I’m a Backend Engineer with 13+ years of experience building scalable systems for high-growth startups and enterprises. I love solving tough infra challenges, especially in Go and cloud-native architectures, and I enjoy turning complex problems into reliable, high-performance services. I thrive collaborating with product teams to ship practical, impactful solutions. My focus is on designing robust backend systems, scalable data pipelines, and efficient deployment and observability practices. I’m motivated by building teams and platforms that enable rapid product iteration while maintaining reliability and cost efficiency.

Gaurav Dudeja

I’m a Backend Engineer with 13+ years of experience building scalable systems for high-growth startups and enterprises. I love solving tough infra challenges, especially in Go and cloud-native architectures, and I enjoy turning complex problems into reliable, high-performance services. I thrive collaborating with product teams to ship practical, impactful solutions. My focus is on designing robust backend systems, scalable data pipelines, and efficient deployment and observability practices. I’m motivated by building teams and platforms that enable rapid product iteration while maintaining reliability and cost efficiency.

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I’m a Backend Engineer with 13+ years of experience building scalable systems for high-growth startups and enterprises. I love solving tough infra challenges, especially in Go and cloud-native architectures, and I enjoy turning complex problems into reliable, high-performance services. I thrive collaborating with product teams to ship practical, impactful solutions.

My focus is on designing robust backend systems, scalable data pipelines, and efficient deployment and observability practices. I’m motivated by building teams and platforms that enable rapid product iteration while maintaining reliability and cost efficiency.

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Experience Level

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Expert
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Language

Aragonese
Advanced
Javanese
Advanced

Work Experience

CoFounder at Cluvio
September 1, 2025 - Present
Co-founded Cluvio, a technology-first platform to enable community buying at scale in India's electronics market. Architected and built the backend in Go, designed a scalable, high-concurrency order flow and reliable deployment pipeline. Implemented vendor management and delivery-tracking tooling and engaged with customers and vendors to align technology with real-world workflows.
Freelance Backend Developer and GoLang Trainer at Self-Employed
August 1, 2025 - Present
Trained corporate engineering teams on Go fundamentals and modern backend architecture. Provided backend-architecture consulting to redesign legacy systems into scalable distributed applications.
Staff Engineer at Vio.com
December 1, 2023 - August 1, 2025
Led backend architecture for a high-growth travel platform serving millions of users. Eliminated bottlenecks by building a 5,000 RPS Go application, migrated PySpark pipelines reducing processing time by 60%, and introduced an AI-powered support bot. Led cross-functional teams to deliver feature upgrades with zero-downtime migrations.
Engineering Manager at Airtel Digital
March 1, 2022 - November 1, 2023
Scaled streaming infrastructure to handle 100M+ daily streams, reduced infrastructure costs by 30% through microservices optimization, and built a real-time personalization engine. Modernised legacy architecture with zero-downtime migration and led teams of 15+ engineers across product, data, and infrastructure.
Backend Developer at HelloFresh
August 1, 2021 - February 1, 2022
Architected menu planning systems to scale from single-country to multi-region operations; built Kafka pipelines for supplier and culinary data; implemented supplier split services for real-time SKU visibility; designed event-driven catalog generation and improved data warehouse efficiency. Achieved 99.9% uptime and improved system responsiveness through a custom cache engine.
Senior Software Engineer at Ephesoft
April 1, 2016 - May 1, 2018
Engineered a distributed import pipeline increasing document processing throughput; built an intelligent text analysis engine using Apache UIMA RUTA; designed a real-time Kafka pipeline for enterprise workflows; implemented a YARN-based parallel processing framework and improved OCR accuracy with Levenshtein distance.
Associate Technology at Nagarro
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2016
Worked on multiple technology initiatives as part of client engagements, focusing on backend and data processing components.
Software Engineer at SoftDive Technologies
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2015
Developed software solutions and backend services, contributing to data processing and integration efforts.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science at Maharshi Dayanand University
January 1, 2009 - January 1, 2013

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet

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Expert
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