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Gautam Prajapati

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs experience
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Key Highlights

  • Founder of AI-native solutions for carbon markets
  • Led high-impact projects at Airbnb and Blinkit
  • Expert in sustainability and climate technology
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce expert with a strong focus on sustainability and climate technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

Carbon MarketsSustainabilitySoftware DevelopmentPayments SystemsCarbon MethodologyEnvironmental, Social, And Governance (esg)Microservices ArchitectureE-commerce SystemsOpen Source DevelopmentAndroid Development

Other Skills

AI-native dMRV solutionsProject developmentPayments toolingData managementTeam leadershipElasticsearchJavaKubernetesDigitizing methodologiesBlockchainESGMicroservicesFastAPIPythonCheckout system

About

Engineer with a deep-seated passion for sustainability and climate action. Experimenting with building AI Agents to automate manual workflows across industries. Lately, my focus has been on leveraging AI to drive transparency, efficiency, and innovation, especially in the carbon markets. Let's talk technology & climate.

Experience

9 yrs
Total Experience
1 yr 6 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Airbnb

2 roles

Tech Lead - Payments Tooling

Promoted

Feb 2024Jan 2025 · 11 mos

  • One of the early engineers to join and help build Airbnb tech capability center
  • Tech lead within payments and compliance org - team that helps Airbnb safely transfer billions of dollars between guests and hosts every year
  • Built unified payments search platform, leading a team of 3, for engineers and support staff to get a holistic look at Payments data
  • Managing read optimized store infra for payments - Elasticsearch specifically, owning indexing pipelines and cluster containing ~5B transaction documents.
  • Actively involved in hiring, promoting hackathons, sustainability and building a tech brand for Airbnb India.
  • Tech Stack: Java, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Kafka
Payments toolingData managementTeam leadershipElasticsearchJavaKubernetes+2

Software Engineer

Oct 2021Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Carbonmarketshq

Founder

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Building AI-native dMRV solutions for carbon markets. Working closely with project developers, corporate buyers with a vision for achieving gigaton scale carbon removal.
AI-native dMRV solutionsCarbon marketsProject developmentCarbon MarketsSustainability

Climate vine

Member, Cohort II

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

The hbar foundation

ESG consultant

Aug 2023Nov 2023 · 3 mos

  • Worked on digitizing UNFCCC CDM's methodologies on Hedera's Guardian system (https://hedera.com/guardian)
  • Work was presented at COP28(UN Climate Change Conference)
  • Specifically worked with AMS III-H(Methane recovery in wastewater treatment), ACM0006(Electricity and heat generation from biomass) and ACM0007(Conversion from single cycle to combined cycle power generation)
Digitizing methodologiesCarbon marketsBlockchainESGCarbon MethodologyEnvironmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)

Blinkit

2 roles

Tech Lead (Merchandising)

Promoted

Jul 2020Sep 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Tech lead for Merchandising(Catalog) team at the quick commerce unicorn of India
  • Lead a team of 4 engineers to re-write and deprecate a 6YO monolith microservice running 30K+ of python 2 code taking care of Blinkit's product listing APIs at a scale of 1M requests per minute. This service today handles close to 1M requests per second.
  • Worked with modern FastAPI framework and non-blocking IO to reduce P99 latency by a staggering 80% and average by 60%
  • Streamlined the navigation of the ever increasing product inventory by building search & filters backed by Elasticsearch
  • Owned the cart and payments microservices
  • Tech Stack - Python 3, FastAPI, Asyncio, Elasticsearch
MicroservicesFastAPIElasticsearchPythonSoftware DevelopmentMicroservices Architecture

Software Engineer

Jul 2018Jul 2020 · 2 yrs

  • Owned the core services of Grofers' checkout system - shopping cart, delivery ETA, orders client etc.
  • Developed edit order feature - Modified core services to handle the complexity of more than 1 cart
  • per order. First e-comm company in India to offer this feature resulting in 40% extra delivery capacity during the nationwide lockdown.
  • Built one of a kind loyalty program service in the industry supporting myriad of reward types and games using domain-driven design concepts. First-month launch brought $6M in revenue and 1M distinct user app visits
  • Tech Stack - Python, Flask, Django, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes
Checkout systemOrder managementLoyalty program developmentE-commerce SystemsSoftware Development

Love heals cancer

Co-Founder

May 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Delhi Area

  • At LHC, we are committed to building a healing environment and finding solutions beyond conventional offerings and availability for cancer patients. We combine knowledge from various modalities of life, both medical and natural, to overcome day to day challenges of health, disease and living with cancer.
  • As an early co-founder and CTO, my work involved counselling cancer patients(non-medicine), designing and building the website, managing volunteers and organizing support group circles to build a community of people facing adverse life challenges.

The document foundation

Google Summer of Code @LibreOffice

Jan 2017Sep 2017 · 8 mos · Europe(Remote)

  • Successfully passed GSoC in Sept'17 working with LibreOffice.
  • Project Link: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#6637875643809792
  • Project goal was to improve the LibreOffice Android build system. Worked on switching from deprecated NDK GCC toolchain to Clang.
  • Read the full report here: https://medium.com/@gautamprajapati/gsoc-final-submission-report-libreoffice-for-android-5623d011df41

Mozilla

Open Source Contributor

Jan 2017Jun 2017 · 5 mos · Remote

  • Worked on Firefox for Android(Fennec) browser and Mozilla's Network security services library

Fossasia

Open source contributor

Jan 2017Apr 2017 · 3 mos · Remote

  • Active contributor at FOSSASIA. Working on Open Event Android project. Improved the complete UI/UX of the application.
  • https://github.com/fossasia/open-event-android/

Arsenic labs

Co-founder

Aug 2016Aug 2017 · 1 yr · Greater Delhi Area

  • Building Augmented Reality prototypes and pitching them to businesses for their relevant use-cases
LibreOffice Android build systemNDK GCC toolchainClangOpen Source DevelopmentAndroid Development

Education

Delhi College of Engineering

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Computer Software Engineering

Udacity

Android Developer Nanodegree — Android

Jan 2016Present

DAV Centenary Public School

Physics

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