Gurkanwal Batra
Engineering Manager at Twilio
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolGurkanwal Batra is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and scaling platform and compute infrastructure teams, currently leading Segment’s Batch and RealTime Compute Engines at Twilio from Bellevue, WA. He combines hands-on technical leadership—having designed a new real-time compute kernel that cut unit costs by 75% and saved ~$3M/year—with strong people management, delivery ownership, and cross-functional strategy. Prior roles at Microsoft, LiveRamp and MakeMyTrip show a consistent focus on high-throughput, low-latency systems and migrations to cloud-native stacks (GCP, Kubernetes, BigQuery). He has a practical research background (IJCAI co-authored work) and a master’s in CS from UCSD, which he leverages to drive measurable business outcomes like multi-million dollar COGS reductions. Known for coaching senior engineers while still contributing to architecture and code, he also led org-wide initiatives such as intern programs and livesite reliability improvements. Less obvious: he pairs large-scale cost optimizations with developer ergonomics, reducing ops burden while enabling unlimited horizontal scalability.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Non Medical/Science, High School Non Medical/Science at The Senior Study IIUniversity of California, San DiegoBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Punjab Engineering CollegeCertifications Big Data | Data Science | Machine Learning, Certifications Big Data | Data Science | Machine Learning at Online Courses at Coursera, Lynda and others
Github Skills (33)
brokers9
paradigms8
stream8
operation7
event-sourcing7
batch7
stream-processing6
golang6
profiling6
data-processing6
opentracing6
database5
datadog5
monitoring5
postgresql4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kanwals/DSReview
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
kanwals/revisiting-cpp
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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