Gaurav Arora is a senior engineering manager with 14+ years of experience building cloud-native, scalable payments and fintech platforms across emerging markets and global enterprises. He has led end-to-end teams of 60+ engineers, SREs and product managers to deliver high-impact products—most notably Airtel Money services used by 23 million customers and platforms processing billions in annual value. Equally comfortable in hands-on architecture and people leadership, he has launched PCI-compliant global payments stacks, cross-border remittance switches, developer portals and observability tooling from scratch. His background spans startups to Google, with a track record of reducing time-to-market, improving ROI-driven processes and operationalizing ML for business decisions. Based in Hyderabad, he combines deep systems experience (Kubernetes, cloud infra) with an INSEAD management perspective, making technical choices that directly drive product and business outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Sciences, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Sciences at Shri G S Institute of Technology & Science
General Management & Leadership, General Management & Leadership at INSEAD
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Gaurav Arora - Senior Engineering Manager at Google