About

Gaurav Gupta is an accomplished Engineering Manager with 18 years of experience in building products and cloud-based services. He has a diverse product experience that spans across areas of virtual assistance, big data processing, mobile identity, payments, backup, disaster recovery, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure. He has 8 years of engineering management experience and is currently working as an Engineering Manager at Amazon, leading the Amazon Search Data platform team responsible for delivering high-quality and fresh ML model training data. Gaurav has a strong tech background and has worked with companies like Microsoft and Verizon, where he led teams of developers and architects. At Microsoft, he worked on defining and launching Azure services that allowed backup and disaster recovery of on-premise workloads to Windows Azure. He was part of the core technical team that designed the distributed service and storage architecture for managing cloud backups using Azure compute, blob storage, and tables. He also conceptualized and designed the client-side encryption mechanism for cloud backups to ensure customer data is kept safe and secure in the cloud. At Verizon, Gaurav led a team of 24 developers to build mobile internet services that aimed at creating a new B2B revenue stream. These services enabled mobile website/application developers to increase their users' engagement and conversions. He hired and built a world-class engineering team to build an internet services platform and drive the development of backend services using Java/MySql, frontend portals using AngularJS/JQuery, and Android/iOS SDKs and mobile applications. Gaurav has a BTech and MTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has a strong tech stack that includes Senior Software Engineer, Blockchain, Search, ML, Mobile, Spark, AWS, infra, Azure, Backend, Big Data, test, Java, MySQL, iOS, Frontend, product manager, and ReactJS. He is also an advisor for blockchain startups, leveraging his expertise in the field. Gaurav is a hands-on engineering leader who provides clear career growth plans and opportunities for managers and developers to learn and grow. He has experience working in an organization that is seeing hyper-growth in terms of features and territories expansion and working through the challenges of prioritization and scoping of new features while ensuring operations workload and tech debt remains low.