Sharad Gaur
Staff Production Engineer at Shopify
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSharad Gaur is a seasoned software engineer and architect, currently a Staff Production Engineer at Shopify, based in Atlanta. With 12+ years building distributed systems and reliable production software, he has led observability initiatives at Splunk and cloud engineering at Oracle, and now drives scalable, customer-focused outcomes at Shopify. Earlier in his career he designed HyDRA data-warehousing and analytics dashboards as an Architect at Tarleton State University’s Center of Agribusiness Excellence and at QinetiQ North America, focusing on data mining and UI integration. He has also developed web and mobile apps, and even a Raspberry Pi-based magic mirror project, reflecting hands-on experimentation beyond core engineering. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed to FluentD, Prometheus, Weave, Kite, and the-graph, illustrating breadth across data tooling and infrastructure. He holds a Masters in Information Technologies (CS Engineering) from Chaudhary Charan Singh University and a BSc in Mathematics and Physics, plus a GIS Certificate from Penn State, underscoring a strong analytical foundation.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science (Mathematic and Physics), Mathematics, Bachelors of Science (Mathematic and Physics), Mathematics at Chaudhary Charan Singh UniversityCertificate in Geographic Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems, Certificate in Geographic Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems at Penn State
English, Hindi
Github Skills (46)
monitoring10
deduplication10
glusterfs10
kubernetes10
sql-parser10
observability10
high-availability10
storage10
time-series10
prometheus-exporter10
system-monitoring10
opsgenie10
google-cloud-storage10
lucky-framework10
time-series-database10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sharadgaur/thanos
Feb 2021 - Jul 2023
Highly available Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities. A CNCF Incubating project.
Contributions:7 PRs, 49 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
system-administrationpromqlprometheusstoragecloudnative
sharadgaur/promql-engine
Sep 2022 - Jun 2023
Experimental PromQL engine implementation based on Volcano paper.
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 65 pushes in 9 months
promqlvolcano
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