Gaurav Kumar

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

Achieved 80% goal delivery rate through OKR governance.
Drove 30% reduction in cloud cost overruns.
Led IPL-scale platform readiness with zero downtime.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with a strong focus on program management and cost optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Program ManagementTechnical PlanningCost ManagementProject Management

Other Skills

IT Project & Program ManagementAgile Project ManagementIncident ManagementGCP Cost ManagementOKR GovernanceReportingCapacity PlanningOKR ManagementCloud Cost ManagementPlatform ReadinessAWS Cost ManagementCloud OptimizationPlatform MigrationJava DevelopmentBusiness Analysis

About

TPM with 13+ yrs leading infra scale-ups (IPL), AWS/GCP cost optimisation, org-wide OKRs, and complex cross-team delivery across CRED, Auxia, Intuit, Khatabook, Ola. Specialised in high-scale readiness, incident management, release governance, and platform migrations.

Experience

14 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 9 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Auxia

2 roles

FoundingTechnical Program Manager

Promoted

Feb 2025 – Jan 2026 · 11 mos · Bengaluru

Standardized org-wide OKR governance for Engineering PODs, achieving an 80% goal delivery rate and increasing executive alignment through monthly tech reviews.
Automated enterprise-level reporting on Jira and Linear for P0 production bugs, SLA misses, and RCA Postmortems, improving visibility for CXO stakeholders.
Established incident management processes and tracked P0 action items within SLAs to ensure platform reliability and security compliance.
Owned GCP cost management and capacity planning, monitoring developer-level usage to prevent cost spikes.

Technical PlanningIT Project & Program ManagementAgile Project ManagementIncident ManagementGCP Cost ManagementProgram Management

Technical Program Manager

Feb 2025 – Jan 2026 · 11 mos · Bengaluru

Led the planning, execution and reporting of Org wide OKR charter
Led the full delivery lifecycle for client initiatives: translated business needs into actionable PRDs, aligned cross-functional engineering efforts, and maintained continuous customer engagement through demos and post-implementation support
Managed the end-to-end onboarding of new customers, overseeing cross-functional delivery from initial data ingestion and pipeline testing to the final deployment of Proof of Concept (POC) launches

Technical PlanningIT Project & Program ManagementProject Management

Cred

Staff Technical Program Manager

Nov 2021 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

▪Led IPL-scale platform readiness across Infra, SRE, and App teams, supporting peak events with zero downtime
▪Drove 30% reduction in cloud cost overruns through proactive AWS cost controls, exec reviews, and engineering accountability
▪Owned a portfolio of strategic platform programs including Java 17 migration, IAM modernization, Graviton migration, vulnerability remediation, and ultra-low-latency DB delivery
▪Delivered multiple 0→1 GTM launches, coordinating Product, Engineering, Security, and SRE under aggressive timelines
▪Acted as single-threaded owner for strategic vendors (PagerDuty, Coralogix), including renewals, negotiations, and performance governance
▪Built automated executive dashboards for P0s, SLA breaches, and customer-impacting issues; regularly briefed CXO and security leadership

Cloud Cost ManagementPlatform ReadinessProject ManagementProgram Management

Khatabook

Senior Technical Program Manager

Nov 2019 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Helping build a scalable, robust payments platform that will enable, empower and add prosperity to lives of millions of MSMEs in India

Intuit

Senior Technical Program Manager

Jan 2019 – Oct 2019 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

Technical Program Manager

Apr 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

▪ Resolved cross-functional dependencies, deployment planning, impediments and team blockers
▪ Acted as primary guardrails of release timelines from sprint inception till closure
▪ Facilitated resolution of conflicting priorities and constraints via consensus and sound judgement
▪ Facilitated Spec Walkthrough, Design discussion and Contract closure b/w cross functional teams
▪ Managed E2E (solution till go-live) lifecycle of major programs driven towards achieving org goals;

Iquanti, inc.

Program Manager - Engagement Management

May 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore

 Responsible for Requirement feasibility to delivery; SoW creation and sign off; Project execution and delivery monitoring; Customer demo and UAT sign off
 Responsible and accountable for CSAT score, account growth and annual business renewal