Gaurav Lahoti

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led Khatabook to empower 25 million MSMEs.
Scaled engineering teams for high-growth startups.
Innovated educational tools for K-10 learning.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and EdTech leader with extensive experience in product development and team scaling.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DevelopmentTeam LeadershipFinancial TechnologyTeam BuildingProduct ScalingGrowth StrategyProduct ManagementEd-tech DevelopmentContent CreationEd-techSoftware DevelopmentAi IntegrationResearch And DevelopmentCryptographyResearchPrivacy EngineeringData ManagementEnergy ManagementData Security

Other Skills

AccountingFinancial ServicesPaymentsLendingUser GrowthTeam ManagementEducational TechnologyApp DevelopmentTaxation Models

About

Technology Leader with a proven track record of building and scaling products, engineering teams, and growth functions from the ground up. Passionate about creating products and teams that impact the lives of the masses in a substantial way. At Khatabook, enabled over 25 million MSMEs across India to access digital accounting, payments, and lending solutions—empowering small businesses with essential financial tools. Previously founded Genius Learning Labs, focused on transforming K–10 education by making teaching and learning more interactive and engaging by contextualizing real-world events/objects to academic concepts.

Experience

14 yrs

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Navi

Head of Engineering

Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 · 1 yr · Bengaluru

Khatabook

2 roles

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer

Promoted

Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Built comprehensive Accounting and Financial Services (payments & lending) for 10M+ Indian MSMEs. Led Engineering, Data Science, IT, and InfoSec compliance.

Product DevelopmentTeam Leadership

VP Engineering

Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 · 4 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Scaled Khatabook from inception to 10M+ MAU. Built the team and set the foundations across engineering (primary), product, design, and data for a high-growth VC-backed startup.

Team BuildingProduct Scaling

Genius learning labs

Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 · 4 yrs · Mumbai Area, India

An Ed-Tech company that created engaging educational content contextualizing real-world objects and events to academic concepts. Students and teachers used our suite of apps to learn/teach in live classes and at home.
Envisioned, architected, and developed an ecosystem of 13 web apps and 12 internal tools

Ed-Tech DevelopmentContent Creation

C3.ai

Software Engineer

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Platform Engineer. Added & updated functionalities on the Application AI platform that runs apps, data, analytics, and ML workloads on TBs of data.

Software DevelopmentAI Integration

Fujitsu

Research Intern

May 2013 – Aug 2013 · 3 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

Designed and implemented a customer-centric framework to manage, store, and share energy usage data in a privacy-enhanced manner. Published in Smart Energy Grid Security Workshop, 2013. Patented in the US, EU and Japan.

Data ManagementEnergy Management

University of illinois at urbana-champaign

Research Assistant

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Designed a privacy-preserving tax collection model as an alternative to gasoline tax for battery vehicles using mileage and location of the vehicle.
Constructed cryptographic model to preserve location privacy while allowing tax calculations on location data; also built real-time GPS spoofing detection for fraud prevention

Research and DevelopmentCryptography