Summary
Gaurav Gupta is an engineering manager with over a decade of hands-on experience building high-traffic web platforms and real-time systems from Node.js backends to search and caching layers. He has led engineering teams at major Indian media organizations, most recently driving platform development at The Times of India after shaping flagship news sites at Hindustan Times using ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Redis and Akamai. Comfortable both architecting systems and rolling up his sleeves, he previously built multiplayer game backends and real-time features using socket.io and Pomelo, demonstrating strong server-side algorithm and concurrency skills. Gaurav combines operational pragmatism with product focus—shipping scalable, low-latency experiences for news and gaming audiences. Based in Noida, he pairs technical leadership with hiring and team mentoring experience accumulated across startups and large publishers. A pragmatic engineer-manager, he often brings lessons from game-server performance tuning to optimize user-facing news platforms.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Sri Siddhartha Institute Of Technologies
De Nobili School, Mugma
English, Hindi