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Prateek Dujari is a product reliability engineer in the Data Center Group at Intel Corporation. Prateek is Intel's only totally blind engineer in North America. He collab­orates with technology and product teams throughout the semiconductor server compo­nents' development life cycle to quantify and manage risks, and develop plans to close gaps. He joined Intel as a sighted employee in 1999 and lost his sight in 2001 in a sudden unexpected manner while climbing a glaciated Oregon mountain. He has demonstrated an iron will to thrive by re-charting a successful career at Intel and a fulfilling family and per­sonal life. Prateek earned a master's degree in mechani­cal engineering, has nine technical publications, and holds 16 patents.