About

Gaurav Bhardwaj is a Senior Team Lead at John Deere, where he is building the most innovative MLOPS product. With 8 years of experience in the software development industry, he has a strong background in RESTful API development, web development, and SQL/NoSQL database development, as well as experience standing up data ingestion jobs and developing and deploying highly scalable, pluggable, and containerized solutions to cloud platforms. Gaurav is proficient in a wide range of languages and frameworks, including Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, REST, Java, Jmeter, Flask, JavaScript, Ansible, Aurilia.js, Node.js, npm, Bottle, RabbitMQ, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and logstash. He also has experience working with various databases such as PostgreSQL, mongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, GraphDB(Janus), and Cassandra. Gaurav is skilled in using tools like Git, VMware, Docker, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, Burp suite, VeraCode, and operating systems such as Linux, Unix, Windows, RHEL, and ESX. He has also worked with cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, and Azure. Gaurav's key strengths include his 8 years of software industry experience, his ability to design Python/Java-based object-oriented scalable systems, and his expertise in designing, testing, and deploying RESTful APIs. He has sound knowledge of computer science concepts such as algorithms and data structure, operating systems, distributed systems, networking, and design patterns. Gaurav is a quick learner and adapts easily to new tools and technologies. Prior to joining John Deere, Gaurav worked as a Senior Developer at PwC, where he designed and developed highly scalable RESTful APIs for Terrain Insights using Django and DRF. He also integrated the same with other client-facing applications and UI dashboards, developed and deployed multiple containerized modules to GCP using Python and Django for SecureTerrain, and designed and implemented database schemas as per client requirements. Gaurav has also worked as an Engineering Intern at Violin Memory, where he worked across teams to help the company keep up with its dynamic internal team needs like research and development on security vulnerabilities, REST API development and enhancements, automation, Python scripting, utility development, and Django app development. Gaurav holds a Master's Degree in Software Engineering from San Jose State University and a Bachelor of Engineering (