GOURAV KHANIJOE
Greater Seattle Area,WA
Summary
I help companies cut costs, increase business & revenue towards 10x growth, and scale teams without chaos.
Senior Engineering Leader with 13+ years of experience scaling distributed systems, leading high-performing teams, and driving engineering excellence across organizations. Proven track record of building and growing teams, leading large-scale technical projects, and delivering $$ savings through operational efficiency. Equally comfortable defining long-term technical strategy, leading through influence, and remaining hands-on to ensure execution quality.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Engineering (Technical) Leader
HubSpot
Remote, Greater Seattle Area
07.2023 - Current
- Leading Data Engineering platforms to drive machine learning & AI adoption across the company, with 60+ engineers org, bringing clarity to complex problem spaces.
- Championed efficiency initiatives, achieving 80% pipeline cost reduction ($20M annually), improving AI/Agents adoption, and strengthening operational tooling.
- Partnered with Execs on hiring, mentoring, performance reviews, and technical strategy for the Data Infra org.
- Delivered an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse platform, enabling ML Engineerstrain AI models and Analysts to make data-driven decisions.
- Improved reliability of Vitess/MySQL infra, scaling it 10x to support thousands of organizations in hyper-growth.
Staff (Founding) Software Engineer
Bastion Platforms
Remote, Greater Seattle Area
02.2023 - 07.2023
- Architected secure NFT custody solution, establishing the startup as a trusted custodian. This drove 50% increase in landing customers rentention across the platform.
- Built high-performance off-chain fungible ledger system from scratch. Contributed to building and deploying core infrastructure systems, ensuring scalability and reliability.
Staff Software Engineer
Coinbase Inc
Remote, Greater Seattle Area
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
Software Dev Engineer
AWS Lambda & Amazon Retail
07.2016 - 03.2022
- Designed, implemented and led teams to re-architecture and scale AWS Lambda Control Plane and decouple it from Data Plane services, databases and caches. This helped scale 400+ engineer organization by improving 52% on coding and deployment agility.
- Previously at Amazon India business: built Retail Payments platform systems to provide Instant Bank Discount on using partnered credit cards, 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
- Led, Implemented, Developed, the Warehouse Management Open System (WMOS) for Nike, Estee Lauder and Federal Mogul clients (EMEA) landing 10% increase in NNARR of the company.
System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2013 - 05.2015
- Delivered Fast track policy & claim services website for Barclays Capital landing 10 year contract customers for them.
Education
Bachelors of Tech - Electronics & Communication
Kurukshetra University
IndiaSkills
- Expertise in Databases & Data Platforms: Deep experience with OLTP systems (MySQL), OLAP solutions (Apache Iceberg), and end-to-end data infrastructure platforms
- Generative AI Solutions: Proficient in designing and deploying GenAI applications and intelligent agents using OpenAI and Anthropic models to solve real business problems
- Programming Languages & Paradigms: Strong command of Java and Golang, applying both object-oriented and functional programming principles; skilled at leveraging AI-assisted coding agents for productivity and quality
- Cloud & Database Technologies: Hands-on expertise with AWS (S3, API Gateway, Global Accelerator, Lambda, EC2, RDS, CloudWatch) and database ecosystems including DynamoDB, MongoDB, SQL, and AWS Managed Kafka (Apache Kafka)
- Distributed Systems & Microservices: Proven ability to architect, build, and scale distributed systems, including decomposing monoliths into modular, high-performing microservices
- Architecture & Reliability: In-depth knowledge of caching strategies, load distribution, scaling infrastructure, eliminating single points of failure, and delivering reliable, scalable, and extensible services
- API Development: Experience building long-term, interoperable REST and gRPC APIs (Protobuf), designed for composability and future growth
Accomplishments
- Hired 150+ engineers (interviews) & mentored 80+ engineers throughout the career
- Driven tech alignments, worked with Customers, Executives, Product Managers for project scoping and contributed towards performance reviews
- Led projects with wide scope involving 60+ engineers across various teams and disambiguated problem space.
Timeline
Staff Engineering (Technical) Leader
HubSpot
07.2023 - Current
Staff (Founding) Software Engineer
Bastion Platforms
02.2023 - 07.2023
Staff Software Engineer
Coinbase Inc
03.2022 - 01.2023
Software Dev Engineer
AWS Lambda & Amazon Retail
07.2016 - 03.2022
Software Engineer
Manhattan Associates
05.2015 - 07.2016
System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2013 - 05.2015
Bachelors of Tech - Electronics & Communication
Kurukshetra University