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Gaurav Agarwal is a highly skilled Software Development Engineer II at Amazon with over 5 years of relevant experience in the field. He is a certified interviewer and has taken more than 250 interviews for Software Engineer positions at Amazon. He is also a Bar Raiser, responsible for maintaining a high hiring bar at the company. Gaurav is an expert in building highly scalable distributed systems from scratch and has 3+ years of experience in backend engineering. He has expertise in building microservices for millions of users and is skilled in Java and Python. He is experienced in system design and full stack development. Gaurav has worked with big tech companies and has experience ranging from freelancing to working with Amazon. Currently, he works as a Software Development Engineer 2 at Amazon and is a part of the India Gift Cards Team under Amazon Pay. Gaurav has also worked as a Software Engineer Intern at Amazon, where he worked in the Amazon FinTech team handling Amazon Payee services. He integrated custom Sequence-Based ID Generator for a large scale financial application running on Hibernate ORM and Spring. He also added In-memory caching of data to avoid hard-coding the data in the codebase for a Spring application. Gaurav completed his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kota in 2018. He is proficient in AWS, Backend, Microservices, Spring, Sentiment Analysis, Word2Vec, Python, Neural Networks, and other relevant technologies. Gaurav is open to helping others with interview guidance and referrals. For quicker replies, he can be contacted on his Instagram handle @gauraaga.