Gaurav Srivastava

CTO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India16 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Recognized among India’s Top 25 AI Leaders.
Scaled BHIM transactions from 800K to 4M daily.
Spearheaded TataNeu superapp launch during IPL 2022.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce architect with expertise in scalable cloud-native solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipEnterprise ArchitectureAgile MethodologiesIt StrategyCloud InfrastructureCloud Management

Other Skills

AI-driven hyper-personalizationAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache FlinkApplication Performance ManagementAugmented RealityBudget MonitoringCloud ApplicationsCloud ComputingData StructuresDatabasesDebuggingDeep LearningDesign PatternsDistributed DatabaseDistributed Systems

About

Founding Technology Head with a proven track record of scaling high-performance teams, driving system resilience, and leading complex tech migrations. Recognized among India’s Top 25 AI Leaders, with expertise in digital payments, AI-driven innovation, and cloud-native architectures. Successfully managed a ₹200 Cr technology portfolio, optimizing Capex & Opex for efficiency and scalability. Spearheaded the launch of TataNeu superapp, handling 250K concurrent users, and BHIM’s transformation, boosting transactions. Expert in enterprise architecture, Agile transformations, microservices, and AI-driven Martech solutions. A visionary in P&L-driven tech strategy, risk management, and compliance, driving digital evolution across FinTech, Telecom, and E-commerce domains. Contact Info: Email-Id : srigaurav1986@gmail.com Mobile: +919953996631

Experience

National payments corporation of india (npci)

Head of Technology- BHIM

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

Key Achievements
Recognized among India’s Top 25 AI Leaders by Analytics India Magazine, honoured w/ Excellence in BFSI award.
Scaled BHIM daily transactions from 800K to 4M through strategic features and a 50x capacity increase w/ infrastructure optimizations.
Key Engagements
Launched BHIM 3.0 React Native app with upgraded UX, Sentry-based front-end and EFK-backed backend observability; integrated CMS, CDN, and AI-driven hyper-personalization using Iceberg, Superset, Trinio and Apache Flink.
Managed P&L of a ~200 Cr tech division, optimizing 140 Cr Capex and 52 Cr Opex for maximum efficiency.
Spearheaded digital transformation of Payment Service Provider (PSP) services from nodeJs based monolithic to Java based microservices, achieving Active-Active resiliency across two data centres with a distributed database YugaByte for enhanced scalability and fault tolerance.
Scaled BHIM Tech team from 25 to 265 members in 6 months, streamlining hiring amid organizational changes.
Successfully launched strategic innovations, including UPI Circle and Interoperable Cash Deposit (ICD), at Global Fintech Fest 2024, while integrating a Martech stack to empower BHIM with data-driven decision-making capabilities.
Drove Agile transformation, enhancing cross-functional collaboration and delivery efficiency.

Vendor ManagementCloud ManagementLeadershipStrategic ThinkingInformation TechnologyDatabases+7

Tata digital

2 roles

Lead Architect

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

Leading Experience and performance architecture across organization for B2B2C TataNeu Application
Key Engagements
Led end-to-end architecture along with lean team of domain architects/leads to launch TataNeu superapp using micro-service driven design at scale during IPL 2022.
Worked across organizations under Tata ecosystem to make partner brand transitions smoother in TataNeu app by understanding every brand’s architecture and providing them recommendations for faster handshaking.
Setup guidelines across organization for performance modelling, scale unit analysis and non-functional user experience metrics after cross collaboration with application, platform, and IT operation team.

Cloud ManagementLeadershipEnterprise ArchitectureStrategic ThinkingCloud InfrastructureDatabases+3

Performance Architect

Oct 2021 – Mar 2022 · 5 mos

Cloud ManagementCloud InfrastructureDatabasesInformation TechnologyIT StrategyPerformance Metrics

Wipro

Architect at CTO Office

Aug 2016 – May 2021 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Led a globally dispersed team of engineers, UX experts and technical managers for a B2C customer in digital domain interacting various sales and delivery stakeholders.
Designing and scaling visual engagement based Fintech solution to allow existing and first-time users with enhanced customer satisfaction.
Conceptualizing,implementing and scaling Augmented Reality solution for Visual Assistance using OCR and Deep learning techniques via TFOD and Yolo.Designed offline OCR based end to end product.
Designed Remote Collaboration solution based out of WebRTC involving Web App and native apps. Also developed screen-sharing browser extension with more than 1.7 lac users.
Designing and developing web based live speech-driven LipSync for 3D humanoid Virtual Avatars..
OpenSource Contribution:
https://github.com/srigaurav1986/togetherjs for Co-Browsing
https://github.com/srigaurav1986/speech-driven-lipsync for VR avatar's lipsync
https://github.com/srigaurav1986/hubs-chrome-screensharing for Mozilla Hubs extension

Cloud ManagementCloud InfrastructureDatabasesInformation TechnologyIT Strategy

Payoda technologies

Architect

Aug 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr

Worked abroad on site at client location headquartered at Norwalk,USA for understanding business requirements and providing technical architecture layout to meet them.
Brought in to review the architecture, prepare the utmost scalability,assess everything and scaled to 70 K users .
Respond to RFPs/RFIs during sales cycles on technical solution and infrastructure. Propose a solution strategy leading the architecture and design of the product.
Supervised and guided a team of 26 members towards the product delivery.

Cloud ManagementStartupsCloud InfrastructureDatabasesInformation TechnologyIT Strategy

Globallogic

Associate Consultant- Engineering

Dec 2013 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Noida Area, India

1.Optimized SBC server code to scale from very few Vnets/realms to 1024 Vnets/Realms by reducing cache population and parallelization of independent processes.This involves reducing very high system bring-up time caused by inefficient software running on multi-core machines.
2.WebRTC Media Server conference development using Client APIs from open-source Kurento.
3. Proof Of Concept(POC) for WebRTC solution via SBC and a proprietary Media gateway.
Added new signaling transport SIP over WebSockets(RFC 7118) in SBC,involving lots of R&D of constantly changing Web and benchmarking of several OpenSources.
Integrating end to end framework starting from WebServers to SIP core network to establish bidirectional Audio/Video streaming between WebRTC and normal SIP endpoints.
Developing a lightweight utility application to convert MEGACO messages into MGCP and vice versa.
4. Performance tuning,scale and memory usage of SBC.
Core Skills: C , C++,Design patterns,Hadoop,Linux , STUN/TURN/ICE, SRTP over DTLS/SDES,SIP,Firewall
OpenSource Experties: Intel DPDK,NoPoll,Vtune Profiler,IPtables,ARPTables,Kurento

Agnity,inc

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Jan 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos · Noida Area, India

1. Played crucial role in scaling TURN servers supporting millions of NAT clients for Belkin- WeMo IoT Devices,
2. Played solo role in designing and developing ICE NAT client for WeMo IoT Switches and sensors application over embedded devices.
3. Played solo role in designing and developing streaming client application over embedded devices.
Core Skills: C , Linux , NAT traversal protocols STUN/TURN/ICE, IoT
OpenSource Experties: PJSIP

Aricent group

Senior software engineer

Aug 2008 – Dec 2011 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

Worked as a core software developer in improving the performance of TCP stack.
Developed Windows 7 64 bit Filter device driver for improving TCP stack performance.
Redesigned Proxy server framework for scalability and improved performance monitoring.
Done part implementation in the core areas i.e. Configuration and Commissioning of Base Trans-receiver Stations.
Core Skills: C Linux, Windows 7 64 bit,NDIS, WLK,WDK, System Programming,POSIX Multithreading