Lavish Gulati

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States4 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

Founding AI Engineer with strong expertise in distributed systems.
Proven track record in enhancing database performance and reliability.
Experience with leading tech companies like Google and Rubrik.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineer with deep expertise in distributed systems and database technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsDockerPostgresql

Other Skills

KubernetesRocksDBCassandraSoftware DevelopmentC++Machine LearningAndroid DevelopmentNodeJSHTMLC (Programming Language)Python (Programming Language)Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)MatlabDjangoMS Access

About

You can find me reading about databases and distributed systems whenever I am not at my workstation!

Experience

4 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 9 mos

Average Tenure

8 mos

Current Experience

Cekura (yc f24)

Founding AI Engineer

Aug 2025 – Present · 8 mos · San Francisco, CA

Google

Software Engineer III

Jan 2024 – Aug 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Rubrik

Software Engineer II (Grade 6)

Sep 2023 – Dec 2023 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Nutanix

3 roles

Member of Technical Staff 2

Aug 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr

Delivered IDF over ChakrDB, an effort to replace Cassandra as backend with in-house RocksDB, and run IDF in a containerized environment.
Designed and implemented priority-based cache loading during bootstrap to enhance serviceability by 50% after restarts/upgrades (patent pending).
RCAed and fixed some critical day-1 race conditions impacting data value duplication and data value loss in metric time-series queries for customers.

Distributed SystemsDockerKubernetesRocksDBCassandra

Member of Technical Staff - 1

Promoted

Jul 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr

Worked on the store and query layers of IDF, a distributed in-memory database powering the management plane of Nutanix infrastructure.
Drove various improvements, increasing metric data and lookup query throughput to 2x-5x and reducing backend ops by upto 90%.

PostgreSQLDockerKubernetes

Intern, Member of Technical Staff

Apr 2020 – Jun 2020 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

Packaged PostgreSQL binaries into Docker image and deployed a 2-node replication system on Kubernetes.
Created a benchmark tool to analyze performance of PostgreSQL replication on various parameters using sysbench, pgbench, and DBT2.