GOURAV KHANIJOE
Bothell
Summary
Results-driven software engineer with over 10 years of experience in both product development and infrastructure design. Proven expertise in building and scaling distributed systems. Seeking a highly challenging work environment where I can leverage my technical skills and experience to tackle complex problems. Passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology and delivering innovative solutions.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Founding Staff Software Engineer
Bastion Platforms
02.2023 - Current
- Architected secure NFT custody solution, establishing the startup as a trusted custodian.
- Built high-performance off-chain fungible ledger system from scratch.
- Contributed to building and deploying core infrastructure systems, ensuring scalability and reliability.
- Engaged in industry thought leadership, establishing startup as trusted authority.
Staff Software Engineer
Coinbase Inc
03.2022 - 01.2023
- Drove down AWS infrastructure costs by 50% summing $15M savings on annual basis by optimizing and rightsizing services architecture and established the API development processes and guidelines for entire company
- Led and delivered ‘Middle Office as a Service’ & ‘Qualified Custodian wallet’ features to enable Coinbase Prime
- Integration with Blackrock and other hedge fund customers, which opened door for $5B Crypto asset custody
- Contributed towards monolithic custody architecture breakdown in multiple microservices, including one orchestrating crypto trading transfers and settlement, which increased performance and reduced response time by 90%.
Software Dev Engineer
AWS Lambda
03.2019 - 03.2022
- Designed, implemented and led teams to re-architecture AWS Lambda Control Plane and decouple it from Data
- Plane services by introducing data propagation mechanism called Distribution Plane, to increase availability by decoupling of databases and caching layers
- Implemented and led efforts towards splitting monolithic Control Plane Service into multiple domain related services, to help scale 400+ engineer organization by improving 52% on coding and deployment agility.
Software Dev Engineer
Amazon Inc
07.2016 - 03.2019
- Designed, implemented and led team to build Retail Payments platform systems to provide affordable payment options by providing Instant Bank Discount on using partnered credit cards
- Launched No Cost Instalments, Coupons features on same platform, leading to 10x increase in customer purchase rate & profits and 56x increase in daily active users (DAU).
Software Engineer
Manhattan Associates
05.2015 - 07.2016
- Developed the Warehouse Management Open System (WMOS) as part of Supply Chain Management Product for Nike, Estee Lauder and Federal Mogul clients (EMEA)
- Optimized various functional units of inbound and outbound for scale, including Dock management, put away, pulling, picking by developing user friendly interfaces.
System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2013 - 05.2015
- Delivered Fast track policy & claim services website for Barclays Capital using Adobe Experience Manager
Education
Bachelors of Tech - Electronics & Communication
Kurukshetra University
Skills
- Proficient in languages of development like Java, Golang with Object Oriented and Functional paradigms
- Expertise in Cloud Computing, specialization with AWS provider technologies like Amazon S3, API Gateway, Accelerator, Lambda, EC2, RDS, CloudWatch as well as database technologies (DynamoDB, MongoDB, SQL)
- Forte of building distributed systems using Microservices architecture and breaking monolith systems into manageable services
- Deep knowledge of architecture fundamentals like caching, load distribution, infrastructure scaling, overcoming single point of failures and building Reliable, Scalable and Extendable services
- Experience building REST and gRPC APIs (Profobuf) with long term vision and interoperability/composability
Accomplishments
- Hired 100+ engineers (interviews) & mentored 30+ engineers throughout the career
- Driven tech alignments, worked with Engineering/Product Managers for project scoping and contributed towards performance reviews
- Led projects with wide scope involving 50+ engineers across various teams and disambiguated problem space
- Led multiple campaigns for Eng and Operational Efficiency like Cost optimizations, API development reviews Bar Raiser.
Timeline
Founding Staff Software Engineer
Bastion Platforms
02.2023 - Current
Staff Software Engineer
Coinbase Inc
03.2022 - 01.2023
Software Dev Engineer
AWS Lambda
03.2019 - 03.2022
Software Dev Engineer
Amazon Inc
07.2016 - 03.2019
Software Engineer
Manhattan Associates
05.2015 - 07.2016
System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2013 - 05.2015
Bachelors of Tech - Electronics & Communication
Kurukshetra University
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