Gaurav Soni

VP of Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States14 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led significant performance improvements in BigQuery.
Managed multimodal data team at Google.
Developed cloud services with zero maintenance downtime.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Services and Data Analytics expert with extensive experience in high-performance systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Team LeadershipArchitectureCloud InfrastructureSoftware ArchitecturePerformance ImprovementReliability EngineeringSoftware DevelopmentCloud Computing

Other Skills

DevOpsPerformance ReviewsTeam AlignmentSystem PerformanceWritten CommunicationData AnalyticsTechnical DesignRepresentational State Transfer (REST)CommunicationObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)KubernetesGoogle BigQueryREST APIsSoftware DesignObject Oriented Design

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Software Engineer. Extensive experience in building Cloud services in AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Experience

14 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

8 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Google

4 roles

Software Engineering Manager

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

BigQuery GenAI engine multimodal data team.
Here’s a blog post covering our team’s recent work - https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/new-objectref-data-type-brings-unstructured-data-into-bigquery

Team LeadershipArchitectureDevOpsPerformance ReviewsTeam Alignment

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2022 – Oct 2023 · 11 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Tech Lead for BigQuery Omni Application team (Sigmod 2024 publication describing BQ Omni: https://research.google/pubs/biglake-bigquerys-evolution-toward-a-multi-cloud-lakehouse/)
I drove the design, execution, and launch for BigQuery Omni Glue federation feature (https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/glue-federated-datasets).
I led customer engagements with large BQ Omni customers to unblock their usage, and incorporate customer asks on the product roadmap.
I led the production and non-production engineer ops rotations for the product.

System PerformanceCloud InfrastructureSoftware ArchitectureWritten CommunicationData AnalyticsArchitecture+6

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2020 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Tech lead for BigQuery Omni performance team
I led performance improvements that resulted in 50+% decrease in query latency on TPC benchmarks
I led the initiative to horizontally scale the product 4x and defined the roadmap for elastic scaling of resources for cost efficiency.

Google BigQueryREST APIsCloud InfrastructureSoftware DesignSoftware DevelopmentCloud Computing+23

Software Engineer II

Feb 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Greater Seattle Area

I worked on GCP's Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory from Alpha to GA. I owned the areas of Availability, Reliability, Logging, and Monitoring. We were the first Windows SaaS service to launch on GCP.
I led the effort to improve service availability starting from 99% to 99.994% between alpha and GA releases
I built a low-footprint, high-durability, logging pipeline - to ensure critical Windows security and audit logs are captured with >99.9% log availability

REST APIsCloud InfrastructureSoftware DesignSoftware DevelopmentCloud ComputingGo (Programming Language)+9

Microsoft

Software Engineer @ Microsoft Azure

Jun 2014 – Feb 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Lead developer for C# based distributed services responsible for provisioning of RDMA networking infrastructure in Microsoft Azure data centers
Rapidly built and delivered ad-hoc tools and systems to ensure production stability of RDMA and to mitigate customer issues
Achieved zero maintenance downtime for continuous configuration upgrades on live network switches by creating a framework with extensive health checks
Sigcomm 2016 publication describing our work: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/rdma_sigcomm2016.pdf

Cloud InfrastructureSoftware DesignCloud ComputingObject Oriented DesignComputer NetworkingSoftware Testing+8

Amazon web services

Software Development Engineer Intern

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

C++ 11 based software development on the project eventually released as Amazon Aurora
Improved the testability and flexibility of existing codebase by implementing a better design for abstracting the underlying network socket layer
Increased throughput of networking stack by extending it to use UNIX domain sockets

Cloud InfrastructureCloud ComputingObject Oriented DesignComputer NetworkingBig Data AnalyticsSoftware Testing+6

Credit suisse

Software Developer

Jan 2012 – Jul 2012 · 6 mos

Re-engineered the design of a high throughput multithreaded scheduling engine in C#
Reduced code by 30% through refactoring existing WPF-based front-end software

Object Oriented DesignSoftware TestingC#.NETProgrammingSoftware Development

Nomura

Software Developer

Jul 2009 – Dec 2011 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Designed and implemented 4+ applications used by 5000+ employees in 4 countries using WPF, Silverlight, and ASP .NET
Enhanced multithreaded performance of existing infrastructure scanning software by 10%
Led a team of 3 junior developers to deliver C# based applications

Object Oriented DesignSoftware TestingC#.NETProgrammingSoftware Development