Gaurav Lahoti
Head Of Engineering at Navi
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolGaurav Lahoti is a seasoned technology leader with 14 years of experience, currently serving as Head of Engineering and previously scaling Khatabook from inception to 10M+ MAU and enabling digital financial services for over 25 million MSMEs. A founder-CTO with deep product and engineering chops, he has built multi-disciplinary teams across engineering, data science, product and security, and designed end-to-end ecosystems including 13 customer-facing web apps and a suite of internal tools at an ed-tech startup. His background spans applied research in privacy-preserving systems and platform engineering for TB-scale AI workloads, blending rigorous academic training from UIUC and IIT Bombay with hands-on delivery in high-growth startups. Known for turning complex domain problems—payments, lending, education—into scalable, user-focused products, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and a track record of operationalizing compliance and data-driven growth.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (127)
redux-persist10
visual-studio10
javascript10
editor10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
redux-middleware10
redux10
react10
persist10
react-components9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Dante-101/DefinitelyTyped
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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Dante-101/redux-persist-transform-compress-encrypt
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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