Gaurav Sehgal

CTO

Faridabad, Haryana, India20 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

20 years of experience in engineering leadership.
Led teams across multiple global locations.
Successfully launched high-scale products at major tech companies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and B2C engineering leader with extensive experience in large-scale systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipLarge Scale SystemsSoftware Design

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)ClarityDistributed DevelopmentDistributed SystemsLeader of leaderLeadership DevelopmentMass HiringNegotiationOrganizational CultureOrganizational EffectivenessProduct DevelopmentProduct Road MappingScalabilitySite ManagementStaff Retention

About

Site leader, Director of Engineering with 20 years of experience leading teams in software engineering, data engineering, data science, and cloud engineering. My top strengths are technical proficiency, strong business sense and the ability to build and manage local and remote teams at India, Seattle, Dublin. Key career highlights include: * Serving as Site Leader at Thrasio, overseeing engineers across multiple geographies to build a next-gen AI/ML-driven platform for a ~$1B consumer goods business, resulting in improved operational efficiency and optimized supply chain management. * Successfully launching high-scale products at Amazon, Microsoft and Adobe, including platforms that handle billions of transactions like AWS Simple Email Service. * Adopting a strategic, bottom-up leadership approach, creating an environment that nurtures creativity, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Experience

Giesecke+devrient

Head of Digital Systems

Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

Thrasio

Director of Engineering, Site Leader

Jul 2023 – Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · India · Remote

Large Scale SystemsTeam BuildingDistributed DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipOrganizational CultureSite Management+15

Microsoft

Principal Engineering Manager

Apr 2021 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Large Scale SystemsTeam BuildingDistributed DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipOrganizational CultureStaff Retention+12

Amazon

Software Development Manager III

Mar 2016 – Apr 2021 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

Large Scale SystemsTeam BuildingDistributed DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipOrganizational CultureProduct Development+9

Adobe systems

Computer Scientist 2

Aug 2006 – Feb 2016 · 9 yrs 6 mos · Noida Area, India

Current responsibilities:
Product: Adobe Marketing Cloud
Technologies: Open source technologies like Spark, Casandara, Mesos, Choronos, Docker, Titan, Cassandra, Vertx, Nodejs.
Languages: Scala, Java.
Contribution: Leading effort to work with team of data scientists to scale their application on this platform. Implemented Data science algorithms. Contributing to design/development the core solution. Requirements gathering. Calculated the economic costs and benefits of various engineering options.
Past responsibilities:
Products - Adobe Primetime, Adobe Media Server, Adobe Media Gateway, Photoshop.com, Creative Suite, Adobe kuler, Adobe Stock Photos.
Technologies - Encoders, CDN, DRM, Apache, Varnish, Netty, Coldfusion, Apache, Lucene, MySQL
Languages: Java, C++, HTML, ActionScript
Contribution: Lead the team to design, develop, handle escalations and look in to security aspects. Co-developed RTMPE, SWF Verification, H264 support, dynamic streaming and other key feature for HDS/HLS viz. ad slicing and insertion, trick play, adaptive bit rate handling, licensing, license rotation and failover handling. Lead the front/back end server side development. Participated in several evangelism activities for the product. Involved in deciding technologies, developing skills in team, removing bottlenecks and involving test teams.

Technical LeadershipSoftware DesignDistributed SystemsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Scalability

Philips

Software Developer

Jul 2005 – Jul 2006 · 1 yr · Bangalore, India

Worked in Tech-Management team which is responsible for bringing innovation and taking research to various Product Groups.
Technologies: Embedded System, Realtime operating system.
Contribution: Product research, writing white paper, idea generation as focus. Worked on a Smart Car Infotainment concept. Designed and implemented an application to stream of audio over WiFi from media server, connection with handhelds over bluetooth and provide content browser.

Software DesignDistributed Systems