Shantanu Gawde
Staff Software Engineer at Uber
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolShantanu Gawde is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience designing and shipping distributed systems at Uber, where he progressed from intern to staff engineer working on SDV dispatch and large-scale job orchestration. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UCLA and combines strong algorithmic foundations (taught as a TA for algorithms) with hands-on systems work—replacing distributed lock managers with hashrings and in-memory mutexes to improve runtime efficiency. Comfortable across backend services, gRPC/protobuf APIs, and cloud architectures, he has a track record of taking designs from prototype to production in high-throughput environments. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he pairs production-focused engineering with mentoring and teaching experience that helps bridge research-level ideas and reliable operational delivery.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at Sardar Patel Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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Github contributions (5)
shantanugawde/SnakesAndLadders
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
shantanugawde/asclepius2
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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