Gaurav Kumar is an architect and senior engineering leader with 13+ years scaling big-data and real-time systems across OTT, travel and telecom, currently building petabyte-scale data platforms at JioHotstar. He designs and ships high-throughput ingestion and serving layers that have supported 59M concurrent users and 300M+ RPM, and he led teams to productionize GenAI/ML-based data quality and automated DQ-check generation. Previously at MakeMyTrip he built customer segmentation, real-time targeting, a novel BoulderDB combining serving/streaming/storage, and an NLP-driven hotel review search that boosted conversions. Comfortable from low-level systems in Rust and Java to ML tooling and RAG pipelines, he blends hands-on engineering with architecture and people leadership. A pragmatic problem solver, he’s also a technical reviewer of a Big Data book and has operational experience running multi-hundred-node Hadoop clusters and high-traffic search systems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology (GGSIPU)
Higher School Certificate Science, Higher School Certificate Science at Kulachi Hansraj Model School
Column oriented distributed data store ideal for powering interactive applications
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