Gaurav Keswani
Self Employed
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGaurav Keswani is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and intelligent messaging platforms, currently contributing to commerce infrastructure at Shopify. He led the design and delivery of Mercury at Yelp, a multi-channel, ML-driven message-routing system that balances user experience with business value, and has shipped features from faceted search to bulk data import tooling at Shopify. A Cornell M.Eng. and former Snowflake intern, he blends strong academic grounding in databases with hands-on experience in distributed services, serverless pipelines, and integrations with third-party providers. Based in Sunnyvale, he also invests in frontier tech companies, signaling a broad interest in how platform-level software powers new product categories. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who moves quickly from prototype to production while keeping long-term reliability in mind.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at University of Mumbai
Sindhi, Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
443reputation
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3answers
10questions
Github Skills (38)
finance10
stimulusjs10
hotwire10
turbo10
postgresql9
design-tokens9
ruby9
vscode-extension9
component-library9
react9
ruby-on-rails8
figma-plugin8
typescript8
shopify8
elasticsearch6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gkeswani92/dotfiles
May 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:75 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
gkeswani92/live-review-places
Oct 2016 - Nov 2020
Map Nearby Places is RESTful service written in Python/Flask to help you find and rate interesting places near you using the Google Places API and the Yelp Fusion API.
Contributions:4 PRs, 66 pushes, 12 branches in 4 years 1 month
pythonyelp-fusioninterestingflaskgoogle-places-api
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