About

Gaurav Singh is a Senior Software Engineer at Oracle cloud and Infra, with over 6 years of relevant experience in designing and implementing features in distributed systems. He has previously worked at Amazon and Samsung R&D, where he solved systematic bottlenecks and problems in the distributed systems space. Gaurav is passionate about problem-solving, and primarily codes in JAVA and C++. Gaurav has participated in several timed programming contests related to data structure and algorithms, and is a sports/competitive programmer. He has also showcased his coding skills on platforms such as Codechef and Hackerrank. At Oracle, Gaurav is working on a distributed job scheduler system based on Kubernetes and Docker, which processes containerized applications and supports both on-demand and cron jobs. He has designed and implemented multicontainer execution support in the services covering automated tests and metrics, and has led a team of 2 developers. Gaurav has also researched and implemented work items required in terms of application and infra changes to build the service in a new region. He has worked on fixing systematic bottlenecks and increasing operational maturity of the service. The tech stack used by Gaurav includes Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform. In the past, Gaurav has worked as a Mentor at Scaler Academy and a Software Developer at Amazon. At Amazon, he worked on tier 1 payments services related to payment selection page and processing of MFA payment methods. He designed and built a recommendation service for card payment methods, which used an ML model to generate the score. Gaurav also set up an optimized data pipeline for the recommendation service to provide input to the ML model on a real-time basis. He is well-versed in SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, AWS step function (for orchestration), AWS Lambda, S3, EC2, Java, and Scala. Gaurav completed his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Engineering from Rajasthan Technical University in 2017. He is a software engineer, infra, and Kubernetes expert, with skills in Android, Java, Docker, ML, AWS, designer, and UI.