Summary
Gaurav Kumar is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and delivering distributed, scalable, and secure systems across high-growth products at Atlassian, Expedia Group, and Yatra. He has led cross-functional programs that turned legacy monoliths into modern API-first architectures, improved reliability and observability, and delivered multi-million-dollar revenue and cost savings (including a $72M annual revenue projection for an Atlassian DLP product and a ~$2.9M annual cost reduction at Expedia). Comfortable across Java, AWS, CI/CD, SQL/NoSQL/NewSQL stores and GraphQL, he architects TypeSafe public APIs and large-scale event processing handling hundreds of thousands of TPS. A hands-on technical leader and mentor, he standardizes SLO-driven monitoring, automated debugging, and rapid rollout practices such as canary releases. Outside core engineering, he brings a creative streak—being a UI/UX-interested full‑stack developer, blockchain enthusiast and artist—hinting at a product-minded approach to technical problems. Currently on sabbatical in Faridabad, he combines deep systems experience with pragmatic cost- and reliability-focused decision making.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Instrumentation and control, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Instrumentation and control at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
Hindi, English