About

Gaurav Makhija is a seasoned Senior Director of Technology at magicpin (Samast Technologies) with over 17 years of experience in the tech industry. He is passionate about creating high-quality, robust, and scalable products based on real and mined data, as well as machine-learned or editorial forms. Gaurav is a problem solver at heart and enjoys applying his skills to tackle complex challenges. In his current role at magicpin, Gaurav is responsible for leading the technology team and ensuring the development of innovative products. He has a wealth of experience in building and maintaining data pipelines to enrich business listings locations to support programmatic ad projects using data mining, curation, and machine learning. He is proficient in using pig udf's, Unix, Hive, supervised machine learning using Python's scikit-learn, and TensorFlow for geometrical solutions, combined with a decent geo domain knowledge expertise. Prior to his current role, Gaurav served as a Senior Backend Engineer at Yahoo Local Search and Yahoo Maps Platform. In these roles, he built and maintained services to support maps search, geocoding, routing, traffic, map tiles, and data mining usage. He also gained experience in A/B testing on the eBay website, writing algorithms to divide the site traffic proportionately, and developing SOAP services for the same platform. Gaurav's tech stack includes backend development, software engineering, search, testing, Scikit, ML, TensorFlow, Hadoop, frontend development, Python, Java, and Apache Hive. He holds a B.E in Computer Science from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University and completed his schooling at Springdales School New Delhi. Overall, Gaurav is an accomplished technology expert with a proven track record of delivering high-quality products and solving complex problems. He is a valuable asset to any organization and is always looking for new challenges to tackle.