Gaurav Kumar

CEO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India14 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over a decade of experience in technology leadership.
  • Expert in building scalable SaaS platforms.
  • Proven track record in AI-driven automation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS technology leader with expertise in AI and engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product StrategyLeadership & Team BuildingFull-stack DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

ASP.NETASP.NET MVCAlgorithmsApplication InsightsCC#C++CSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Cloud & SaaS ArchitectureCloud load testingData StructuresDistributed SystemsEclipseHTML

About

I am a technology leader and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building scalable SaaS platforms, leading engineering teams, and driving innovation in HR tech. Currently, I serve as the Co-founder & CTO of TurboHire, where I lead product and technology strategy, enabling enterprises to streamline recruitment through AI-driven automation. Previously, I spent 5+ years at Microsoft, contributing to products like Bing, MSN Health, and Visio (desktop & online), where I worked on large-scale distributed systems, microservices, and collaboration tools. My core expertise lies in building high-performance engineering teams, scaling SaaS architectures, and applying AI/ML to solve complex business problems. I am passionate about transforming ideas into products that deliver measurable impact.

Experience

Turbohire

3 roles

Co-founder & CTO

Promoted

May 2023Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Product StrategyLeadership & Team Building

VP of Engineering

Nov 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

Co-founder & COO

Sep 2018Dec 2023 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Microsoft

4 roles

Software Engineer II

Aug 2017Sep 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

C#JavaScriptHTMLCSSASP.NETDistributed Systems+2

Software Development Engineer

Nov 2014Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • JULY 2015 - Present
  • Current working in Microsoft Office Team (Visio)
  • Worked on Visio Online
  • Worked as a full stack developer to bring Visio Desktop experience to the online world. I got to work on the backend to service and front end in this endeavor.
  • Proficiency: Script Sharp C#, javascript, C++, Html, CSS, SVG Rendering, PNG rendering, Caching, Deployment, Autopilot, Azure, Coauthoring, Collaboration
  • Worked on Visio Services (SharePoint)
  • Worked in On-premise version of Visio Online on SharePoint. Data connection, WebParts, Web APIs
  • Worked on Visio Extensibility
  • Worked on developing Visio APIs for consumption in various platform
  • Proficiency: Javascript, react.js
  • Worked on Visio Desktop application
  • Worked on Visio Desktop application for the various feature.
  • NOVEMBER 2014 - JUNE 2015
  • Worked on MSN complete re-design, in the health vertical (see http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/)
  • Involved in web development: Creating server-side web-services using ASP.NET (C#) and client-side development (HTML5 Canvas, JQuery / JavaScript).
  • Developed Static Failover for msn.com
  • This service will continuously crawl and cache the static view of the pages. These static pages will be displayed to the user in the event of failure. Mostly, the static view will be same or very similar to the actual page. Hence, impact on the user is minimized, and almost seamless till system recovers.
  • Developed Performance gating setup for MSN
  • Setup automated cloud load tests and web tests using VSTS and visual studio APIs which gets triggered automatically on new build deployment. These run on the production like environment, either continuously/ or on-request to determine the quality of build package. ETW Analysis captures the performance of all the units and suspects regression. The build goes live only if it passes the Performance criterion.
C#JavaScriptSeleniumSoftware Engineering

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2013Sep 2018 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Software Development Engineer in Test

Jun 2013Oct 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Automated UI and Non-UI tests to verify required modules for 55 msn markets using Selenium.
  • Automated localization testing (language verification) using Bing Translator API to test correct localization of texts in international languages.
  • Automated UI and Non-UI tests using selenium and C# for quality gating msn.com.

Festember

Chairman

May 2012Apr 2013 · 11 mos · Tiruchirappalli

  • Festember is the national-level cultural festival of the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. It is held annually in the third week of September when college students from all over India participate in various cultural, literary and artistic events to compete for the coveted "Festember Rolling Trophy".

Ibm

Extreme Blue Intern

May 2012Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Bangalore

  • To develop portal for monitoring and regulating the distribution of portable water based on the readings of instrumentation installed on the pipelines using IBMs Intelligent Operations Centre and Intelligent Operation Core

Student association nit trichy

President

Apr 2012May 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · Tiruchirappalli

  • Dedicated to the promotion of welfare, upliftment and betterment of the student community at NIT Trichy. Worked to ensure all necessary facilities for complete and meaningful education – hostel, library and laboratory, sports and games, athletics and physical training, culture and entertainment, and other educative and social activities – that will be adequate and within the reach of all students.

Power grid corporation of india

Winter Trainee

Dec 2011Jan 2012 · 1 mo · Greater Delhi Area

  • Successfully completed industrial in-plant training in LD&C Department of Power Grid to get an overview of Power Transmission in India and methods like SCADA involved in complete control over inter-State Transmission System. Introduced to ongoing projects on Smart Grid for improvement in Transmission.

Nittfest

Head of Public Relations

Sep 2011Apr 2012 · 7 mos · NIT Tiruchirappalli

  • NITTFEST is NIT Trichy's annual 4-day inter-department cultural festival involving the participation of over 4000 students.

Indian institute of management, bangalore

Summer Trainee

May 2011Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Developed a software called "Interactive Study Guide" which helps in solving problems of the book - "Financial Accounting - A Managerial Perspective 4e" written by Prof. R Narayanaswamy.

Education

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

Engineer's Degree — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jan 2009Jan 2013

DAV Public School

High School — Maths Stream

Jan 2006Jan 2008

St. Paul's Academy, Patna

Matriculation

Jan 1996Jan 2006

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