Gaurav Raval

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 15+ years of engineering leadership experience
  • Expert in Developer Experience and System Reliability
  • Pursuing PhD in AI Security for advanced engineering solutions
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Infrastructure expert with a focus on AI Security and Developer Experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipDistributed SystemsEngineering ManagementData EngineeringReliability EngineeringCloud EngineeringPlatform DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentTest AutomationCloud SolutionsAgile MethodologiesWeb Services

Other Skills

DevOpsInterpersonal RelationshipsAd NetworksMobile AdvertisingData CentersContainerizationKubernetesPerformance EngineeringContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)JavaAmazon Web Services (AWS)Organizational LeadershipLinuxEngineering StrategySite Reliability Engineering

About

Engineering leader with 15+ years of experience building high-performing organizations at the intersection of Developer Experience (DevEx), System Reliability (SRE), and Product Delivery. Driven by the philosophy that engineering exists to accelerate business growth. Specialized in architecting platforms, tools, and cultures that empower teams to ship revenue-impacting products with speed, security, and high confidence. Leadership Focus: Strategic Delivery & Business Impact: Bridging the gap between technical execution and commercial goals. Directed engineering for a B2B product vertical at Noon Academy, partnering with the Saudi Government to deliver a sponsored education platform that onboarded thousands of students and unlocked new revenue streams. Developer Velocity & Reliability: Transforming organizations from reactive problem-solving to proactive engineering. Architected resilience strategies for large-scale distributed systems and built foundational SRE/QA tools & frameworks that supported massive scale at Flipkart and Index Exchange. Leader of Leaders: Passionate about organizational design and talent density. Successfully mentored senior engineers into Engineering Management roles while building distributed, autonomous teams that take full ownership of system quality and uptime. The Future of Engineering: Currently pursuing a PhD in AI Security, researching the application of Small Language Models (SLMs) for lateral movement & ransomware detection. Bringing a forward-looking perspective on leveraging AI to secure and stabilize complex Industry 4.0 architectures. Thriving in dynamic environments where engineering excellence serves as a core strategic business driver.

Experience

16 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Index exchange

Senior Engineering Manager

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · Hybrid

  • Leading engineering efforts to revolutionalize advertising industry
Distributed SystemsEngineering LeadershipDevOpsInterpersonal RelationshipsEngineering ManagementAd Networks+6

Noon - the social learning platform

Engineering Manager

May 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Enabling millions of students to have unique social learning experience
  • Scaling Tech Stack and Teams
  • Realtime Data Engineering & Data Science at scale
  • Improving Engineering Productivity at Scale
JavaDistributed SystemsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Organizational LeadershipLinuxEngineering Management+1

Blue yonder

Enterprise Architect

Nov 2020 – May 2021 · 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Leading data engineering efforts to bring reliability at scale in Single Source Of Truth (SSOT) Software as a Service (SaaS) product which will eventually power all AI/ML needs in an organization.
JavaLinuxInterpersonal RelationshipsData EngineeringReliability Engineering

Flipkart.com

Software Development Engineer IV

Jul 2014 – Nov 2020 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Leading engineering efforts in building and maintaining cutting edge cloud platform entities at Flipkart
JavaLinuxInterpersonal RelationshipsCloud EngineeringPlatform Development

Inmobi

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

May 2012 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked on analytics product at InMobi
  • Validated heterogeneous system (handson experience on: Cassandra, Redis, Java, Pig, HDFS, Selenium, Maven, PostgreSQL, JMeter, Linux, Tomcat, Github, JIRA etc.)
JavaLinuxSoftware DevelopmentTest Automation

Altair engineering

Senior Member of Tecnical Staff

Jul 2011 – May 2012 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Assignment on Altair Engineering's High Performance Computing & Cloud based solution for enterprises.
  • It require to work in Agile / SCRUM environment with distributed teams.
JavaLinuxCloud SolutionsAgile Methodologies

Avaya

3 roles

Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2010 – Jul 2011 · 9 mos

  • Contributed in prototype & working solution - a web portal to manage Avaya's SME solution. The solution is base on RESTful web services (back end) and EXT-GWT (front end). Project management on JIRA studio (Subversion, JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Crucible etc.).
  • This assignment requires to work with distributed teams across globe in Agile / SCRUM environment.
JavaLinuxSoftware DevelopmentWeb Services

SV Engineer

May 2009 – Oct 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • An Agile (SCRUM) member for centralized remote management project; concentrating QA.
  • Assignment involves solution verification of next generation web based IP telephony & management application concentrating on performance, scalability and security. Requires to write, modify and execute test framework (automated and manual test cases); escalate the issues to concerned team.

Intern

Nov 2008 – May 2009 · 6 mos

  • Assignment on Communication Manager (CM), Avaya SIP Enablement Services (SES) and test automation involving configuration and development (enhancement) of existing solutions.
  • Endpoints used AVAYA-SIP phones(96XX,46XX,16XX,Spark Emulator and IP Soft phone)

Education

GLS University

Doctor of Philosophy

Jul 2024 – Jul 2028

Vishwakarma Institute Of Technology

Master of Engineering — Computer Science & Engineering

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009

North Maharashtra University

BE — Information Technology

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