About

Gaurav Gaur is an aggressive and goal-oriented software professional with around 2 years of experience in the tech industry. He is currently working as a Full-Stack Java Developer (Product Engineer) at TCS, Chennai. Gaurav is capable of upskilling/cross-skilling at a rapid pace and can be deployed to any team with minimal KTs/guidance. He believes in taking strong ownership of the features which he works upon and can work effectively in teams as an individual technical contributor with minimal guidance/support. Gaurav has good mentoring skills and is capable of guiding junior developers. Known for his leadership, risk-taking ability, and optimistic attitude among his peers, Gaurav has developed an AI-powered retail optimization suite at TCS, which helps clients optimize merchandising, pricing, and supply chain decisions in an integrated manner. In his tenure of 2 years, he has developed REST APIs using Spring Boot, ensured adherence to code coverage and proper unit testing of the code using Junit and Mockito, and rigorously tested API endpoints using Postman. Gaurav has worked on analyzing functional product requirements and turning them into technically concrete business solutions, interacting actively with Product Owners to bridge any understanding gap in requirements. He has followed best practices of Logging, caching, etc. while ensuring Scalability, Availability, and Consistency of the System. Gaurav has mentored 3 Junior Developers in his tenure, was able to successfully guide them to write production-level code after proper training, and has worked in 4 different Agile teams as a developer during his tenure, always adhering to the delivery deadlines and had the least defects to delivery ratio in his teams. He has worked on more than 5 Spring Boot Microservices in the project, developed 2 Screens (user level view of the software) all by himself, and worked as a Spring Batch developer for a batch service, deployed the service in end-to-end client environment within a strict timeline of 2 months, the batch service served as a POC (Proof Of Concept) for other 2 batch services and is still live in production. Gaurav's past experience includes working as an AWS Cloud Computing Intern at Grras Solution, where he focused on learning and implementing core AWS services, like IAM, VPC, S3, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, SNS, Cloudwatch, ELB, AutoScaling, Route53, AWS Lambda. He has a