Gaurav Kabra

India

Gaurav Kabra

Hello :)  I'm an India-based software engineer focused on data platforms, distributed systems, and building full-stack products that ship cleanly and scale reliably.

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Experience

  • Working with the Data Platform team on Spark, Kafka Connect, and Airflow-based ingestion pipelines.
    Led end-to-end migration of SOON/SONAS from monorepo to microservice with zero downtime and 80%+ test coverage. Upgraded onboarding to fully self-serve, eliminating dependency on Data Platform engineers.
    Built n8n-based AI workflows for on-call triage and ask-channel queries — reduced issue discovery time by 40%, independently answered 25% of customer queries. Integrated with Slack and a vector database.
    Developed MCPs for LLM access to SONAS configs and Looker dashboards. Prototyped automated onboarding and CDC migration agents using AWS Bedrock AgentCore.
  • Worked with the Catalog team on improving customer and restaurant partner experience. Ran multiple A/B experiments to improve retention and menu-to-cart conversion.
    Built full-stack Photo Shoot scheduling for restaurant partners with async payment gateway integration and idempotency guarantees. Stack: Go, gRPC, Kafka, React.
  • Revamped ReactJS UI for internal tool (SONAS) to improve accessibility and directly allow other teams to add data pipelines for their data. Made API endpoints in Go to support the UI and perform pipeline actions like creating and updating triggers
  • Sole full stack developer. Implemented multiple iterations of the website with NextJS to showcase the product.
    Made mediation and authentication APIs for the micro-investing application using Django.

About

Summary

I'm an India-based software engineer, early in my career, experienced with large-scale data processing using Spark, Kafka Connect, and Airflow. Highly adaptive, quick to onboard unfamiliar systems, and focused on bridging skill gaps wherever a team needs depth, speed, and reliable execution.

Skills

Languages · C++, Python, Go, SQL, JavaScript

Frameworks · Spark, Airflow, gRPC, React, Django, Kafka Connect

Tools · Git, Databricks, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Education

Bachelors in Technology - CS and AI, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow

Jun '21 – Aug '25 · Lucknow, India

Senior Secondary Education, FIITJEE Junior College

Jun '19 – Jun '21 · Hyderabad, India

Secondary Education, Delhi Public School, Secunderabad

Jun '11 – Jun '19 · Hyderabad, India

Achievements

Competitive Programming

  • ICPC India Regionalist in 2023 and 2024.
  • 21st rank in Kanpur Regionals 2023.
  • Codeforces rating 1938 (Candidate Master, 197th in India).
  • CodeChef rating 2111 (5 star, 342nd in India).

Hackathons

  • Runner-up at FLOW Hackathon with SimpliFlow, won $6000.
  • Track winner at ETHIndia 2023 for Fanatix, won over $2800.
  • Track winner at MLH HackThePlan (web3vents) and MLH OpenHacks (Finno).