Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos

• Proud to represent Vanshiv on the Salesforce Platform Partner Focus Group (Formerly, Salesforce Platform Partner Advisory Board).
• PPFG 2025 is a group of select partners globally to help shape the direction of Salesforce platform. Vanshiv is one of the 30 partners on this Partner Advisory Board which includes 3 partners from APAC and we're the only one from India!
• Great to be back as part of this Partner Advisory Board to work with Salesforce team to define the Salesforce platform roadmap

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

• Gaurav is as a Founding Member for the Low Code Security Alliance (LCSA) initiative - comprising of some of the best minds and thought leaders in security, Salesforce development, and DevOps to establish a low-code operating model.

Feb 2023 – Jan 2024 · 11 mos · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India · On-site

• Strategic Advisor for CriticalRiver Salesforce practice as part of Vanshiv-CriticalRiver partnership

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India · On-site

• Vanshiv is a premium consulting and professional services company focused on multi-cloud expertise and our footprint is across the United States, Australia and India. We have assembled some of the best minds from Salesforce, Mulesoft, Boomi, Workato and Google Cloud ecosystem to build out a SWAT team to support our customers.
• Vanshiv works on the core values of trust, integrity and transparency. To know more, please check our website and subscribe to our social handles
• https://www.vanshiv.com
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/vanshiv/
• https://twitter.com/vanshivtech
• https://www.facebook.com/vanshivtech
• Vanshiv became a Summit-tier (Platinum) Consulting Partner for Salesforce in June 2024

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

• Honoured to be selected as as ATL Mentor of Change (MoC) by NITI Aayog's Atal Innovation Mission Official (AIM).
• Mentor India is a strategic nation building initiative to engage leaders who can guide and mentor students in over 8700 Atal Tinkering Labs that Atal Innovation Mission has established across India. Mentors of Change are proactive leaders who voluntarily give their time and expertise to guide and enable the students to experience, learn and practice future skills such as design and computational thinking.
• AIM is Government of India’s flagship initiative to create and promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship across the length and breadth of our country. Inline with our Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Digital India' vision and the brain child of the respected Amitabh Kant, the objective of MoC is to develop new programs, policies for fostering innovation, provide platforms and collaboration opportunities for different stakeholders.
• I'll be working with schools in Jaipur to mentor students in areas of Entrepreneurship, STEM and Computer Science.

May 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Excited to be represent Vanshiv at the Salesforce Platform Advisory Board - a unique initiative consisting of the 14 PAB members from various Salesforce partners and the Salesforce Platform Product Team, to help set the future direction of the Salesforce Platform.

May 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Excited to be on the first ever Partner Diversity Council for Salesforce Partners representing Cloudwerx
• An opportunity to use this Council for one of my passions - promoting diversity, equality, and inclusion in our personal and professional lives.
• Read more here - https://medium.com/inside-the-salesforce-ecosystem/the-team-bringing-diversity-equity-inclusion-to-salesforce-partner-ecosystem-c0d6396991ba

Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs

• Elated to represent Cloudwerx on the Global Salesforce Partner Advisory Board for Service Cloud
• Looking forward to working with fellow Board members to help shape the future of Service Cloud from a Partner perspective

May 2022 – Jan 2023 · 8 mos · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

• In my new role as the Chief Technology Evangelist at Cloudwerx, I helped with with a number of high-level, organisation-shaping initiatives including
• Managing capability development globally
• Scaling our Indian team and establishing new regional offices
• Managing and strengthening pivotal stakeholder partnerships with Salesforce, Mulesoft, UiPath and others.
• Leading the charge for Cloudwerx attaining Summit tier Consulting partner status

Aug 2020 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Excited to start a new Chapter in my professional journey as a Forbes Technology Council member.
• Forbes Councils is a collective of invitation-only communities created in partnership with Forbes and the expert community builders who founded Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC). In Forbes Councils, exceptional business owners and leaders come together with the people and resources that can help them thrive.
• Members are respected tech leaders and executives — CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, and others — selected for the council based on their deep knowledge and diverse experience in the industry.

May 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr

• Member of Inaugural Salesforce Community Group Leader Advisory Board (< 20 members)
• Brainstorming & Ideation on various topics to help shape the Community Group Program
• Help define Overall goals and strategy for the Community Group Leader Advisory Board itself

Dec 2018 – Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

• Public Sector Solutions SME for some of the most complex and critical Salesforce engagements across Grants, License & Permits, Inspections, Benefits and other Pub-Sec use cases.
• Overall technology strategy/ leadership across strategic projects with an eye on futuristic platforms & innovation
• Executive Owner & Sponsor for MTX Internal App Suite, a diverse & continuously enhancing toolchain for supporting & automating key workflows across verticals & stakeholders
• Write code, review code & architect solutions - something that I've loved doing for the last two decades!
• Strategic Relationship management with Salesforce, Google Cloud, AWS & more
• In May 2021, I moved to a new role to align with the organisation objectives to strengthen Capability & Capacity Development as well as take executive ownership of all Learning & Development initiatives across the board.
• Executive Sponsor for all Learning & Development activities across the board
• Capacity & Capability development across key strategic partnerships including Salesforce, Google Cloud, AWS and others
• Ramp internal teams via high-quality training & partner enablement to help establish new technology practices

Dec 2018 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

• MTX’s Maverick.io AI platform is a suite of on-demand Artificial Intelligence services that enable clients to accelerate their products and achieve critical new insights by leveraging
• Cognitive Decision Engines that apply your critical business data to generate new insights, assist decision-making and predict desired outcomes
• Purpose-built Artificial Neural Networks that solve critical business needs in the public sector and a variety of industries
• Intelligent Image and Video Analysis that detects critical objects or situations and allow immediate action to be taken
• Powering our ERM (Emergency Response Management) platform enabling states, organisations & agencies to tackle the #Coronavirus #COVID-19 pandemic
• Read more here - https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mtx-implements-mission-critical-technology-solutions-for-state-governments-covid-19-emergency-response-programs-301029153.html
• In the 'Crawl, Walk, Run' spirit, Gaurav led Maverick AI platform in the crawl (ideation, walk (experimentation) and run (productisation) phases before moving on to take other responsibilities.

Apr 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Jaipur Area, India

• Gaurav worked in a strategic role as Vice President - Mobility & Technology Evangelism. In this dual role, he was responsible for
• Managing Metacube's Salesforce engagement as a Silver Consulting & PDO Specialist Master partner. Moved up the ladder from Registered to Silver & from PDO to Specialist Master
• Account management for key enterprise customers
• Leading internal & external technology evangelism efforts for Salesforce & mobile
• Enterprise app development, involved as a hands-on Architect for designing robust and scalable solutions

Dec 2009 – Mar 2016 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Jaipur Area, India

• Gaurav founded & led the Metacube Mobility practice when smartphones & mobility were still in it's in-fancy stage.
• Setup mobile practice and scaled it to 35 team members in a span of 5 years with an annual revenue of $2M
• Developed in-house competence on native and hybrid development
• Helped expand several existing customers with their mobile footprint & strategy
• Mobile team won several notable awards, hackathons and competitions inculcating a learning-first attitude in the team

Dec 2007 – Dec 2009 · 2 yrs · Jaipur Area, India

• Gaurav worked as Tech Lead & Account Manager for multiple strategic accounts.
• Setup Metacube's telecom vertical on Value Added Services development & scaled it to support multiple operators in APAC & Africa
• Led Metacube's engagement with IDC across multiple enterprise forecasting & analytical product lines
• Baby steps into the world of Salesforce - small point and click client projects, SFDC config & administration

Feb 2006 – Feb 2008 · 2 yrs

• Gaurav was a Technical Lead in Telephony Group of iSmartPanache (working for PGi). During his tenure at iSmartPanache, he was responsible for :-
• Design & Development of Enterprise Level Fax Broadcast Solution using ITU-T.30 over a SIP interface
• RTCP Toolkit Design & Development to analyze fax quality, image transmission issues
• Feature Development on VoXML
• Key Projects: SIP-T.30 Fax, RTCP, V.17, V.34, Aculab Prosody X, TTS, VoXML

Aug 2004 – Feb 2006 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Gaurav worked in a lead position for the ISOS Voice (SIP) platform. He was primarily responsible for feature request development and supporting the existing platform for customers in America, Asia-Pacific and European regions.
• SIP projects - TEL URI (RFC 3966), DTMF Support - 2833 (RFC 2833) and SIP INFO (RFC 2976), Subscription Support (RFC 3265), Call Forwarding, SIP Multi-Party Conferencing, Fax - ITU-T T.30, ITU-T T.38, Voice Driver, FXO Programming

Jan 2002 – Jul 2004 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Gaurav worked as an Analyst repsonsible for architecture and implementation of Intelligent Network services/ NGN (voice) solutions. During his tenure at Alcatel, he worked off-shore & on-site for many major telecom operators in Europe including France Telecom, Bouyges Telecom etc.
• Key Projects - Alcatel OSP, OSP-ME, PRBT (Alcatel 8693), CMM (Alcatel 8640), AnLab (8687), CTT, Alcatel 8690, SMPP Client, Newnet SMSC, SRP, DAM, IVR, VoXML, SIP, SDP

Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 · 1 yr

• Gaurav worked as Developer in Sunlab, a dedicated team for Sun Microsystem's R&D efforts on Enterprise Tool Development. Gaurav worked on a couple of very interesting enterprise tool projects during his short stint at Headstrong
• Key Projects -
• 1) Com2Java - Migration of COM Objects to Java Classes
• 2) iASMT - Migration of WebSphere & Weblogic components to iPlanet