Gautam Kanwar
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Facebook
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGautam Kanwar is a senior software engineering manager and founder with 15+ years building scalable backend services and mobile apps across messaging, privacy, and IoT domains. Based in Menlo Park, he has led global, multi-cultural teams from seed to 50+ engineers and scaled products from 0→1 to millions of users, including as an early hire at Hike Messenger which reached 100M+ downloads. A hands-on architect, he drives privacy-first engineering and cryptography-backed messaging at Facebook while mentoring managers and senior ICs on roadmap, architecture, and team growth. He’s founded two startups (one exited), shipped production Android and backend systems across Amazon, Adobe, and TigerConnect, and consistently blends product intuition with deep systems experience. Notably, he built Hike’s initial backend to work reliably on 2G networks and contributes to open source on GitHub.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
Hindi, English
Github Skills (2)
mqtt2
netty2
Github contributions (5)
techrobby/Android-AsyncMqttModule
Aug 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 3 pushes, 2 comments in 7 months
techrobby/http-mqtt-server
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:13 commits, 1 comment in 19 days
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