Gaurav Agarwal

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in distributed systems and data infrastructure.
Proven track record in optimizing complex algorithms.
Strong leadership experience mentoring engineers.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Data Analytics.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsAlgorithmsData AnalyticsOptimizationData Engineering

Other Skills

FoundationDBTime-Series DataSearch AlgorithmsMachine LearningMathematical ProgrammingMapReduceBigtablePerformance OptimizationOLAPAnalyticsData Warehouse Architecture

About

Applied distributed systems, data-infrastructure, and time-series stores. Mathematical optimization, search & information retrieval.

Experience

19 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

4 mos

Current Experience

Google

2 roles

Senior Staff Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2025 – Present · 4 mos

Staff Engineer

Apr 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

Optimized storage and processing for Nest cameras.
Worked on ranking models for business shopping ads.

Spotnana

Principal Engineer

Nov 2021 – Nov 2025 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Enhanced system uptime from ~90% to ~99.5% and cut down search latencies by > 25%.
Wrote itinerary optimization algorithms that cut flight booking costs by 15-20%.
Built booking compliance policy engine.
Built the core data analytics platform.
Built and maintained distributed infrastructure foundations.
Mentored 30+ engineers.

Distributed SystemsAlgorithmsData AnalyticsOptimization

Arkin net [acquired by vmware]

Staff Engineer 2

Oct 2014 – Mar 2020 · 5 yrs 5 mos

Founding engineer. We scaled it to 5000+ customers and got acquired.
Built configuration time-machine platform using FoundationDB to handle 1M+ flows/second.
Built time-series platform for real-time metrics across 100M+ timeseries.
Mentored 25+ engineers and handed off my systems as we could grow from a startup to 150 people.

@walmart labs

Principal Engineer

May 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

Team Lead of Search and Browse (India) @WalmartLabs.
Built search and spelling correction models for the Web/Mobile platforms.
Built query auto-complete using random walk models to fix query suggestions.
Above efforts increased overall online revenue by ~4%.

Inmobi

Staff Engineer

Jan 2011 – May 2013 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Built core analytics platform for hundreds of terabytes of data.
Optimized ad auctions using mathematical programming.
Built mobile ad-tracking and reconciliation platform.

Google

Software Engineer

Jan 2008 – Dec 2010 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Built the data pipelines for AdWords and AdSense. Basically a massive DAG of MapReduce jobs consuming everything.
Ported Postini search from Lucene to Bigtable and added new query operators to Gmail.
Built Google Vault for legal teams to search and identify relevant information across 100,000+ accounts in realtime.

Trilogy

Technical Analyst

Jun 2004 – May 2006 · 1 yr 11 mos

Built a profiler to automatically hunt down memory and CPU bottlenecks.
Optimized commission calculation platform for huge sales channels (100k+ people).
Extended the Mondrian OLAP engine to support custom cube structures.