Gautam Borad
Co-Founder at The Apache Software Foundation
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolGautam Borad is a serial founder and technology leader with 11–15 years of hands-on engineering and entrepreneurial experience building products that scale for global customers. As founder of Predflow.ai he’s focused on democratizing AI/ML for retail, pushing autonomous AI agents that combine LLMs, domain knowledge, and custom tooling to create a digital workforce that drives measurable ROI. Prior to Predflow he led Freestone Infotech, delivering cutting-edge solutions for Silicon Valley startups where 70% of clients achieved successful exits, and he remains active in open source as a PMC/committer on Apache Ranger and Ambari. His Apache contributions show a security- and integration-first mindset—improving Ranger and Ambari back-end behavior and validations for enterprise Hadoop stacks. Based in Mumbai, he blends product-first entrepreneurship with deep backend and data-security expertise, enabling small and mid-size businesses to access tools once reserved for Fortune 500s.
11 years of coding experience
St Mary's High SchoolB.E, Computer Science, B.E, Computer Science at University of Mumbai
Github Skills (13)
apache-ranger10
javas10
api10
group-policy10
ambari10
policies10
back-end-development10
python10
apidoc10
amba10
java10
testing6
sql5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ranger
Dec 2014 - Feb 2019
Apache Ranger - To enable, monitor and manage comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform and beyond
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:281 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Gautam primarily contributed to the development of the Apache Ranger project, focusing on feature implementation and resolving issues within the project's back-end. These changes include enabling user creation without group association, adding pluggable logic to UI code, and the addition and removal of components. The commits demonstrate the user's involvement in various aspects of the project, and they implemented deserializers for specific data structures.
javaapacheapache-rangerrangerauthz
apache/ambari
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache Hadoop clusters.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:136 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Gautam primarily focused on enhancing the Apache Ambari project by modifying stack advisor files and test files. Their contributions involved adding validation checks and recommendations related to Ranger Hive Plugin, specifically concerning properties within hiveserver2-site. Additionally, they implemented changes to improve error messages for Ranger password issues and added recommendations for a 'hive.conf.restricted.list' property under hiveserver2-site. The commits indicate a focus on security and integration with Ranger.
provisioningpythonclustersjavascriptapache
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