Summary
Gaurav Mishra is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance systems in operating systems, distributed systems, big data, and cloud back ends. Currently at LinkedIn, he contributed to Espresso—LinkedIn’s horizontally scalable, highly available data-as-a-service platform that handles the vast majority of online storage traffic. His background includes designing resource schedulers, detecting runtime anomalies, and applying machine learning for cluster resource prediction to drive >85% utilization. Comfortable across C, C++, and Python, he combines deep systems-level expertise with data-science-driven optimizations and a track record of fixing complex concurrency and performance issues in mobile and cloud environments. Based in Sunnyvale, he blends rigorous academic training from IIT-BHU and UW–Madison with hands-on production engineering at scale.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.68, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.68 at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics Engineering, 8.16, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics Engineering, 8.16 at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
English, Hindi