Gaurav Sarma
Software Engineer at Stripe
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolGaurav Sarma is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years' experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and data infrastructure, currently driving engineering at Stripe from Singapore. He has led high-impact projects across startups and enterprises—sharding Mongo collections with 400M+ records, architecting pub/sub frameworks with exactly-once Kafka delivery, and building high-throughput event engines ingesting hundreds of thousands of events per second. Hands-on across Kubernetes, Helm, GCP, and custom operators, he also brings strong DevOps and chaos-testing practices to production reliability. At Rippling and VMware he combined platform thinking with pragmatic automation, migrating payment processors and creating an event analytics platform handling millions of events daily. He writes code and technical blogs and maintains a personal site showcasing his work, signaling a habit of documenting engineering trade-offs beyond day-to-day delivery. Colleagues describe him as a builder who pairs deep systems knowledge with an eye for observable, self-healing infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology at SRM UniversityDon Bosco Senior Secondary School
English, Hindi
Github Skills (16)
golang10
storage-engine10
rule10
in-memory10
database10
key-value7
storage7
kubernetes6
kafka6
consensus6
raft6
etcd6
distributed-systems6
distributed-database5
key-value-store5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gsarmaonline/gorpi
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Golang Gin framework's boilerplate code
Contributions:6 PRs, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
gauravsarma1992/httpcache
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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