Gautam Korlam
Co-Founder at Gitar
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGautam Korlam is a Principal Engineer and startup co-founder with 12 years of experience building large-scale developer tooling, monorepos, and mobile infrastructure from the ground up. He led major migrations at Uber—consolidating thousands of JVM and Android repos, moving builds to Buck/Bazel, and creating remote developer experiences that scaled to thousands of developers and 5k commits weekly. A hands-on engineer, he’s contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Facebook’s Buck, Robolectric, and Jake Wharton’s ButterKnife, and co-created OkBuck to bridge Gradle and Buck for Android monorepos. He combines deep build-system and automation expertise with practical ML-for-code work (training code LLMs integrated into IDEs) and a track record of measurable developer-experience improvements (raising NPS from -50 to +10). Based in San Francisco, he pairs entrepreneurial leadership from his role as Gitar CTO with the operational rigor of large-platform engineering.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraBachelor of Technology (Honors) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (Honors) Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Github Skills (21)
dependency-management10
unit-testing10
buck10
annotations10
compiler-development10
butterknife10
robolectric10
java10
annotation-processing10
javas10
code-generation10
android10
build-automation10
build-tools10
gradlew10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
uber/okbuck
Apr 2016 - Aug 2022
OkBuck is a gradle plugin that lets developers utilize the Buck build system on a gradle project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Build & Release Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build & Release EngineerContributions:107 releases, 19 reviews, 812 commits in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Gautam primarily worked on enhancing the OkBuck Gradle plugin, focusing on build process improvements and feature implementation. Their contributions involved configuring and integrating a tool for automatic version management and dependency fetching. The user also implemented features related to annotation processing, and code generation for the project, optimizing the build setup for both Java and Groovy modules. The contributions also included fixing project name issues and supporting instrumentation apks, as well as integrating code and refactoring and general code style improvement.
buckgradlegroovygradle-projectandroid
facebook/buck
Jun 2016 - Jul 2020
A fast build system that encourages the creation of small, reusable modules over a variety of platforms and languages.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 101 commits, 121 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Gautam's contributions primarily focused on improving the build system and related tools for the Buck build system. They addressed a bug in the dexing process related to warning messages, preventing build progress from stalling. Further contributions included adding support for generating dummy R.java files, manifest placeholder support, and features related to code coverage. The user's work involved modifying Java code within the Buck build system and its Android-specific plugins.
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