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 2025Present · 8 mos · San Francisco, CA

Google

Software Engineer III

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

Rubrik

Software Engineer II (Grade 6)

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

Nutanix

3 roles

Member of Technical Staff 2

Aug 2022Aug 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 2021Jul 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 2020Jun 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.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2017Jan 2021

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