About

Gaurav Deshpande is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer with over 8 years of relevant experience in software engineering, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, scaling, and product engineering. He is passionate about helping tech startups turn their ideas into scalable services and is actively seeking innovative and challenging software engineering opportunities in software and R&D teams across domestic as well as international markets. Gaurav has a strong technical background and is proficient in several programming languages, including Java, J2EE/Java EE, Python, and Go. He is also well-versed in various front-end and web technologies, such as Vue, JavaScript, HTML 5, JSON, XML, Protocol buffers, Xpath, and XSLT. Additionally, he has extensive experience working with REST and gRPC APIs, as well as monolithic and microservices architectures. In terms of frameworks, Gaurav is skilled in using Spring, Spring boot, Guice, Guava, Log4j2, Disruptor, and AspectJ. He is also proficient in various operating systems, databases, IDEs, build tools, deployment tools, APM tools, app servers, version control systems, unit testing frameworks, messaging platforms, and cloud technologies. Gaurav has worked with several companies in the past, including eq technologic and Cognizant, where he served as a Senior Software Engineer and Programmer Analyst, respectively. He has also worked on various projects, such as eQube-MI product engineering and built platform libraries and a derivatives trade reporting platform for RBC - Capital Markets division. Gaurav holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Computer Engineering from Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Pune. He has also completed coursework at Free Code Camp. In his spare time, Gaurav enjoys contributing to open-source projects, researching new technologies, and solving complex problems. He is interested in data structures, object-oriented programming, functional programming, aspect-oriented programming, design patterns, and algorithms. Overall, Gaurav is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a strong technical background and a passion for helping tech startups turn their ideas into scalable services.