About

Gautam Prajapati is a highly skilled software engineer with 4.78 years of experience in the industry. He is currently working as a Software Engineer II at Airbnb in the Payments & Compliance Org. Gautam has extensive experience working with Python-based microservices deployed on a Kubernetes cluster at a scale of a million requests per minute. Gautam has contributed to several open-source organizations like Celery, LibreOffice, Mozilla, and OpenMRS in the past. Currently, he is building an official Kubernetes operator for Celery, the most popular distributed task queue framework in the Python ecosystem. Previously, Gautam has worked as a Software Development Engineer II at Grofers, India's online grocery unicorn, where he was the tech lead for the Merchandising(Catalog) team. He led a team of 4 engineers to re-write and deprecate a 6-year-old monolith microservice running 30K+ of python 2 code. Gautam worked with modern FastAPI framework and non-blocking IO to reduce P99 latency by a staggering 80% and average by 60%. He also streamlined the navigation of the ever-increasing product inventory by building filters feature using Elasticsearch aggregation capabilities. Gautam has also worked as a Software Development Engineer at Grofers, where he owned the core services of Grofers' checkout system, including shopping cart, delivery ETA, and orders client. He developed an edit order feature, which was the first e-commerce company in India to offer this feature, resulting in 40% extra delivery capacity during the nationwide lockdown. Gautam built a one-of-a-kind loyalty program service in the industry supporting myriad of reward types and games using domain-driven design concepts. The first-month launch brought $6M in revenue and 1M distinct user app visits. Gautam holds a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree in Computer Software Engineering from Delhi Technological University (DTU) and has completed an Android Developer Nanodegree from Udacity. He also has a background in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics from DAV Centenary Public School and Tagore Public School. Gautam's technical skills include Software Engineering, Python, Kubernetes, Microservices, Elastic Search, Senior Software Engineer, Django, and Flask. He is a talented engineer with a passion for building scalable and efficient systems.