About

Gaurav Raval is an accomplished Software Engineering Leader with over 14 years of experience in Distributed Systems, Web & Mobile Technologies, and Engineering Leadership. He has led high-impact small teams to geographically distributed large teams and has extensive experience in leading software engineering projects ranging from SaaS to enterprise. Gaurav has a full software lifecycle experience for Web Service, Data Platform, and Web Application. Gaurav's technical expertise includes Java, Zookeeper, Spring, Dropwizard, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Elastic Search, Kubernetes, JMeter, Espresso, Selenium, Karate, and more. He is well-versed in infra/delivery tools like AWS, Azure, Jenkins, Docker, and Open STF. Gaurav has published research papers in Machine Learning and VoIP Multilayer Security. He is currently working as an Engineering Manager at noon, where he is enabling millions of students to have a unique social learning experience, scaling tech stack and teams, and improving engineering productivity at scale. In his past roles, Gaurav has worked as an Enterprise Architect at Blue Yonder, leading data engineering efforts to bring reliability at scale in Single Source Of Truth (SSOT) Software as a Service (SaaS) product, which will eventually power all AI/ML needs in an organization. He has also worked as a Software Development Engineer IV at Flipkart, where he led engineering efforts in building and maintaining cutting-edge cloud platform entities. Gaurav holds a Master of Engineering degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Technology from North Maharashtra University. He has a relevant experience of 14.87 years and is proficient in a wide range of tech stacks, including Senior Software Engineer, AWS, Kafka, Data Engineering, Spring, Jenkins, Research Scientist, Golang, ML, Mobile, Selenium, Docker, Redis, Cassandra, infra, Kubernetes, Data Scientist, Elastic Search, Spring Boot, DevOps, Search, Azure, AI, test, MySQL, Software Engineer, qa, ui, HDFS, Ansible, and SDET.