Gaurav Sharma
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGaurav Sharma is a software engineer with a strong background in systems and cloud-native development, currently a Software Development Engineer II at AWS working on the Bottlerocket OS. He brings over a decade of engineering experience across finance and cloud services, having built low-latency C++ feed handlers at Nasdaq and scalable screening and alert frameworks at Amazon. At AWS he contributes backend and DevOps expertise to Bottlerocket, authoring Rust-based settings extensions for PKI, OCI hooks, DNS, ECS, autoscaling and other container-hosting concerns. Comfortable across languages and domains, he blends systems-level rigor with production-focused automation and an eye for secure, maintainable integrations. Based in Seattle, he holds a master’s in computer science from Stevens Institute of Technology and has a track record of shipping infrastructure that sits close to the metal while enabling higher-level cloud services.
2 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Stevens Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Technology Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science Engineering at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (5)
container10
rust10
devops10
serde10
operating-system10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket
May 2024 - Mar 2025
An operating system designed for hosting containers
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 releases, 17 reviews, 17 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Gaurav primarily contributed to the creation and integration of settings extensions within the Bottlerocket OS project. They developed extensions for various functionalities, including PKI, OCI hooks, DNS, ECS, CloudFormation, bootstrap containers, autoscaling, host containers, container runtime, and OCI defaults. The user's work involved writing Rust code for these extensions, integrating them into the system models, and ensuring their proper functioning.
containershostingoperating-systemrustlinux
mgsharm/bottlerocket
May 2024 - Mar 2025
An operating system designed for hosting containers
Contributions:49 pushes, 17 branches in 10 months
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