Pratik Pun

Mar 2026 - Present • London, UK

Build and maintain Python and MariaDB-backed backend APIs powering client-facing analytics features for professional tennis organisations, with Redis for live feeds and a gradual move to AWS for production.

• Built backend APIs for Player Zone, a new player-facing product extending an existing scout-only platform, letting players log in and view in-depth match and tournament stats
• Designed site-specific data scoping so each tennis organisation's players only see their own tournaments, matches and stats
• Optimised the highest-traffic MariaDB queries by introducing a new table and restructuring joins, cutting response time from 3s to 0.3s (~10x faster)
• Used Redis for live match feeds and inter-service message queues

Sept 2023 - Nov 2025 • London, UK

Built and operated Python-based backend APIs and automation pipelines for distributed network systems.

• Developed RESTful APIs with OpenAPI, ensuring reliable integration across distributed systems
• Reduced manual configuration time by ~40% through automation pipelines
• Maintained 90%+ test coverage using TDD with Pytest
• Created proof-of-concept tools adopted across engineering teams

Jan 2023 - Aug 2023 • London, UK

Delivered production-ready full-stack web applications within Agile sprints.

• Led a small project team using GitHub for version control and code reviews
• Built React interfaces consuming REST APIs with responsive layouts
• Implemented unit tests with Jest ensuring code stability

2019 - 2022 • Swansea, UK

Graduated with honours. Dissertation project: Gurkha One mobile application.

• Built end-to-end mobile app with React Native, Express, and TypeScript
• Designed relational data models with TypeORM and MySQL
• Implemented REST APIs with JWT authentication