Gaurav Shukla

About Gaurav Shukla

I design and build \"large-scale data and AI platforms\" that power real-time analytics and intelligent decision-making.With 13+ years of experience, I specialize in \"data architecture, distributed systems, and GenAI-driven platforms\", working across **multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and private cloud (OpenStack)** environments.#What I’ve built* Streaming architecture using **Kafka + Spark Lakehouse systems using **Iceberg, Parquet, data query platform (RAG)** enabling natural language analytics* Enterprise IAM platform on **OpenStack-based private cloud**#Impact delivered2x performance improvement** over traditional compute systems~15% infrastructure cost reduction**Designed systems outperforming managed services (e.g, Dataproc)#What I do today* Architect **data platforms and real-time Design **AI/GenAI systems integrated with data Build **cloud-native and hybrid cloud Lead teams and drive **end-to-end architecture decisions**#Core TechnologiesKafka | Spark | Spark Streaming | Iceberg | Airflow | Kubernetes | Terraform | OpenStack | AWS | GCP | Azure | GenAI | RAGI’m interested in solving problems around:* Data Platform Architecture* AI / GenAI Systems* Large-scale Distributed SystemsIf you\'re working on \"scaling data systems or building AI-driven platforms\", feel free to connect.

Experience

1. Senior Lead Software Engineer

   Impetus

   Dec 2024 — Present

Education

• Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya

  B.E.(C.S) / 2011, Computer Science

  2007 — 2011

Skills

• Java
• Hadoop
• Object Oriented Programming
• Servlets
• Mysql
• Nosql
• Big Data Analytics
• Javaserver Pages (Jsp)
• Android
• Hive
• Junit
• Mapreduce
• Apache Spark
• Sql
• Hibernate
• Jsp
• Oop
• Eclipse
• Apache Kafka
• Web Services
• Core Java
• Java Ee
• Sqlite
• Xml Parsing
• Spring