Gautam Mallick

About Gautam Mallick

I’m a Senior Consulting Engineer at MongoDB, where I work with Fortune 500 companies, unicorns, mid-size organizations, and startups to help them get the most out of MongoDB. My work spans the entire product lifecycle—covering migrations, architecture design, performance tuning, scaling, security, and ongoing optimization. I partner with customers to solve complex data challenges, ensuring their deployments are resilient, efficient, and aligned to business needs.In this role, I collaborate with consulting engineers, project managers, and account executives to deliver high-impact outcomes. Acting as a trusted advisor, I guide teams in adopting MongoDB best practices, designing scalable architectures, and building resilience into their systems. I also share real-world customer insights with Product and Engineering teams to help shape future product improvements.Previously, I served as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Victoria’s Secret, where I managed mission-critical deployments for one of the world’s most recognized retail brands. My focus was on cloud architecture, automation, and performance optimization—ensuring reliability, security, and scalability at global scale.With over 12 years of experience in the IT industry and certifications in AWS and Kubernetes (CKA), I’m passionate about reducing operational overhead, strengthening system reliability, and turning complex challenges into solutions that deliver real business value.Beyond tech, I like to keep life interesting - mixing curiosity, creativity, and a bit of fun into everything I do.

Experience

1. Senior Consulting Engineer

   MongoDB

   Jan 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Help customers successfully migrate from self-hosted MongoDB (on-prem or cloud) to MongoDB Atlas, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum performance.• Support clients across the full application lifecycle - from portfolio assessment and planning, to design, deployment, development, and release.• Design and implement scalable, secure deployment architectures tailored to customer needs.• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including fellow consulting engineers, project managers, and account executives to deliver high-impact outcomes.• Act as a trusted technical advisor to customers, helping them adopt MongoDB best practices and optimise their deployments.• Provide feedback to Product and Engineering teams to help shape future product improvements based on real-world customer use cases.

Education

• Sree Chitra Thirunal College of Engineering, Pappanamcode, Thiruvananthapuram

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

  2012

• Central Board of Secondary Education

  Informatics

  1996 — 2007

Skills

• Databases
• Change Management
• C
• Unix
• Sql
• Linux
• Red Hat Linux
• Toad 9.0
• Abacus
• Apollo Gds
• Incident Reporting
• Worldspan
• Sabre
• Ticketing Tools
• C++
• Incident Management
• Autosys
• Jira
• Amadeus Gds
• Travel Management
• Gds
• Shell Scripting