Gaurav Kabra

About Gaurav Kabra

I\'m a Senior Software Engineer focused on building infrastructure and reliable backend platforms in an AI-native way – using Claude (skills, plugins, hooks, commands, memory), Cursor, MCP and internal tools to ship faster and safer at scale. I design distributed control planes and self-healing systems that abstract complexity away from application and AI teams.At LinkedIn, I work in the Foundational Infrastructure Components (FIC) team – a Ring‑0 team – delivering Helix and ZooKeeper to make clusters not just managed, but autonomous. This includes cluster-wide operations via ACM, high-throughput job scheduling with the Helix Task Framework, and platform systems like InLogs (log aggregation) and LockIn (distributed locks) that AI workloads and agents can safely rely on. I also contributed to LinkedIn\'s next-gen IaC platform, Nova, including a drift-remediation engine that automatically patches and reconciles configuration for dozens of partner teams, and an admin utility suite used for safe rollbacks, orphan cleanup, and enforcement against non-IaC paths.Previously at Salesforce Data Cloud, I worked on GenAI foundations: retrieval engines and semantic search over unstructured data using embeddings and Milvus DB, with an architecture designed to support RAG and trusted LLM-grounded responses on top of hyperscale customer data. Before that, I built backend systems, APIs, OCR and sentiment analysis features across Intelligent Document Reader and Sentiment Insights, integrating AWS Textract/Comprehend with Salesforce\'s platform.Earlier, I explored ML for log health prediction as an intern at Fidelity.What I\'m strongest at- Backend Engineering: API design, data systems, streaming, distributed systems, concurrency and performance in Java- AI/ML Integration: semantic search and RAG pipelines over large, heterogeneous data; vector DBs (Milvus); LLM-powered features grounded in enterprise data- Agentic & Tools: MCP and agentic engineering patterns, plus practical use of tools like Claude, Cursor, Grok, NotebookLM and ChatGPT to build real developer workflows.B.Tech CSE from NIT Jaipur (CGPA 9.57).Outside my day job, I\'m a Top 1% Topmate mentor (5/5 rated), where I run focused 1:1s on AI, DSA, system design and career strategy.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

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   Jun 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Working in Foundational Infrastructure Components (FIC) team, an AI-Native and Ring-0 team, delivering Helix and Zookeeper, making clusters not only managed but self-healing. Helix is an open-source distributed cluster management framework for partitioned, replicated resources and Zookeeper is a distributed, open-source coordination service. Helix Task Framework is a high-throughput workflow engine for scheduling stateful and stateless jobs. Application Cluster Manager (ACM) is the service for automating management of cluster-wide operations such as disruptions, scaling and hardware swaps. Other associated services involve InLogs (logs aggregation).

Education

• Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur

  B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering

  2016 — 2020