Gaurav Makhecha
Co-founder And COO at artisans Commerce Cloud
Rajkot, Gujarat, India
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Top SchoolGaurav Makhecha is a pragmatic technology leader and co-founder with 11 years of experience building web and AI-driven retail solutions across India and Southeast Asia. As COO of Artisan Commerce Cloud he combines hands-on engineering roots (Laravel, Vue.js) with operational leadership—driving profitability, client success with Fortune 500 customers, and team scaling. He previously founded and grew a backend-focused web agency from solo freelancer to a 10+ person team, delivering mission-critical systems and contributing to notable open-source work in the Laravel framework. Active in his local tech community and Rotary club, he balances product and people work with a passion for non-fiction reading and writing. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves fluidly between code, client strategy, and community-building, with a particular knack for turning retail AI learnings into practical operational gains.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting and Finance, A, Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting and Finance, A at Sydenham College, Churchgate, MumbaiD. IT., Information Technology, D. IT., Information Technology at NIIT Vile Parle, Mumbai.HSC, Commerce, Distinction, HSC, Commerce, Distinction at Alpha Highschool
English, Hindi, Gujarati
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Github Skills (19)
database-migrations10
application-framework10
query-builder10
laravel-mix10
app-framework10
laravel10
query-building10
php10
web-framework10
database-migration10
datatables9
laravel-passport6
asset-pipeline6
ruby-on-rails6
jquery6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Aug 2016 - Jun 2018
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 9 PRs, 10 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Gaurav contributed to the Laravel framework by implementing improvements to the query builder, specifically allowing closures as parameters in `orWhere()` clauses. They also addressed issues by allowing closures as parameters for the `$column` parameter. Furthermore, the user simplified `mix require` calls, and improved exception messages and migration hooks.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
freshbitsweb/slack-error-notifier
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
Send a message to a Slack channel when an error occurs in your Laravel Application (Laravel 5.5)
Contributions:2 releases, 13 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year
phpslacklaravel-5laravelerror
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