Summary
Gaurav K is a seasoned engineering and product leader with 8 years in senior roles and over two decades of hands-on experience building data protection, security, and SaaS platforms for enterprise customers. As a VP-level executive at Cohesity, Carbonite/OpenText, EMC, and Symantec he has launched ML-driven ransomware remediation, cloud data management, and high-SLA backup services while leading globally distributed teams of up to 1,100 across six countries. He combines deep technical fluency—modern languages, container platforms, automation and metrics—with go-to-market experience working directly with Fortune 100 customers and driving M&A from due diligence through integration. Notably, he has repeatedly incubated data-centric products spanning security, data protection and ML/AI, improving release cadence and operational SLAs that materially shifted market outcomes. Educated in data science and AI at UC Berkeley, he blends strategic product vision with hands-on engineering execution.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science Data Science Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence, Masters of Science Data Science Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence at University of California, Berkeley