces across two separate codebases. Juggling scripts to run both servers concurrently without port collisions or CORS headaches. By the time the dev environment is finally wired up, half the creative momentum has vanished. ...

My First Blog Post

Hey, the site is alive! 👋 After way too many tabs open and one too many config tweaks, this blog is finally up. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, having a small corner of the internet that’s actually mine, not buried inside someone else’s platform. I went with Hugo and the PaperMod theme. Clean, fast, no database or hosting issue. Why Hugo though? Honestly? I didn’t want to deal with a CMS. I write in Markdown anyway, so the whole flow just clicked, edit a file, push, and the article is live. Hugo builds the entire site in under a second which is the best part what I liked the most. ...