Saurav G.

About Saurav G.

Engineering leader with 20+ years building large scale distributed SaaS delivering multi millon dollar impact.Built and guided high-performing leadership teams, directly managing managers and architects responsible for 40+ engineers.Key Leadership Highlights:* Director-level leadership across top-tier tech companies including Netapp, Zscaler, VMware, Amazon, and Netskope.* Built and managed engineering organizations of up to 40+ members, including managers, architects, and senior engineers across geographies.* Deep experience in technical strategy, roadmap development, vision planning, and executive-level stakeholder engagement.* A driving force behind multiple cutting-edge platform initiatives in Backend and Platform Engineering - AI/ML orchestrated Retail Automation platform, FinOps, Data Fabric for Security, Cloud security posture management etc.* 10+ years of hands on experience delivering micro Services in public cloud environments using Java ecosystem, Scala, Python, event-driven messaging systems and SQL/NoSQL database.* 5+ years of work experience with data engineering platforms, ML/AI, ML-ops services including GenAI.* Collaborative leader with a hands-on approach to solving problems, making architecture decisions and working cross-functionally with product, customer support/success, UX and marketing teams to solve complex business problems.Specialties: Engineering and thought leadership, Cloud Computing, Distributed systems and server architecture, Big Data Analytics/Security Data Lake and Machine learning, SaaS, Finops,Retail

Experience

1. Head of Engineering

   NetApp

   Dec 2025 — Present

   Building Netapp Instaclustr team in India