Himanshu Gilani
Architect at Spectro Cloud
Los Gatos, California, United States
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Top SchoolHimanshu Gilani is an architect and engineering leader with 14–15 years of experience designing and delivering scalable web applications, high-volume distributed systems, and cloud-native services. He has led major redesigns to microservices and Kubernetes platforms, most recently moving into an architect role at Spectro Cloud after senior engineering leadership at Intuit and Cisco. Himanshu combines hands-on system design (Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, MongoDB) with product vision, roadmap ownership, and cross-org program leadership that mentors and scales engineering teams. His background spans startups and large enterprises—from founding a web-archiving startup to building analytics and ad-serving systems at Oracle and Yahoo—bringing both entrepreneurial grit and production-grade discipline. Notably, he has driven multi-tenancy and SSO integrations and optimized systems that handled millions of transactions in short windows, demonstrating an emphasis on performance and operability. Based in Los Gatos, CA, he pairs a graduate CS research background with practical architecture experience across cloud, big-data, and platform engineering.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at SST COETMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of South Florida
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Github Skills (31)
npm9
palette9
nodejs9
vertex8
html6
couchapp6
security6
java6
couchdb6
markdown6
ssl6
javascript6
kubernetes4
converting4
documentation4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kates/html2markdown
Apr 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 9 months
to-markdownmarkdown-to-htmlmarkdown
hgilani/html2markdown
Sep 2012 - Jan 2013
Contributions:3 commits in 3 months
javascriptconvertingmarkdown-to-htmlto-markdownmarkdown
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