I am Gaurav.

I am a Software Engineer and love to read and write about everything related to software. I am currently working as an engineer in the Database Engine team at Stripe. I have previously worked in companies like VMware, Rippling and Lavelle Networks.

Over a span of 10 fruitful years, I have worked as an individual contributor, technical lead and engineering manager in different types of globalized teams. I work with early age startups primarily on performance engineering and building scalable infrastructure.

My core belief is to never limit myself to an area of work and work on whatever interests me. I believe life is too unpredictable and the only way to live life is to do whatever you enjoy and be flexible and balanced enough to deal with the ups and downs of life.

I have worked on building Software defined networking solutions managing and monitoring 10s of thousands of edge routers across India, project management software with millions of customers, built kubernetes platform for developers, worked on and scale one of the largest database clusters in the world.