About

Gaurav Gupta is a highly experienced Principal Solution Architect with over 18 years of professional experience working on various roles as a Cloud Architect, Solution Architect, Technical Operation Manager, Team Lead, and Project Manager in multiple geographies including Europe, Canada, and Asia. He is an AWS Professional certified, GCP Professional certified, and SAP Certified professional with certifications in Apache Cassandra 3.x Certified Administrator, Apache Cassandra 3.x Certified Developer, DB2 Certified, and AIX certified. Gaurav has strong architecture & design experience of deploying enterprise applications on GCP, Azure & AWS, monitoring and performance tuning of deployed applications on Cloud. He is a specialist in containerizing customer applications using EKS/ECS/Fargate/GKE/AKS, designing well-architected microservices-based architecture, and helping customers to save more than $1M+ / month using SPOT on AWS. He has designed multi-million request per second architecture on NoSQL - DynamoDB, Cassandra, Bigtable, Aerospike, etc. for top-notch startups of India/Global. Gaurav is a Quantum Enthusiast and has worked on integrating Cloud Technologies, ERP technology, Database Technologies, Hardware, and OS platforms to get the best business solution for clients. He has been working on NoSQL databases for 5+ years and is an effective team player with an ability to motivate, communicate, and form cohesive teams which in turn is responsible for providing excellent end results. Currently working as a Principal Solution Architect at Amazon, Gaurav has previously worked as a BIG Data / Cloud Architect at WalmartLabs and Application Architect at IBM. He has also worked for Canadian Pacific railway as Technical Delivery Manager and SAP Architect. Gaurav has been awarded as the Best Employee in the past with all his employers. Gaurav has a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Communication from Rajasthan University and completed his High School education from Kendriya Vidyalaya. He has a diverse tech stack, including Blockchain, AWS, Azure, Cassandra, GCP, Kafka, NoSQL, ECS, Big Data, Microservices, Spark, ML, Hadoop, test, Elastic Search, Search, and Web.