Gaurav Arya

About Gaurav Arya

I build systems that handle real scale — and the teams that keep them running.For the last 8+ years, I\'ve designed platforms processing 10M+ records a day, scaled infrastructure for peak traffic events with zero downtime, and grown from writing my first production Java service to leading a pod of 6 engineers across 5 repositories and 200K+ lines of code. What I\'ve learned about leading teams.The hardest engineering problems aren\'t usually technical. They\'re about getting smart people aligned on what matters and creating an environment where they want to do their best work.Everyone brings a different strength — some are natural explorers who thrive on POCs, some are great cross-team coordinators, some are fast builders, some are deep design thinkers. A big part of my job is recognizing that and putting people where they\'ll grow, not just where there\'s a gap to fill. How I work• I build alongside Product — discussing future vision and customer needs — so what we ship is extensible, not just functional• Small inefficiencies bother me: noisy alerting, clunky sprint processes, tech debt quietly eating velocity — I\'ll carve out time to fix it. Those small things compound.• 190+ technical interviews conducted. I take hiring seriously. What I build withJava · Spring Boot · Distributed Systems — Kafka, Redis, MySQL, AWSI\'ve architected multi-tenant SaaS platforms from scratch, introduced org-wide code quality tooling across 3M+ lines of code, and doubled throughput while pushing success rates past 99.93%. What I\'m exploringRecently, I\'ve been getting my hands dirty with applied AI — an enterprise voice platform handling 100K+ calls/day (LiveKit, LLM pipelines), and a multi-agent system using LangGraph/LangChain. Not resume padding. I genuinely think engineers who understand both reliable backend systems and AI capabilities will matter a lot in the next few years.If you\'re building something ambitious and need someone who can own the architecture, grow the team, and ship — I\'d enjoy the conversation.

Experience

1. Founding Engineering Lead

   Cherrymind Innovations Pvt. Ltd

   Jan 2026 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   Led end-to-end solutioning and delivery for an enterprise AI voice calling SaaS — from evaluating telecom integrations and AI frameworks (LiveKit, LLM pipelines) through architecture, build, and production launch- Architected and delivered the production system, scaling to 100K+ calls per day within a 3-month engagement- Led a team of 4 junior engineers through the full design-to-deployment lifecycle, including mentoring on system design trade-offs- Conducted feasibility analysis across telecom providers and AI tooling, defining the technical roadmap that shaped the product\'s go-to-market

Education

• The NorthCap University

  Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science

  2013 — 2017