Building distributed systems
with precision & purpose
I'm Gaurav Agarwal, a passionate developer focused on creating intuitive and impactful distributed systems that solve real-world problems with elegant solutions.
About Me
Gaurav Agarwal
I am a generalist software engineer who has worked across the stack and is equally comfortable with scaling up services as well as creating beautiful 2D and 3D visualizations.
I'm a full-stack developer who started his career in 2012 gaining experience building robust web applications and digital experiences that prioritize user needs and business objectives.
My approach to development is centered around creating clean, maintainable code that scales well and provides intuitive user experiences. I believe in the power of simplicity and the importance of attention to detail.
When I'm not coding, you'll find me hiking in nature, exploring music, or diving into a good book about technology and innovation.
What drives me
- Building products that make a positive impact
- Solving complex problems with elegant solutions
- Continuous learning and sharing knowledge
Work Experience
Director of Engineering
CoderMana Technologies Pvt Ltd
Technical consulting for clients across the world, corporate trainings and product development
Key Achievements
- Performance optimizations at the DB and backend level on existing and new code being built
- Moved from a manually managed infra to a IaC based solution while meeting SLAs to reduce downtime
- Managing and transforming teams into a agile process
- Delivered world-class training on multiple technologies to varied audiences
Roll
Member of the core technical team. Led the backend and SRE team. Worked closely with stake holders to build and deploy new features.
Technologies
CB App, MantaSolutions
Building graphQL based APIs to power the frontend. Working closely with stakeholders for feature development. Managing and transforming the team to a agile process.
Technologies
Trainings
Delivered world-class training on Go, Rust, Elixir, C++, Data Engineering, Distributed Systems Design, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloud - AWS, GCP & Azure, Ruby, Python, Java, Cilium, and more for multiple clients all over Asia, America, Europe, Africa & Australia.
Technologies
Products
Building SaaS products in the space of near-realtime monitoring, data ingestion and content publishing.
Technologies
Founder & Principal Consultant
Agarwal Consulting
Technical consulting for clients across the world & corporate trainings
Key Achievements
- Led the re-architecture of infrastructure and moved away from Heroku to AWS while containerizing the micro-services
- Integrating an oauth 2 server implementation to allow third-party developers to interact and build on top of backend APIs
Roll
Member of the core technical team. Led the re-architecture of infrastructure and moving away from Heroku to AWS. Re-designed the existing application to be cloud-native running on AWS managed Kubernetes service. Setting up monitoring systems using EFK stack. Building and deploying new features. Integrating an oauth 2 server implementation to allow third-party developers to interact and build on top of our backend APIs.
Technologies
Digisense, Autosense
Building a data processing pipeline to ingest 10K packets/s from Pubsub into Google BigQuery and Google BigTable. Designed and architected the pipeline on GCP using Dataflow, which is built on top of Apache Beam. Designing the codebase easy to configure and scale.
Technologies
Oshi
Building a world-class react app to help patients record their own health metrics and keep a track of their diets and routine. Designed, built and iterated over several features of the app
Technologies
Trainings
Delivered world-class training on Go, Docker, Kubernetes, Ruby, Python & Java for multiple clients across India, US & Singapore.
Technologies
Lead Technical Consultant
Tarka Labs
Working across multiple domains from teleinformatics to mining to enterprise asset management to manufacturing.
Key Achievements
- Leading a team of developers to deliver consistently and working closely with clients and their development teams to ensure timely delivery
- Solving hard technical problems in a fast-changing landscape
- Working across the stack - including hardware, mobile and web apps
HRIS, Auzmor
Mentoring and leading a team on TypeScript/React. Designing the Web app from the ground up to be bug-free and scalable code-wise. Building entire backend using Ruby on Rails. Architecting deployment on GCP using Docker containers onto a Kubernetes cluster.
Technologies
Datacloud
Using OpenCV to stitch images taken inside of a mine. Consuming sensor data and visualizing the regions where the ores are concentrated. Creating, running and managing containers using Docker on Azure instances. Designed and built apps using Vue.js and 3D visualisations using VTK.js. Built ReSTful APIs using Go programming language.
Technologies
Fankave
Building React.js based visualisations using live data from API. Designed and iterated on 2D visualisations using D3.js and pure SVG components.
Technologies
Smart Crib
Leading the IoT-based proof of concept product. Designed circuits using KiCAD, interfaced with MFRC-522 nfc reader & ble bluetooth devices using python. Built a self-updating dashboard using Node.js running on Raspberry Pi.
Technologies
EAM360 Application
Leading the iOS team using Swift programming language. Ensured the mobile app is offline accessible. Setting up the CI/CD pipelines using Fastlane, Jenkins and CircleCI for both Android and iOS. Built FaaS apps using Go, deployed on AWS lambda using serverless.js.
Technologies
Lead Technical Developer
Tarka Labs
Led teams and built scalable web applications
Key Achievements
- Built realtime map based dashboards with smooth frame rates
- Built concurrent and fault-tolerant scrapers using elixir and OTP framework
Zephyr, Mod.us
Been a part of this long running project since the beginning. Later went on to lead a remote distributed team. Built realtime apps using websockets, React.js. Used immstruct and immutable.js for state management. Used RxJS to reduce thrashing and jank in the app. Built interactive visualisations using Google maps and SVG + React.js based components.
Technologies
Betting LeadIn
Worked on building a app using Elm on the frontend and used Elixir and Phoenix for the backend.
Technologies
Senior Technical Consultant
Tarka Labs
Worked on interactive dashboards and legacy RoR applications
Key Achievements
- Optimised and tuned postgreSQL workload and queries
- Built highly interactive 3D visual apps
- Stabilized legacy systems, decreasing downtime and improved developer experience
DMP, Mod.us
Developing new features on their existing vehicle tracking system built using Ruby on Rails.
Technologies
Lifelogger
Built interactive app using Elm. This was a highly interactive 3D visual app using reddit API as proof of concept. Deployed on heroku.
Technologies
Software Engineer
BrowserStack
Worked on Automate product and Internal tools
Key Achievements
- Managing internal servers to the satisfaction of internal stake holders
- Analyzing and cleaning up billing data
- Building dashboards for internal metrics
- Stabilizing systems dealing with payments and customer-facing near real-time dashboard for automation logs
Automate
I have been the main rails developer on the Automate team, which is the product which allows you to run Selenium/JS Tests across multiple Browsers/OS combination. Here I have been working hard to stabilise their application, over the course of 2 months.
Technologies
Infrastructure
Managing their internal test environments using a combination of capistrano, bash and adhoc scripts. Error recovery and ran diagnostics to bring failing systems up and running.
Technologies
Zombie
Developing an internal usage dashboard, for understanding usage patterns across multiple metrics and dimensions. Fast iteration and feedback cycle. Designed the raw SQL queries and built a custom query builder to run on MySQL
Technologies
Consultant
ThoughtWorks
Worked with Senior Developers - practising agile, TDD, pair programming and extreme programming methodologies.
Key Achievements
- Learnt a lot of coding techniques, including refactoring and writing clean readable code
- Built an extensive set of visualizations, including map based ones, to chart sales distribution across a country
Skills & Expertise
Go
Fast, concurrent systems programming
Rust
Memory-safe, high-performance language
Elixir
Scalable, fault-tolerant functional programming
Ruby
Elegant, dynamic scripting language
Erlang
Distributed, fault-tolerant systems
JavaScript
Web's core scripting language
Python
Versatile, readable programming language
HTML5
Markup for modern web pages
CSS3
Styling for responsive web design
Bash
Scripting for Linux and automation
Swift
Apple's modern app development language
Elm
Functional language for web UI
TypeScript
Typed JavaScript for large apps
Java
Enterprise-grade, cross-platform language
Gorilla
Go web toolkit for robust APIs
Rails
Ruby web framework for rapid development
Sinatra
Lightweight Ruby web framework
Phoenix
Elixir web framework for real-time apps
React
Declarative UI library for web apps
Vue
Progressive JavaScript framework for UI
Lodash
Utility library for JavaScript
Bootstrap
CSS framework for responsive design
Webpack
JavaScript bundler and module loader
Babel
JavaScript compiler for modern features
Node.js
JavaScript runtime for server-side apps
Less
CSS preprocessor for maintainable styles
SASS
CSS extension with variables & nesting
D3.js
Data visualization library for web
VTK.js
3D visualization library for the web
Kafka
Distributed event streaming platform
Postgres
Advanced open-source relational database
MySQL
Popular open-source relational database
Redis
In-memory key-value data store
Sqlite
Lightweight embedded SQL database
Apache Beam
Unified batch and stream processing
Docker
Containerization platform for applications
Kubernetes
Container orchestration for scalability
Nginx
High-performance web server
Git
Version control for source code
Fastlane
Automates mobile app deployments
CircleCI
Continuous integration and deployment
Jenkins
Automation server for CI/CD
Terraform
Infrastructure as code tool
Elasticsearch
Search and analytics engine
Fluentd
Log collection and aggregation
Kibana
Data visualization for Elasticsearch
DataDog
Cloud monitoring and security platform
Linux
Open-source operating system
Debian
Stable Linux distribution
Raspberry Pi
Single-board computer for projects
Ubuntu
User-friendly Linux distribution
iOS
Apple's mobile operating system
AWS
Cloud computing by Amazon
Google Cloud Platform
Google's cloud computing services
Azure
Microsoft's cloud computing platform
Heroku
PaaS for deploying apps
Digital Ocean
Cloud computing for developers
Education & Certifications
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology
Anna University, Chennai
Specialized in Data Warehousing, Mining and Computer Networking
Highlights
- GPA: 7.71
- Won Intra department Paper Presentation Competitions
State Board
Doveton Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Computer Science
Highlights
- Marks: 934
- Taken part in Endurance Running
Get In Touch
Have a project in mind or want to discuss potential opportunities? I'd love to hear from you.