Summary
Gourab Mitra is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in data platforms and database virtualization with 14 years of experience building scalable distributed systems for enterprises and high-growth startups. He has driven major migration programs that cut timelines by 75% and saved roughly $15M per migration by translating and virtualizing complex workloads across Teradata, Oracle, Redshift, Synapse and Databricks. A core contributor to flagship products at Datometry and a hands‑on builder of streaming analytics and AI-driven tooling at PayPal, he blends deep query optimization expertise (Erlang, Python, Java, SQL) with practical cloud migration strategy. Based in San Francisco, he combines research‑grade rigor from his MS work on query-log summarization with a knack for shipping production AI agents that auto-detect and fix schema drift, boosting developer velocity and reliability.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University at Buffalo
Bachelor of Engineering Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering Information Technology at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
High School Computer Science, High School Computer Science at Delhi Public School
English, Hindi, Bengali