GAURAV GUPTA
Noida
Summary
Senior Staff Engineer with 14+ years of experience architecting highly scalable distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and mission-critical backend services for enterprise SaaS products.
Currently leading an engineering team responsible for designing and operating backend platforms supporting 60,000+ enterprise customers and over 10 million employees worldwide. Extensive experience designing high-throughput event-driven architectures processing 10M+ Kafka events/day and backend services handling 5M+ API requests/day.
Specialize in designing resilient distributed systems, improving platform scalability, reducing operational complexity, and driving technical strategy across cross-functional engineering organizations. Proven ability to lead architecture initiatives, mentor engineers, improve production reliability, and deliver large-scale platform modernization programs.
Overview
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Certification
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15
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Staff Engineer
Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG)
04.2019 - Current
- Architect and technical owner for enterprise backend services supporting one of the world's largest Workforce Management platforms.
- Architected the Event Connector Platform enabling scalable event-driven communication across distributed microservices.
- Designed cloud-native backend platforms serving 60,000+ enterprise customers and 10M+ employees.
- Built services processing more than 5M API requests/day.
- Designed event streaming infrastructure processing 10M+ Kafka events/day.
- Designed scalable multi-tenant SaaS services.
- Engineered resilient communication patterns in distributed systems.
- Designed Kafka-based event processing pipelines with retry, idempotency, consumer groups and dead-letter queues.
- Resolved Kafka partitioning, consumer lag and throughput bottlenecks in production.
- Introduced resilient asynchronous communication patterns across microservices.
- Improved backend efficiency with concurrency optimization.
- Reduced API latency by 40% through architectural redesign, async processing and database optimization.
- Established observability for cloud services using monitoring tools.
- Built cloud-native services using GKE, Google Secret Manager, Cloud Storage and Dataflow.
- Implemented observability using OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Grafana, Splunk and Dynatrace.
- Directed architectural strategy for enterprise systems, aligning with business goals.
- Led production incident response, conducted root cause analysis, and implemented reliability enhancements.
- Led a team of 8 engineers across architecture, delivery and mentoring.
- Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews and technical interviews.
- Drive engineering standards and long-term technical roadmap.
- Collaborated with Principal Engineers and Architects to shape and implement long-term platform modernization.
Senior Technical Consultant
IRIS Software
Noida
06.2015 - 04.2019
- Led technical consulting projects for diverse clients across multiple industries.
- Collaborated with clients to identify and analyze their technical requirements.
- Developed and implemented software solutions to enhance client operations.
- Designed enterprise financial platforms with Java, Spring, Oracle, SOAP Web Services, and WebLogic to enhance financial operations for Lord Abbett.
Software Engineer
Icreon Communications
Noida
06.2014 - 06.2015
- Developed logistics platforms and integrated enterprise systems for XPO Logistics, enhancing operational efficiency.
- Developed software solutions to enhance client communication platforms.
- Implemented best practices for code quality and software development processes.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define project requirements.
- Earned Gem of the Quarter award for exceptional contributions to project success.
Software Engineer
Thomson Digital
Noida
06.2011 - 06.2014
- Built publishing workflow automation platforms leveraging Java Spring and Kafka for improved efficiency.
- Integrated object-oriented design techniques into projects, improving usability and maintainability.
- Conducted code reviews ensuring compliance with company coding standards.
- Recommended enhancements to optimize team processes, resulting in smoother project workflows.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to refine project workflows, ensuring alignment with deliverables.
- Mentored junior developers on key programming languages, enhancing team capabilities.
- Resolved customer issues by developing effective workarounds and debugging solutions.
- Participated actively in agile ceremonies for enhanced communication and project tracking.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science Engineering
Kurukshetra University
06-2011
Skills
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- Event architecture
- Consumer Groups
- Kafka Partitioning
- DLQs
- Retry Patterns
- Idempotency
- Fault Tolerance
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Spring Framework
- REST APIs
- Microservices
- Hibernate
- Spring Data JPA
- Google Cloud Platform
- GKE
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Google Secret Manager
- Cloud Storage
- Dataflow
- Concurrency management
- Multithreading techniques
- Low-latency systems
- High-throughput APIs
- JVM Tuning
- Query Optimization
- OpenTelemetry
- Datadog
- Grafana
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- Distributed Tracing
- Mentoring
- Design Reviews
- Incident Management
- SaaS development
- Performance tuning
- Distributed architecture
- Event design
- Design architecture
- Machine learning frameworks
Personal Information
Title: Senior Staff Engineer
Technical Specializations
Kafka, RabbitMQ, Event-Driven Architecture, Consumer Groups, Kafka Partitioning, DLQs, Retry Patterns, Idempotency, Fault Tolerance, Java, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, REST APIs, Microservices, Hibernate, Spring Data JPA, Google Cloud Platform, GKE, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Secret Manager, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Concurrency, Multithreading, Low Latency Systems, High Throughput APIs, JVM Tuning, Query Optimization, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace, Distributed Tracing, Architecture Ownership, Mentoring, Hiring, Design Reviews, Technical Roadmap, Incident Management
Executive Profile
Senior Staff Engineer with 14+ years of experience architecting enterprise-scale distributed systems, cloud-native platforms and high-performance backend services. Currently leading an engineering team of 8 engineers building mission-critical Workforce Management platforms supporting 60,000+ enterprise customers and more than 10 million employees., 13+ years of software engineering experience, Lead team of 8 engineers, Platform serving 60,000+ enterprise customers and 10M+ employees, 5M+ API requests/day, 10M+ Kafka events/day, 40% API latency reduction, Architect of enterprise Event Connector platform, Technical interviewer, architecture reviewer and production incident leader
Certification
- Software Architecture: From Developer to Architect
- Kubernetes: Package Management with Helm
- Java and Spring Framework Test Dome Top 25 Percent
Accomplishments
- Gold award at UKG for bringing a priming process from 8 hours to under 15 minutes
- Multiple Kudos Awards at UKG for technical excellence.
- Gem of the Quarter – Icreon Communications (2014)
Timeline
Senior Staff Engineer
Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG)
04.2019 - Current
Senior Technical Consultant
IRIS Software
06.2015 - 04.2019
Software Engineer
Icreon Communications
06.2014 - 06.2015
Software Engineer
Thomson Digital
06.2011 - 06.2014
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science Engineering
Kurukshetra University