Summary
Gaurav Yeole is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with a decade of experience building cloud-scale platforms on Azure, specializing in cloud governance, risk assessment, and AI-augmented developer workflows. He designs distributed systems that enforce compliance and gate deployments at scale, delivering measurable impact such as a 16x data-scanning throughput boost, 10x cost reduction in text analytics, and raising code coverage from 0% to 80%. Gaurav also architects production-tested AI workflows that compress multi-day engineering tasks into hours—spec-driven code generation, automated architecture reviews, and PR automation—while emphasizing when not to use AI and favoring deterministic shell scripts for repeatable work. He led incident responses, mentored engineers, and authored an AI engineering playbook adopted across teams, reflecting both hands-on execution and organizational influence. Based in Redmond, he combines deep distributed-systems expertise with practical AI judgement, and regularly shares learnings publicly to help teams avoid the AI hype cycle.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical Engineering at Sardar Patel College of Engineering (SPCE),Mumbai
Junior College, Electronics, Junior College, Electronics at Jai Hind Junior College, Dhule, Maharashtra.
Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida
English, Marathi, Hindi