Gaurav Ramesh

Director of Engineering

Santa Clara, California, United States12 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven leadership in engineering management.
  • Expertise in building scalable backend systems.
  • Strong focus on team development and mentoring.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong engineering management and backend development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProject ManagementSoftware ArchitectureWeb Engineering

Other Skills

CommunicationAirtableContinuous ImprovementTeam LeadershipPeople ManagementJiraEngineering StrategyProduct EngineeringTeam ManagementMongoDBJavaContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)API DevelopmentDeveloper ExperienceR

Experience

12 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
8 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Opentable

6 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Engineering Manager | Hospitality/Guest Engineering

Promoted

Feb 2023Sep 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • I oversee multiple full stack teams within the Hospitality line of business dedicated to developing foundational systems for the Guest/CRM domain. These systems allow the restaurants to effectively identify, manage and segment their guests, and manage their marketing campaigns and loyalty programs
  • My primary responsibilities include
  • Streamlining value delivery - I lead diverse and remote teams, identifying and resolving bottlenecks to ensure seamless value delivery to customers
  • Stakeholder engagement and alignment - I bridge the gap between engineering and non-engineering stakeholders, including management and leadership teams, to ensure alignment and smooth execution. This involves proactive communication and strategic allocation of resources to balance the immediate needs and long-term goals
  • Development and growth - I'm passionate about building an environment where people thrive. Through one-on-one conversations, constructive feedback, mentoring, and coaching, I empower individuals to reach their potential and align their career aspirations with the right opportunities
CommunicationAirtableProject ManagementContinuous ImprovementTeam LeadershipPeople Management+6

Engineering Manager | Guest Engineering

Mar 2022Feb 2023 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Managed a backend engineering team of six that was responsible for building and managing business-critical guest systems, like guest search

Engineering Manager | POS Integrations & Payments

Dec 2021Feb 2022 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Led a team of four engineers responsible for the POS and Payments systems at OpenTable.
Engineering ManagementProduct Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2019Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Worked on the core team on the restaurant of the business building backend systems that power the service planning and operations of the restaurants on our platform.
  • Tools and technologies I work with include Java/Spring, TeamCity, Mongo, Singularity/Mesos, Kubernetes, Kibana, Graphite/Prometheus with Grafana and Puppet.
MongoDBJavaContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Software Architecture

Software Engineer

Mar 2017Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • I worked in the Consumer Growth team as a full-stack engineer building and optimizing user interfaces and APIs for the most high-traffic pages(home, restaurant profile and point-of-interest) on the web platform.
  • I primarily worked as a JavaScript developer, both in vanilla and non-vanilla flavors, and both on the client and server side, but also often navigated HTML, CSS and the like.
  • Following are some of the things I specifically enjoyed in this role:
  • Building responsive user interfaces to consolidate the desktop and mobile experience development, optimizing the CI/CD pipelines with TeamCity, and the size of Docker images in Production, auditing the health and performance of the apps, developing tools to automate things, fiddling with webpack configurations to optimize app build times, and driving the end-to-end testing effort for all of the Consumer frontend teams using Cypress.io
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Web EngineeringAPI DevelopmentDeveloper Experience

Paypal

Software Engineer

Jun 2015Mar 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Jose

The ohio state university

Graduate Research Associate

Sep 2014May 2015 · 8 mos · Columbus, Ohio Area

  • Enhancing the workflow of Radiology Dept. by automating de-identification and storage of medical images
  • Stack: Java, DCM4CHE 2 Toolkit and DCM4CHEE, RSNA CTP, Oracle 11g

Amazon

Software Developer Intern

May 2014Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Seattle

  • Designed and developed the Sensitivity Analysis(SeAn) System in the Labor Optimization team, to simulate variations in input labor-metrics and visualize their influence on output labor-metrics
  • Stack: Amazon RDS, Java/Spring, JUnit & Mockito, Ruby on Rails, Coral Service Framework, D3.js

Istream india

Software Engineer

Oct 2012May 2013 · 7 mos · Bangalore

  • Reduced load time of the mobile website from 6 seconds to about 2 seconds, using minimal libraries and better client-side caching, increasing mobile traffic by about 15% in about two months
  • Improved front-end development methodologies introducing CSS preprocessors, lazy-loaders and build tools
  • Stack: PHP, RequireJS, Backbone.js, Sass/Compass, jQuery(Mobile), Yeoman

Langoor

Web Developer

Apr 2012Oct 2012 · 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Developed the front-end of a web-based ERP system for clients from multiple domains(apparels and jewellery)
  • Built two responsive Wordpress themes from scratch, in which the work was appreciated by the clients and also led to a longer contract with them
  • Tools/Stack: jQuery/jQuery Mobile, Backbone.js, Wordpress, Sass(CSS), CodeIgniter(PHP)

Tally solutions pvt ltd

Software Engineer

Jul 2011Mar 2012 · 8 mos · Bangalore

  • Developed, as a part of three people team, an in-house HTML5 mobile application for product sales tracking, first ever mobile app of the company, which kick-started bigger mobile development team
  • Designed and developed front-end of the Event Management System of the firm, used to track the progress of nationwide campaigns
  • Tools/Stack: HTML5, CSS, Javascript/jQuery, PhoneGap(Cordova), PHP

Education

The Ohio State University

Master of Science (MS) — Computer Science

Jan 2013Jan 2015

Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering

BE — Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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