Staff Engineer · Tokyo · Available for freelance
Pratik
Bodkhe
I design test automation at scale, performance systems, and multi-agent AI — and ship consumer products on the side. More than a decade of quality engineering, now pointed at agents.
01 / The operator
Quality engineer by trade, product builder by habit.
I lead test strategy, automation architecture, and performance systems for production apps — then turn around and ship consumer products on the side. The QA brain and the builder brain, shipping together.
For hire
- Test automation architecture
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- Performance engineering
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- AI agent systems
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- Product engineering
02 / Products
Things I've shipped.
Real products, real users, live domains. Not a pile of half-finished side projects — each one shipped, polished, and maintained.
JapMiner
Photo → Japanese flashcards
Snap a picture of Japanese text. A vision model extracts, segments, and turns it into SRS flashcards — no copy-paste, no manual work.
Problem
Mining real-world Japanese is slow and fiddly.
Approach
VLM-powered capture → auto-segmentation → spaced repetition.
Kaizen Flow
All-in-one Japanese learning
Spaced repetition, grammar drills, AI conversation partner, and sound-first training. One system, everything a learner needs.
Problem
Language learners juggle 5 apps and still miss fundamentals.
Approach
Unified SRS + AI tutor + sound-first pedagogy in one flow.
MoodFlow
Mood tracking with AI insights
Log how you feel. AI finds patterns, triggers, and trends you'd never spot manually. Quiet, private, built for consistency.
Problem
Mood journaling rots without pattern recognition.
Approach
Lightweight capture + AI-surfaced trends on your data.
Excel Translator Agent
JP→EN with zero formatting loss
Multi-agent system that translates Japanese Excel while preserving every style, formula, and merged cell. No data loss, no manual cleanup.
Problem
Translating Excel files destroys formatting. Every time.
Approach
Specialized agents for parse, translate, and re-format — orchestrated.
03 / Experience
Over a decade, compounding.
Quality engineering → reliability → automation architecture → AI agents. Each chapter added a layer. The work got bigger, the stack got deeper.
2025 — Present
Staff Engineer
Automotive · Consumer app · Tokyo
Leading test strategy and automation architecture for a production consumer app used daily in vehicles. Building multi-agent AI systems for internal workflows.
- Architected end-to-end test automation across Android, iOS, and backend
- Shipped multi-agent systems for internal ops, grounded in MCP
- Owns CI/CD strategy, performance gates, and release quality
2021 — 2025
Quality Engineering
Fintech · BNPL · Tokyo
3.5 years driving frontend and backend test automation, API frameworks, and performance testing at scale across a regulated consumer finance product.
- Designed API automation framework (Node.js + Superagent) — published on Medium
- Led stakeholder-facing quality for high-traffic payment flows
- Frontend + backend test strategy, estimation, agile delivery
2019 — 2021
Senior Reliability Engineer
News & Media Platform · Bengaluru
Site reliability and quality engineering for a news delivery platform serving millions. Microservices-heavy, CI-first.
- Reliability automation across microservices and CI pipelines
- On-call debugging, root-cause analysis, and runbook tooling
2015 — 2019
04 / Contact
Let's build
something.
Based in Tokyo. Open to selective freelance — test architecture, performance engineering, AI agent systems, or a product that needs shipping. Say hi, tell me what you're building.
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