Summary
Sharath Gururaj is a veteran engineering leader with 11+ years building large-scale data platforms and infrastructure, currently heading engineering in India for Cermati.com to design its Big Data, ML, and analytics stack. He has led petabyte-scale platforms and real-time ingestion—scaling Kafka to handle ~1M events/sec—and built storage and data lake solutions at Flipkart and Cermati. Comfortable from low-level performance tuning to org-building, he has hands-on experience with BigQuery, Flink, BigTable, DBT, MLFlow, Kubernetes, CI/CD and data governance including pentesting and access control. He combines product-minded engineering with recruiting, incorporation and operational leadership to stand up development centers and PaaS capabilities. An early contributor to platform reliability and tooling (including schema registries, validation frameworks and feature/model stores), he pairs academic rigor from Columbia and IISc with practical optimizations that have yielded measurable performance gains. Based in Bengaluru, he’s actively hiring talent to scale a production-grade data platform across engineering, infra and ML.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
School of continuing education Deep Learning - Theory and Practice, School of continuing education Deep Learning - Theory and Practice at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electronics and communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electronics and communications Engineering at B. M. S. College of Engineering
Executive General Management Program, Executive General Management Program at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Columbia University
English, Hindi, Kannada