Summary
Gauri Saykar is a Senior Manager in Platform Engineering with 11 years of experience delivering scalable infrastructure, data, and ML platforms across startups and large enterprises. She combines hands-on expertise in GCP/AWS, Kubernetes, Golang, Kafka, Spark and observability tooling with a track record of building and scaling multidisciplinary teams under tight timelines. At companies including Walmart Global Tech, Shopify, Oracle and WeWork she has led platform architecture, developer platforms and big data cloud services, often bridging product and engineering to ship new products. Known for creating inclusive cultures that foster innovation, she excels at turning complex scalability and multi-tenant challenges into reliable, production-ready systems. Beyond management, she retains deep technical ownership from API and microservices design to deployment and monitoring, making her a pragmatic leader who still codes when it matters.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science and Engineering at University at Buffalo