Hey, I’m Pratik 👋

Senior Full Stack Engineer with over 6 years of experience building scalable backend systems. 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 and rspad - An instant scratchpad for Rust snippets, like RunJS, but for Rust.

The Story Behind rspad

The cargo new Graveyard A few months ago, I started grinding LeetCode in Rust. Coming from TypeScript & Go, my muscle memory kept hunting for a scratchpad, something like RunJS or a terminal REPL where you test a 15-line slice manipulation and immediately see what happens. In Rust, I kept hitting the same friction loop: cargo new leetcode_xyz -> paste into src/main.rs -> cargo run. In less than weeks’ time, my drive had filled with folders for temporary use and huge folders of target/. It seemed insane having to scaffold a whole project to check small syntax. ...

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. ...