Summary
Gaurav Ghimire is a Cloud Platforms Lead (APAC) based in Greater Sydney with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure for low-latency trading systems. Currently leading cloud platform strategy at Optiver, he progressed there from Infrastructure Engineer to Senior Infrastructure Architect before taking the regional lead role, demonstrating deep operational expertise and architectural ownership. He has a strong DevOps and backend background from roles across startups and consultancies in EMEA and APAC, including co-founding a product startup and driving platform reliability at scale. Known for converting ideas into production-ready systems "in qwerty," he blends practical engineering with a founder’s mindset to deliver pragmatic automation and tooling. Colleagues would describe him as a builder who moves fast but prioritizes resilient, auditable systems for mission-critical environments.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English