Gaurav Sarma — Senior Software Engineer
I am a Senior Software Engineer with proven success designing and implementing agile and customer-focused product solutions to support progressive software architecture across highly competitive environments within the financial services, cloud computing, and manufacturing industries. Working through the entire software development life cycle from requirements capture, to research and development, implementation, and automation, my goal is to achieve safe, resilient, and cost-effective infrastructure, identifying future operational needs and leveraging best practice environments to create transformational value. ✓ Fluent in platform and backend development, with strong coding skills in Golang and Python. ✓ Agile and interactive mindset, skilled at delivering product quality, flexibility, transparency, and satisfaction. ✓ Passionate about building and maintaining highly scalable solutions across different layers of the application. ✓ Ability to thrive in diverse work environments and industry landscapes, including large multinationals and startups. Career Highlights: - Augmented the management and execution of administrative and debugging tasks on 10,000+ nodes. - Built analytics engine to support over 10,000 edge devices. - Migrated 120+ SignalFX dashboards and 400+ detectors to Prometheus/Grafana. - Realised a 3x improvement in MongoDB Server selection performance by removing lock-based data structures. - Decreased query optimisation support tickets with the introduction of Explain Query Plan for Mongo. - Elevated cache hit ratio by 84% through hierarchical data caching. - Enhanced security and privacy by deploying an edge device-based proxy using Iptables and Redsocks. - Positively migrated payment processors for >3000 customers. - Met 100% of compliance and operational effectiveness to pass ISO 27001 and SOC2 Type 1 Audit. Areas of Expertise: Software Architecture | Research & Data Analytics | Technology Integration | Code Smells & Technical Debt Problem-Solving | User-Interface Design | Strategic Planning | Continuous Improvement Process | QA Testing Project Lifecycle Management | Cross-Functional Collaboration | Programming Language | Coaching & Mentorship Cloud Computing | Code Design Patterns | Server Management | Customer Experience | CI/CD Automation
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Fintech and Cloud Computing with a focus on scalable infrastructure.
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Experience: 10 yrs 5 mos
Skills
- Database Management
- Technical Design
- Data Infrastructure
- Architecture Development
- Project Management
- Technical Leadership
- Software Development
Career Highlights
- Achieved 3x improvement in MongoDB performance.
- Migrated over 120 dashboards to Prometheus/Grafana.
- Elevated cache hit ratio by 84%.
Work Experience
Stripe
Senior Software Engineer (ORR Platform and MongoDB Data Plane) (2 yrs 8 mos)
Rippling
Senior Software Engineer (Data Infrastructure) (1 yr 3 mos)
VMware
Technical Lead (Pivotal Tracker) (1 yr 4 mos)
Lavelle Networks
Technical Lead, Founding team (R&D and DevOps) (5 yrs 1 mo)
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at SRM University
at Don Bosco Senior Secondary School