About

Gaurav Bansal is an experienced Engineering Manager and problem solver with over 15 years of software development experience. He has a proven track record of directing raw product requirements and developing software architectures from concept to fully operational status in Agile (Kanban/Scrum) and Waterfall Methodologies. Gaurav is skilled in systems engineering in Client/Server/Web/ Enterprise software and SaaS/SOA development. He is enthusiastic about building and improving the Engineering Culture and Diversity. Currently working as an Associate Manager Software Engineering at UKG, Gaurav is leading 2 product engineering teams and function from India with 15+ high performing engineers working on Event-driven architecture, microservices, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, and C#. He participates in technical walkthroughs/ code reviews of other team members’ components, test plans, and results and helps them with gaps. In his previous role as an Associate Software Engineering Manager at Optum Global Solutions (A UnitedHealth Group Company), Gaurav was responsible for the execution and delivery of high-quality, modern software within an agile environment. He attracted, developed, and grew engineers to develop and continuously improve self-organizing, empowered, motivated teams with service-ownership values. He was also responsible for partnering with the product owner, other engineering managers, and technical leads to planning, execute, deploy, and operate tooling. Gaurav has a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow. He is skilled in a wide range of technologies including SQL, Azure, Web, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Microservices, DevOps, Docker, Kafka, ML, Research Scientist, Salesforce, dotNET, QA, Javascript, Jenkins, and AngularJS. Gaurav is an effective communicator, purposeful individual with strong leadership capabilities. He manages departmental resources, staffing, mentoring, and enhancing and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team. With his 17.03 years of relevant experience, Gaurav is a results-oriented person with a delivery focus.