Gaurav Narkhede
Senior Platform Architect
Wexford, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolGaurav Narkhede is a Senior Platform Architect with over a decade of experience designing and delivering Windows and web-based N-tier applications, currently shaping platform strategy at Zendesk. He brings deep expertise in OOP, SOLID principles, design patterns, and agile practices like TDD, CI and CD to lead teams through the full software development lifecycle. His background includes progressive technical leadership at UPMC Health Plan, where he mentored engineers and moved from consultant to technical team lead. Comfortable both hands-on and at the architecture level, he focuses on reliable, testable systems and pragmatic delivery. Trained in telecommunications and software engineering (Nagpur University, MS from West Virginia University), he blends protocol-level thinking with modern software craftsmanship. Colleagues describe him as a steady mentor who translates complex requirements into maintainable, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, 3.5, Master’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, 3.5 at West Virginia UniversityRashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University
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Github Skills (13)
time-measurement4
c-library3
measurement3
testing3
appveyor3
dotnet2
performance-testing2
executable2
ios2
csharp2
windows1
chronometer1
dotnet-core1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
narkhedegs/Chronometer
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 10 days
dotnettestingmeasurementperformancechronometer
narkhedegs/Whistle
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 14 days
dotnetc-libraryc-sharpcsharpwhistle
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