About
I'm Pratik. Since 2023 I've run Datamagnet end to end: a real-time API for B2B people and company data, from the edge router and the API to the PostgreSQL warehouse, billing, docs and sales. It returns 75+ fields per profile in under 200 ms.
Alongside it I publish 95 scrapers on Apify that have run 2.6 million times, and I build the agent pipelines that keep both businesses moving: content, prospecting and scraper generation, each with gates so they run unattended.
Before founding anything I spent five years shipping NLP models at Accenture, Capgemini and Xceedance. Now I take on a small number of fractional engagements with founders who need that mix: someone who can design the system, build the first version, and run the team that takes it from there.
Services
Data platforms and APIs
The backend that turns messy sources into a stable product: ingestion, storage, search, rate limits and billing. I run one in production today.
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Cloudflare Workers
AI agents that ship
Agent pipelines with real quality gates, cost budgets and human checkpoints, so they run unattended and fail loudly instead of quietly.
- Claude Agent SDK
- LangGraph
- MCP
Scrapers and data collection
Collection at scale, with the retries, error isolation and cost tracking that keep it reliable. I know what breaks and what it costs.
- Apify
- Python
- Playwright
Technical leadership
Architecture reviews, hiring loops, vendor and cloud cost decisions, and a written plan the founders can hold me to.
- AWS
- GCP
- Terraform
Engagement
4 to 8 hours a month
Advisory
A standing call plus async review. Architecture decisions, hiring loops, and a second opinion before you sign a vendor contract.
1 to 2 days a week
Fractional CTO
I own the technical roadmap, run planning and reviews with your engineers, and report to the founders in writing.
Fixed scope
Build
I build the first version of the system myself, document it, and hand it to your team or keep running it with them.
The first 30 days
- 1.A written assessment of the codebase, infrastructure, security posture and cloud spend.
- 2.An architecture decision log: what we keep, what we replace, and why.
- 3.A hiring plan or a delivery plan, whichever you need first, with 60- and 90-day checkpoints.
A good fit
- Founder-led companies whose product is data, an API or an AI agent
- Teams with engineers but nobody senior enough to make the tradeoffs
- Products that collect, enrich or serve web data at scale
Not a fit
- Mobile apps or design-led consumer products
- A CTO title on the deck with no change to how the team ships
- Anything that needs me on site; I work remotely from Gurgaon
Experience
2023 – now
Founder & CEO · Datamagnet
Built and run the company end to end: product, infrastructure, billing, sales and content. Cold outbound I designed and ran brought 300% more sign-ups.
- Python
- Flask
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- AWS
- GCP
- Next.js
2021 – 2026
Data Science Consultant · Accenture
Built a hiring accelerator that made job-description writing 200% faster and cut time-to-hire by 50%, plus early LLM tools for natural-language-to-SQL.
- Python
- LLMs
- NER
- XGBoost
2019 – 2021
Data Scientist, NLP · Capgemini
Fine-tuned an XLNet compliance classifier to F1 97+, running 1,000+ documents each weekend through a CI/CD pipeline to OpenShift.
- XLNet
- Docker
- Jenkins
- OpenShift
2018 – 2019
Data Science Analyst · Xceedance
An LSTM entity extractor pulling 27 fields at F1 94+ doubled the insurance operations team's processing capacity.
- LSTM
- NER
- Python
2014 – 2018
B.Tech, Applied Petroleum Engineering · UPES, Dehradun
Projects
Datamagnet
Live · 2023 – now
Real-time B2B people and company data API
- Python
- Flask
- gunicorn
- FastAPI
- SQLAlchemy
Datamagnet Signals
Live · 2026 – now
Scheduled monitors that turn LinkedIn activity into webhook alerts
- Python 3.13
- FastAPI
- psycopg2
- Pydantic
- PostgreSQL
Data Slayer
Live · 2024 – now
95 pay-per-result social media scrapers on Apify Store
- Python 3.11
- Apify SDK
- asyncio
- aiohttp and httpx
- JSON input and output schemas
Blogpipe
Internal · 2026
Autonomous blog pipeline with quality gates, from topic to published post
- Python 3.13
- Claude Agent SDK
- Streamlit
- Node.js (publish script)
- PostgreSQL
Actor Creator Agent
Internal · 2026
Agent pipeline that turns an API manifest into a published Apify actor
- Python 3.13
- FastAPI
- Celery
- SQLAlchemy (async)
- Alembic
Honeyguide
Live · 2026
Self-updating catalogue site for 95 Apify scrapers
- Next.js 16 (App Router)
- React 19
- Tailwind CSS 4
- MDX
- Python 3 pipeline
Contact
Working on something that needs a data or AI backend, or a technical lead for a few days a week? Email [email protected] or use the form. I reply within two working days.