Summary
Gursharan Ahir is a Senior Software Engineer at Google Cloud with seven years of experience building high-performance infrastructure for AlloyDB, including lakehouse federation, recommendation systems infra, and control/data plane APIs. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UC San Diego with a focus on computer vision and AI, and brings prior experience in low-latency embedded development at Microsoft and ML internships at Samsung and IIT Kharagpur. At Google he has driven projects that enable sub-millisecond agent access to analytical data and reverse ETL flows, demonstrating a blend of distributed systems and ML engineering. Comfortable across embedded software, research prototypes, and large-scale cloud services, he favors experimentation and practical impact. Based in San Francisco, he combines academic rigor—e.g., a CZI-funded napari plugin that led to an eLife publication—with product-focused delivery in cloud databases.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Hindi