Abhishek Gautam

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led a team of 15 in high-stakes projects.
Architected a successful app with over 20K users.
Certified trainer in DevOps methodologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-stack Developer with strong expertise in SaaS and Cloud Services.

Contact

agautam@microsoft.com +917975418344 LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Full-stack DevelopmentTeam ManagementCloud ServicesBackend DevelopmentDevopsWeb Development

Other Skills

AI AutomationAPI DeploymentAPI GatewayAPI OptimizationAWS CodePipelineAWS Elastic BeanstalkAWS Infrastructure ManagementAWS LambdaAccessibility InsightsAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAmazon CloudFrontAmazon EC2Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)Amazon S3

About

I’m a Software Engineer with 8 years of experience in the field, including backend, frontend, and DevOps. I am managing a team of 15 people and taking care of the DevOps too. I am currently working at Microsoft, as a full-stack developer. I was a Chief Technology Officer at Leanpitch and architected the Leanpitch app which has more than 20K users. I started my career as a frontend developer and worked on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, as well as on frontend frameworks which include ReactJS (Gatsby and NextJS) and Angular. I started working on the backend from PHP and then Ruby on Rails. After that, I also worked on the Python framework Django. I am also an ICAgile Certified Professional - Foundations of DevOps (ICP-FDO) trainer and have conducted more than 5 training.

Experience

Microsoft

SDE - 2

Jun 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

Working on Succession Planning, a tool that takes data from multiple sources and helps leaders to
plan their successors.
Working on Succession Planning, a tool which takes data from multiple sources and helps leaders to plan their successors.
● Leading the team, making sure we deliver with high quality in a timely manner.
● Led project planning and execution to meet a strict Microsoft security compliance deadline, ensuring timely, high-quality delivery by coordinating effectively with the team and maintaining a strong focus on security standards
● Worked on the optimization of auth service to reduce the API time taken from 10-20 secs to less than 5 sec.
● Took an initiative to have a design discussion for our team.
● Fixed a release pipeline which was not setup correctly, for our UI and also enabled accessibility insights for our app which keeps check to make our app accessible to everyone.
● Onboarded our team to RAMUS for watchdog alerts for our services.
● Built an end to end audit tool for my project, single handedly worked on the design, architecture and completed it for 16 items.
● Working closely with the project manager to filter out the things to be worked on for the next sprint.
● Participated in multiple hackathons, on openAI.
● Apart from my current project working on multiple org level initiative spans across multiple teams eg: Inclusion CoPilot , Live Site Review.
● Working on a tool ADO Test Co-Assist which helps automating E2E test cases end to end utilising AI capabilities to generate automated test cases.

Succession PlanningAPI OptimizationTeam LeadershipDesign DiscussionAccessibility InsightsAudit Tool Development+3

Lti - larsen & toubro infotech

Specialist - Cloud Services and Software

Jul 2021 – Jun 2022 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked as a lead for one of the projects for LTI. My responsibility includes:
Working on the backend for the project. We are following a micro-service architecture using AWS Lambda and API gateway.
Working on designing the architecture for the upcoming features.
Managing a team of 12 developers and also coordinating with BA, testing team, project manager, and Client.
Working closely with the project manager to filter out the things to be worked on for the next sprint.
Helping team to resolve the blocker if there are any.
DevOps - IAM, EC2, Load Balancer, S3, Cloudfront, RDS, Codepipeline and Route53, lambda, and API gateway.

Micro-service ArchitectureAWS LambdaAPI GatewayTeam ManagementDevOpsCloud Services+1

Leanpitch technologies private limited

2 roles

Chief Solutions Architect

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Leanpitch is an organization that provides Agile & Scrum Training in over 11 countries and over 32 cities. I was part of the team which implemented the following changes.
Managed AWS infrastructure to deploy, and scale the codebase.
Managing team of 10 people for Leanpitch.
All the static websites are hosted using AWS S3 as serverless websites which reduces the cost of keeping a server for static websites too.
Static websites are deployed using CloudFront to make it faster so that users can get the data as and when they hit the URL.
To deploy the API code we are using AWS EC2 with one worker box.
We are using an AWS load balancer to balance to load between the boxes so that our APIs will be highly available.
To make our system more secure we are using IAM ( Identity and Access Management ).
We are also using CodePipeline so that it's easy for the developers to deploy the code easily.
Devops - IAM, EC2, Load Balancer, S3, Cloudfront, RDS, Codepipeline and Route53.

AWS Infrastructure ManagementServerless ArchitectureAPI DeploymentTeam ManagementCloud ServicesDevOps

Full-stack Developer

Mar 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

Leanpitch is an organization that provides Agile & Scrum Training in over 11 countries and over 32 cities. I was part of the team which implemented the following changes.
Worked on end-to-end product development for the Leanpitch web application.
Created a web app that has an SEO rating of 98 which is above avarage for a website that helped to increase the organic traffic on Leanpitch.
Reduced the operational burden by integrating the payment system in the web app itself.
Created a dashboard for the participants that they can access lifetime once they have registered for training.
Created a CMS(Content Management System) for the trainers to upload their data on the website so that the changes can be done easily and as and when needed.
Enabled the refer and earn functionality in the web app itself to reduce the operational burden.
Also worked on the Leanpitch app with minimal functionality so that users can get the notification about any new things happening on Leanpitch. We have used react-native for our app.
We are using Django as a backend API and using ReactJS(Gatsby) as a frontend framework for the web app.

End-to-End Product DevelopmentSEO OptimizationPayment IntegrationCMS DevelopmentFull-stack DevelopmentWeb Development

99tests

Full Stack Developer

Jul 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

99tests is a crowd testing platform which gave a common platform for client and QA to test their product. I was part of the team which implemented the following changes
Worked on a feature that allowed clients to upload test cases for their products. These were then tested by the QAs assigned to the client.
Also worked on product development lifecycle for a client, right from requirement gathering to feature development and deploying it to production.
Tech stack used - HTML, CSS, Javascript, RoR and Postgres

Feature DevelopmentRequirement GatheringProduct Lifecycle ManagementFull-stack Development