Mayank Prabhakar
Mayank Prabhakar Has a Love Of Computers, Languages and Gourmet Food. But His Biggest Challenge Is Coming: A First Child
July 30, 2008
Ask featured consultant Mayank Prabhakar about his career and you begin to understand the breadth of his experience as a middleware architect and integration expert.
(Photo on the right: Mayank and his wife Allison Prabhakar)
With over 10 years of hands-on experience in insurance, health care, banking, education and telecommunications, he is an expert in designing and implementing complex integration solutions needed for difficult projects; the more challenging, the better.
His current project involves large-scale integration of multiple health care systems at a large health care provider with a presence in several states. Not only is the project demanding and technically challenging, but Mayank also feels satisfied that it will enable the client to provide better quality of care.
He enjoys gathering feedback from end users to improve the architecture and functionality of his designs. His work involves wearing many different hats; at different times of the day he can be found mentoring team members, throwing around design ideas or simply developing code. He believes this kind of multi-tasking increases his productivity and keeps him involved in all aspects of the project from planning and design all the way to final implementation.
Mayank's broad knowledge of architecture and technology methodologies makes him the kind of consultant NetEffects seeks out in our untiring effort to provide only the highest quality consultants to our clients.
And for him, working with NetEffects has been a truly remarkable experience. He says he has never encountered a more honest and consultant-friendly vendor. NetEffects cares about their workforce and makes a genuine effort to reach out to its consultants by inviting them to lunches and other social networking events to discuss their experience with their clients. They consider their consultants valuable resources, not just a source of revenue.
He thinks NetEffects has a very bright future.
Ask Mayank about his personal life, and he is proud to announce he and wife Allison are expecting their first child in October.
And he has plenty to say about his multi-talented wife. A translator, Allison speaks four languages and is currently learning a fifth — Mayank’s native Hindi.
Not to be outdone in the language department, Mayank is learning French from Allison, who is also a “multi-lingual chef” cooking authentic Indian, Chinese and Italian cuisine.
Good eating from a gourmet cook has its consequences, so Mayank devotes time to keeping fit. He hikes in local and state parks, works regularly with a personal fitness trainer and once took a walking expedition to the Boundary Waters on the Minnesota/Canada border. It was beautiful, serene . . . and chilly.
For fun, he reads financial publications (including the Wall Street Journal, while exercising) and science fiction. His favorite authors are Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov.
Moving up on the fun-meter, Mayank likes repairing electronics equipment. “Anything I can get my hands on: DVD players, mobile phones, laptops. In college I was the hardware guy.” Watch out Mayank, we predict a steady supply of broken hardware after your colleagues read this.