About

Gaurav Waghmare is a Product Engineer at Gojek and an alumnus of IIT-Roorkee. He has a passion for solving complex problems and is not limited to just the technical aspects of a project. With extensive experience in building and maintaining the backend of web applications, Gaurav's warhorse is Python, which he uses to achieve amazing results. He is also proficient in the Django framework, which enables him to take a project from scratch to production in a short time. Gaurav has worked with PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ, and he is always eager to learn new technologies. Gaurav's curiosity is what sets him apart, and he is always looking for a problem to solve. He enjoys asking questions and understanding the root cause of a problem. He is open to challenging opportunities and is always ready to take on new projects. Gaurav has worked with several companies in the past, including Belong and Tesco. At Belong, he designed and built the candidate application flow using Celery, implemented in Python using Django. He also articulated and built functionalities for vendor management and calendar integrations using 3rd party services into the product. At Tesco, he worked with the Clubcard Rewards team, handling order creation and delivery, stock management using .NET framework and SQL Server database. He redesigned the database schema and did query optimizations to improve API performance by as much as 75% in particular cases. He also built CI/CD pipelines using open-source tool Chef. Gaurav's education history includes a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electrical Engineering from IIT-Roorkee. He also attended Sri Sankara Vidyalaya and Delhi Public School - Korba. Gaurav's technical skills include software engineering, AWS, Python, SQL, Django, RabbitMQ, NoSQL, backend, web, and CI/CD. With 6.20 years of relevant experience, Gaurav is a skilled engineer with a passion for solving complex problems and a willingness to take on new challenges.