Gaurav Kumar

CTO

Gurgaon, Haryana, India21 yrs 3 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Achieved $400 million savings through infrastructure optimization.
  • Onboarded over 2.5 million users in FinTech platform.
  • Led digital transformation for top-tier banks across Asia.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with strong capabilities in digital transformation and cloud architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Large Scale SystemsArtificial Intelligence (ai)Strategic PlanningTeam LeadershipDigital Transformation

Other Skills

Management ProfessionalPerformance ManagementSoftware Project ManagementLarge Scale Change ManagementData AnalysisKey MetricsTeam BuildingCloud ArchitectureMicroservicesCloud MigrationServerless ComputingJavaJavaScriptC++Dev-Ops Automation

About

- I am a Hands-On Architect, effective Coach and Mentor and a Business focused Digital Consultant. - I find my spike in solving business problems using my exposure and expertise in Cloud, Dev-Ops, -Micro-Services and Serverless architecture patterns. - My passion lies in incubating digital units and then coaching and maturing them to scale and speed. - I drive value out of my ability to fork partnerships and create Digital Ecosystems by balancing business needs and technology integration challenges. - I find my purpose in using these skills and abilities to build systems and solutions that makes a difference to the society and to users of my solutions.

Experience

21 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Google

Engineering Manager

Mar 2022Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · India

  • Enhanced the Google Workspace Audit platform for greater scale and efficiency.
  • Increased ingestion throughput (QPS) from 600k to 2 million.
  • Reduced infrastructure costs by 80%, achieving approximately $400 million in savings.
  • Improved SLOs from 4 days to 5 minutes while maintaining 4-9s of reliability.
  • Improved team productivity by ~25% by rolling out an AI champion initiative to identify, adapt and adopt AI tools across 8 Engineering processes (example: diffing, testing, debugging, design and code reviews).
  • Developed a reporting and analysis platform computing over 3,000 metrics from audit data.
  • Enabled ~10 strategic initiatives to prevent churn and drive upgrades, impacting $50M in revenue.
  • Saved approximately 70 years of development and maintenance effort across 40+ products.
  • Ensured compliance with 7+ critical regulations including DMA, FedRamp, and Data Sovereignty.
  • Unblocked 7+ large customer deals, each exceeding 100k seats.
Large Scale SystemsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Management ProfessionalPerformance ManagementTeam LeadershipStrategic Planning+2

Valyu.ai

Co-Founder and CTO

May 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Spearheaded the setup of a core team and developed a B2B FinTech Platform.
  • Led the roll-out of 5 lending products in 12 months, onboarding over 2.5 million users.
  • Architected a highly scalable Serverless Architecture on Google Cloud Platform to support scale up to 630 applications per minute, demonstrating expertise in Cloud and scalability.
  • Drove digital ecosystem value by forging partnerships and integrations with 3 lenders, 8 compliance services, 3 payment platforms, and 5 SDKs.
Key MetricsTeam BuildingTeam Leadership

Sadhan enterprises (i) private limited

Head of Technology

Jan 2019Apr 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Built and led a team of 40+ Digital Experts across Technology, Product, and Design functions.
  • Created a comprehensive Digital ecosystem through 20+ partnerships with technology solution providers.
  • Launched Digital solutions for 8 Business Verticals in one year.
  • People Transport: Built core platform engines for Routing, Cross Utilization Vehicle Deployment, and Delay Prediction. Developed ML-driven algorithms for Delay Prevention, Vehicle Maintenance, and Driver Training.
  • Last Mile delivery: Designed and developed the core platform for Last Mile Delivery, including Biker's App, DRS automation, Capacity Planning, and Gap Analysis.
  • Strategic Partnership: Partnered and co-created location services with Here Maps to harness Location Intelligence capabilities.

Mckinsey & company

3 roles

Digital Expert

Promoted

Jul 2016Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Led a full-scale Digital transformation for a top-tier bank in Myanmar, including cloud migration (Microsoft Azure), DevOps automation, and digitization of seven B2B and B2C products.
  • Implemented Agile and Microservices architecture and established vendor and partner ecosystems.
  • Ensured sustainable change by building capabilities for in-house teams and vendor eco-system
  • Laid the foundation for Digital transformation for a leading bank in Bangkok, digitizing 3 B2C products, implementing cloud migration (AWS), and Dev-Ops automation.
  • Built a Digital organization for one of the largest Telcos in Thailand, rolling out the first 6 B2C mobile and web applications with a user base of 24 million. Orchestrated large scale cloud transformation to implement a micro-services based hybrid cloud architecture (OpenShift)
  • Designed a Supply Chain Optimisation Platform for a major Automobile manufacturer in India, focusing on Capacity Planning (first-mile vendors) and Route rationalization (Hub-N-Spoke model for mid-mile segments).
  • Delivered 120+ web and mobile applications in a span of two years by building a new service line (MDL-Xpress) and inducting 50+ campus recruits.
MicroservicesCloud MigrationDigital TransformationServerless ComputingJavaJavaScript+1

Digital Specialist

Jul 2014Jul 2016 · 2 yrs · Gurgaon, India

  • Led Enterprise and Integration architecture for a leading holiday provider in the U.K., integrating with 30+ third-party downstream holiday providers, resolved critical scaling bottlenecks which were stalling business growth
  • Designed MIS system and Integration architecture for a leading bank in Africa, creating a Single Source of Truth from 31 different IT systems to support multiple Mergers and Acquisitions.

Senior Digital Analyst

Dec 2012Jun 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

Servigistics

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2010Dec 2012 · 2 yrs

  • Lead architect on Parts Planning Solution Platform for Servigistics • (now PTC)
  • Scaled up technology team from 10 to 25 in 6 months

Vektrix consulting

Founder & Technology Lead

Sep 2009Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Created Technology Product that takes out plastic from access control systems by leveraging Bluetooth, Infra Red and RFC
  • Created Network Marketing and CRM products for selling Insurance products on Multi Level Marketing Platform

Sap labs india

Senior Consultant

Jun 2006Aug 2009 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Lead developer for Ranking and Promotions module for Ministry Of Defence, Singapore (SAP HR, SAP Finance)
  • Lead developer for Ledger reconciliation module in SAP Finance and BI (NetWeaver stack)
  • Enhanced SAP-HR module to built a E-Recruiting Solution

Tata consultancy services

Software Engineer

Oct 2004Jun 2006 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Migration of Cargo Management system from VB to Java platform
  • Java Developer for Employee Self Service modules for internal ERP systems

Education

Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering

B.Tech — Information Technology

Jan 2000Jan 2004

DAV, Shalimar Bagh

Science with Computers

Jan 1988Jan 2000

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