Harvinder Ghotra
Senior Engineering Manager at Cohere
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolHarvinder Ghotra is a Senior Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience leading cloud-native and backend engineering teams, currently based in New York and now at Cohere after a multi-year tenure at Datadog. He blends hands-on systems and DevOps expertise—contributing to Datadog’s serverless functions repo by implementing S3-based caching, refactoring metrics collection, and hardening CI/CD with Docker buildx—with people leadership across fast-moving startup and enterprise environments. His background spans compiler-level engineering at IBM through product engineering for image-recognition and event-driven platforms, giving him deep appreciation for performance, observability, and operational rigor. Known for translating complex distributed systems requirements into pragmatic delivery plans, he mentors engineers to ship reliable, testable code at scale. Unexpectedly, his career path includes both low-level compiler validation and high-level serverless telemetry work, enabling a rare cross-layer perspective on performance and tooling. He holds a BEng in Computer Engineering from York University and consistently contributes to open-source projects that improve production observability.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Engineering at Lassonde School of Engineering - York University
Punjabi, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
python10
aws-lambda10
aws10
serverless10
unit-testing9
dockers9
docker9
amazon-s39
aws-s39
go9
s3-bucket9
githubaction-workflow8
cicd8
github-ci8
camera6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-serverless-functions
Sep 2020 - Aug 2022
Repo of AWS Lambda and Azure Functions functions that process streams and send data to Datadog
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 24 reviews, 17 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Harvinder primarily focused on enhancing the AWS Lambda and Azure Functions code for Datadog, as indicated by the repository description. Key contributions involved implementing an S3-based cache for shared tags, refactoring the metrics collection process, and improving the handling of inferred spans. They also played a role in build and release by using Docker buildx and modifying the CI/CD pipeline.
azure-functionsserverlessaws-lambdastreamsaws
hghotra/eml2pdflib
May 2020 - Apr 2022
Library to convert email body to pdf document
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 11 months
pdfemailbodypdf-generationpdf-document
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