Summary
Gaurav Sharma is a senior security software engineer with 11+ years building and operating secure cloud and embedded systems, currently focused on protecting gaming cloud services at NVIDIA/GeForce Now. He brings deep hands-on expertise in secrets management, PKI, and runtime security from roles at HashiCorp (HCP Vault) and Uber where he ran a CA issuing 20k daily certs and maintained 99.99% SLA services for autonomous vehicles. Comfortable across languages and stacks (Golang, C++, Python, Java) and cloud tooling, he has delivered container security pipelines, automated cloud attack-surface scanning, and CI/CD policy enforcement with OPA. Gaurav pairs individual contributor craftsmanship with technical leadership—leading runtime teams and mentoring engineers to ship customer-centric, observable systems. His background spans telecommunications and embedded media systems to modern cloud-native security, giving him a practical edge in integrating low-level networking/PKI concerns into scalable platform services.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at MGM's College of Engineering and Technology
Master of Science (MS) Telecommunications Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Telecommunications Engineering at University of Maryland
SSC and HSC Science, SSC and HSC Science at K.V., O.N.G.C Panvel
Hindi, English