Gaurav Malhotra

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

40% improvement in Spark query planning.
Handled over 500k events/sec in fraud detection.
Expert in cloud-native architecture across multiple platforms.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Big Data expert with a focus on scalable distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

SparkCloud ArchitectureCloud MigrationContainerizationSoftware DevelopmentBig Data ProcessingReal-time Analytics

Other Skills

Data CloudAPI DevelopmentGCSAzureData ManagementAzure Kubernetes ServiceAutomationChrome V3Test SuiteTheta-SketchKafkaHBaseReal-time ProcessingBatch ProcessingC

About

I am a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce with 8+ years of experience building scalable distributed systems, big data pipelines, and cloud-native platforms. My work spans large-scale stream processing, Spark query optimization, high-throughput data ingestion, and cross-cloud integrations across Azure, GCP, and internal platforms. I’ve engineered impactful systems across industry leaders like Salesforce, Microsoft, and Flipkart—from optimizing Spark workloads (40% query planning improvement) to containerizing core Microsoft services on AKS to building real-time fraud detection pipelines handling 500k+ events/sec. I’m passionate about system performance, scalable architecture, and solving complex distributed engineering challenges. Tools I work with: Spark, Kafka, Azure, GCS, Java, Scala, Python, Spring, React, Docker, Kubernetes.

Experience

Salesforce

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · India · Hybrid

Designed and engineered the Rule Builder & Job Builder for Data Cloud Activations, reducing Spark query planning time by 40%.
Built and deployed the CRUD Connect API for Data Streams, significantly improving metadata and data management workflows.
Architected the Egress Workflow for Default Activation, enabling high-throughput direct data pushes to GCS and Azure Buckets.

SparkData CloudAPI DevelopmentGCSAzureCloud Architecture

Microsoft

Software Development Engineer 2

Nov 2019 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Led containerization and cloud migration of the SkypeAAD service using Azure Kubernetes Service, improving scalability and deployment efficiency.
Automated Azure Cloud Services artifact generation, reducing deployment time from 2 hours to 15 minutes.
Built interactive Chrome V3 features for Microsoft Whiteboard and contributed to the comprehensive test suite for Whiteboard Android.

Azure Kubernetes ServiceCloud MigrationAutomationChrome V3Test SuiteContainerization

Flipkart

2 roles

Software Development Engineer 2

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Aug 2019 · 7 mos

Built near-real-time analytics for FDP Dashboard using Theta-Sketch algorithms, handling 500k+ events/s with drastically reduced latency.
Implemented the Feature Loader for model pipelines used in fraud detection systems.
Created an end-to-end Reseller Fraud Detection pipeline, integrating real-time + batch processing with Kafka and HBase.

Theta-SketchKafkaHBaseReal-time ProcessingBatch ProcessingBig Data Processing+1