About

Gaurav Jain is a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer with over 9 years of experience in designing, implementing, and operating cloud-native, petabyte-scale log search and analytics offerings. He is currently working at Sumo Logic, where he leads the development of the company's next-generation log analytics tier solution for high-volume, infrequently accessed data. Gaurav has extensive experience in hiring for junior and senior engineering roles, as well as mentoring new hires. He is passionate about promoting fairness in the workplace and strives to do his part to create a level playing field for everyone. During his time at Sumo Logic, Gaurav has held several key roles, including Senior Software Engineer - II and Senior Software Engineer - I. In these roles, he was responsible for implementing critical hard dependencies in the log ingestion and query path handling, resulting in multi-million dollar cost savings and a marked improvement in reliability. He also conceptualized and evangelized a systematic methodology for alerting and monitoring, significantly reducing on-call pain and improving overall reliability and scalability. Gaurav holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from ETH Zürich and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He is highly skilled in software engineering, search, AWS, and other relevant technologies. Overall, Gaurav is a highly accomplished and experienced software engineer with a strong track record of success in designing and implementing large-scale log search and analytics solutions. He is a natural leader and mentor who is passionate about promoting fairness and creating a positive workplace culture.