Gaurav Awadhwal

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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia13 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Led a 40+ engineer team in AI & ML.
Developed Atlassian's first ML-based recommender system.
Managed analytics pipelines processing 10 billion events daily.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on AI and Machine Learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningGenaiProblem SolvingDistributed Systems

Other Skills

CCustomer ServiceDatabase AdministrationDevOpsHTMLInferenceJavaJavaScriptLong-term VisionMarketing StrategyMatlabMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficePhotoshopProject Management

About

I'm passionate about technology and using data to solve big problems

Experience

Atlassian

9 roles

Head of Engineering, AI & ML Platform

Promoted

Aug 2025 – Present · 7 mos

Leading & growing the engineering teams building the Machine Learning platform - now 40+ engineers in 3+ Geos - empowering ML & AI teams across the company - while ensuring trust & data compliance for our customers.
Our platform powers genAI, personalisation and search for millions of Atlassian users using Atlassian Rovo
Ive lead the team through various milestones - launching our inhouse model hosting platform, ML data and training platform, feature store capabilities, AI Gateway, and GPU compute infrastructure.
I lead Atlassians commercial relationship with our AI partners like OpenAI, Anthropic and Nvidia.

GenaiMachine LearningInference

Senior Engineering Manager - AI & ML Platform

Promoted

Sep 2023 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

Engineering Manager - Analytics Pipelines

Jan 2022 – Sep 2022 · 8 mos

I was the manager in charge of spinning up this new team, and being the interim manager for the first phase of the team's growth, in parallel to my responsibility managing the Machine Learning Platform team.
The Analytics Pipeline team owns Atlassian's product analytics ingestion & processing pipeline - processing 10 Billion+ events a day, and being critical to all product analytics, ML and in-product insight experiences for Atlassian.
My role was to help spin up this dedicated team to take ownership and improve these pipelines, hire & grow talent and promote the team's mission within Atlassian.

Problem SolvingDistributed SystemsTeam ManagementLong-term Vision

Engineering Manager - Machine Learning Platform

Nov 2021 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

Problem SolvingDistributed SystemsTeam ManagementLong-term Vision

Senior Software Engineer (Smarts Engineering)

Promoted

Mar 2021 – Dec 2021 · 9 mos

Working on ML based smart features and tooling for Atlassian's cloud products. Developing Microservices and User Experiences using Technologies such as Apache Spark, Tensorflow, Java/Springboot & Javascript.
Built and launched Atlassians first ML based recommender systems
Most recently I lead a project to bring a semantic text similarity model to Jira to help users detect duplicates & similar problems quickly.

Problem SolvingDistributed SystemsLong-term Vision

Developer (Search & Smarts Engineering)

Nov 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Problem SolvingDistributed Systems

Developer (Data Engineering)

Aug 2018 – Nov 2018 · 3 mos

Working on Atlassian's product data pipelines and big data platforms

Problem SolvingDistributed Systems

Graduate Developer (Data Engineering)

Aug 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr

Problem SolvingDistributed Systems

Analytics Platform Engineering Intern

Nov 2016 – Aug 2017 · 9 mos

Problem SolvingDistributed Systems

Parts australia

Integration Project Coordinator

Dec 2013 – Nov 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Managed data, created websites and provided marketing assistance for clients in the automotive aftermarket part business
Project managed large scale data acquisition, and website development within strict deadlines..
Coordinated a group of offshore contractors, including remote meetings, working with the team to meet deadlines, providing QA and feedback on work.
Advanced use of Microsoft Excel Macros, basic management of MySQL, and a variety of web platforms.
Worked using TecDoc Automotive data standard.
Managed leads using CRM software for prospective clients and marketing network.
Provided client support, demos and training.

Problem Solving

University of new south wales

Alumni Communications Program

Apr 2013 – Jun 2013 · 2 mos

Participated in the outreach program to University alumni
Updated the alumni on the university and took note of their feedback
Engaged the alumni to encourage involvement in the university programs
Raised funds for the disadvantaged student scholarship appeal

Problem Solving

Dick smith electronics

Sales Assistant

Dec 2010 – Feb 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos

Worked as a salesperson on the store floor of a consumer electronics store.
Engaged customers in the sales process, including identifying benefits for their needs and closing sales.
Communicated with customers and assisted them with finding appropriate products
Troubleshooting technical issues, managed stock, and processed finance applications