Gaurav Yadav — CEO
Engineering Leader in Infrastructure and Platform Engineering focused on cost efficient scalability and reliability As an engineering leader with a strong background in full-cycle development, I specialize in building and maintaining distributed systems that are scalable, resilient, and secure. My expertise spans cloud and infrastructure technologies, with a focus on AWS and Azure, alongside extensive experience in disaster recovery planning and execution. I lead teams with a code-first approach to problem-solving, ensuring that solutions are efficient and maintainable from the ground up. I am also a firm believer in first principles thinking, breaking down complex challenges to their fundamental truths and innovating from there. Originally a full-stack developer, my career has evolved into a leadership role centered on systems, networking, and large-scale infrastructure. I have successfully guided teams in managing infrastructures that handle over 10 million requests per minute, maintaining high availability and performance. Leadership and Technical Expertise: - Infrastructure & Systems Management: Leading teams in Kubernetes adoption, including operator and CI/CD pipeline development. - Clustering & Orchestration: Expertise in guiding the use of Kubernetes, Mesos, Marathon, Chronos, and containerization technologies. - Programming: Proficient in driving development using Python, Golang, C, and JavaScript. - Configuration Management: Experienced in implementing and managing Chef and Ansible. - Monitoring & Observability: Leading the deployment of monitoring solutions with Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, and Graphite. - Disaster Recovery & Distributed Systems: Specialized in developing robust disaster recovery strategies for distributed systems to ensure resilience and rapid recovery. - Code-First Problem Solving & First Principles Thinking: Advocate for a code-first approach, coupled with a commitment to first principles thinking to tackle challenges at their core. - Additional Tools: Proficient in Terraform, Jenkins, and Rundeck. I am passionate about empowering teams to leverage cutting-edge tools and methodologies, driving the creation of distributed, high-performance systems with robust disaster recovery capabilities, while always approaching challenges with a code-first and first principles mindset.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure Engineering expert with a focus on scalable and resilient systems.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 10 yrs 3 mos
Skills
- Infrastructure & Systems Management
- Leadership
- Cloud Technologies
- Team Management
Career Highlights
- Led infrastructure for systems handling over 10 million requests per minute.
- Expert in disaster recovery planning and execution.
- Strong advocate for code-first problem-solving methodologies.
Work Experience
PW (PhysicsWallah)
Associate Director (2 yrs 2 mos)
Principal Architect (1 yr 5 mos)
Ola
Principal Engineer - Infrastructure (11 mos)
Technical Lead - Infrastructure Software Development, Cloud and Reliability Engineering. (1 yr 9 mos)
Senior Software Developer, Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering (1 yr 11 mos)
Software Developer, Infrastructure, Cloud and Reliability Engineering. (1 yr)
IOD (iamondemand)
Technical Writer (4 yrs 11 mos)
Practo
Platform Engineer (4 mos)
Software Engineer (7 mos)
Learnsteps
Building and Running (9 yrs 8 mos)
Unihire
Freelance Software Developer (1 mo)
Infinite Eurekas
Laravel and Angular developer (1 mo)
LazyLad
Python Intern (0 mo)
Frankly.me
Software Developer Intern (2 mos)
GeekShastra Pvt. Ltd.
Developer (2 mos)
Decent Solutions
Backend Developer (3 mos)
Twaran 2014
Coordinator (Head in Hierarchy) (3 mos)
Education
Master of Technology - MTech at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management
AISSCE at R.L.B lucknow