About

Gautam Vij is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience in the health, wellness, and fitness industry. He is currently working as a Staff Engineer at Drishti, where he has demonstrated his expertise in Java, Python, Big Data, and AWS. Gautam holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi. In his previous role as a Senior Software Engineer at Practo, Gautam was responsible for supporting real-time and batch ingestion from bin-logs, client and server applications with SDK, and egress support for Redshift, S3, and SNS. He led the design and implementation of real-time re-marketing using Data Pipeline and Clevertap, reducing 20% drop-off. Gautam also led Practo's wide adoption of data platform and event-driven architecture for inter-service communication. Gautam's technical skills include software engineering, AWS, Big Data, Python, Java, Apache Airflow, and ETL. He has also hosted and scaled centralized logging solutions using Graylog and Logstash, supporting ingestion up to 1 billion logs per day from all services. Gautam has contributed to open source by creating a generic data replication stack using Maxwell and fixing Maxwell’s memory leaks with Kinesis. Overall, Gautam is a strong engineering professional with a passion for leveraging technology to solve complex problems. He is a quick learner and an excellent team player, always striving to deliver high-quality work.