Gaurav Maheshwari

VP of Engineering

Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India15 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 15 years of experience in software engineering.
Expert in building scalable and reliable technology solutions.
Strong focus on developer productivity and AI-driven solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned engineering leader in SaaS and Fintech with a focus on infrastructure and developer productivity.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementDeveloper ProductivityTechnical ArchitectureSystem DesignToolingAnalyticsPerformance TestingArchitectural DesignSecurityFramework Development

Other Skills

AI driven solutioning (RAG and Agentic AI)Accessibility TestingAgile MethodologiesAgile TestingAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsArchitectureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Automation Framework designingCC#CICI/CDCase ToolsCausal Analysis

About

With over 15 years of experience in software engineering, I am a seasoned engineering leader with a strong focus on building scalable, reliable, and high-quality technology solutions. I’ve successfully led cross-functional, high-performing teams and delivered impactful products across domains such as fintech, log analytics, HRMS, and security. In my current role at Razorpay, I lead multiple engineering teams ( more than 15 engineers) dedicated to improving developer productivity which includes building internal developer tools, enabling AI-powered solutions, and delivering ephemeral infrastructure platforms that support quality and agility at scale. My expertise spans technical leadership, infrastructure, and process improvement. Skills : Engineering management, Infrastructure as a Service, Automation Framework designing, Tooling, Kubernetes, performance engineering, AI driven solutioning (RAG and Agentic AI), ephemeral platformisation

Experience

Razorpay

3 roles

Senior Manager

Promoted

Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos

Manager

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Managed a team of 15+ engineers to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions across payment platform systems and neo-banking products.
Defined and executed engineering strategies, fostered strong collaboration with cross-functional
stakeholders including Product, Project Management.
Provided hands-on technical leadership and mentorship, enabling a culture of continuous learning, peer collaboration, and technical excellence.
Championed a quality-first engineering culture—streamlining internal processes, driving AI oriented automated testing practices, and initiating structured training programs to uplift team capabilities.
Partnered with HR to craft and implement a targeted talent acquisition strategy, significantly reducing time-to-hire and improving candidate alignment with team needs.

Engineering ManagementDeveloper ProductivityArtificial Intelligence (AI)Infrastructure as code (IaC)Performance EngineeringPeople Leader

Lead

Feb 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

Owned technical architecture and system design; implemented ephemeral platforms to support agile testing and deployment with a focus on quality and reliability.
Created multiple tools and platforms to increase the developer productivity like BVT optimiser, Code Coverage, ephemeral platforms, Observability, CI/CD.
Developed tool for Contract Testing using json driven inputs

Sumo logic

Sr. Software Engineer

Jun 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Worked on Root Cause Explorer Solution for AWS resources (a solution to identify the
anomalies in the system by analytics the time series data of AWS Resources)
Involved in creating Algorithms for verifying the Analytics solutions Worked on Cloud
SIEM solutions (parsers -> rules -> investigations etc)
Involved in doing performance testing using Locust*

Kronos incorporated

2 roles

Principal Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Noida

Involved in architectural design of new features including security (i.e. CSRF, XSS), impact of Security protocols like TLS 1.2
Creation of a portal using Angular, Spring boot for tracking and presenting to leadership , created Regression Finder utilities using JIRA APIs and core JAVA , Hierarchical queries , Multithreaded utility using JAVA

Lead Engineer

May 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Noida

Soti

Software Engineer

Sep 2015 – May 2016 · 8 mos · Gurgaon

Project
Soti SURF (Secure Browser integrated with MOBI Control to access Intranet Sites securel using Proxy Server)
Roles
Created multithreaded tool to ensure the Performance of Proxy and its Functionality.
Created framework for validating the application on Android Devices using Appium, TesNG
Validating the traffic via Fiddler , RESTFul APIs via Postman , used JMeter for Performance.

Safenet

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2014 – Nov 2014 · 7 mos · Noida

Worked on Product : Sentinel License Development Kit (Sentinel License Development Kit provides the hardware and software based solutions for strong protection and licensing security.)

Software Engineer

Mar 2012 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs · Noida

Worked on Products :
Sentinel License Development Kit
Mobile Pass:(The Etoken MobilePASS Software tokens allow users to generate OTPs (One-Time-Passcode)