Gauraav Gupta Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Roles and Responsibilities: • Responsible for the entire Personal Loans platform (Investor and Borrower), and the growth of all product lines. • Lead 3 full-stack teams composed of EMs, Staff, senior, mid-level engineers with FE and BE expertise. • Define technical vision, strategies, and roadmaps to foster growth and innovation. Focus on nurturing high-performing teams, operationalizing success metrics, driving process enhancements, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. • Collaborate cross-functionally to prioritize key initiatives, fortify technical foundations, and steer critical decisions. • Contribute significantly to talent acquisition efforts, coaching talent, and shaping the platform's technical roadmap for Prosper's sustained evolution and success. Achievements: • Platform Optimization and Modernization: Led the migration of Prosper's entire platform to the cloud, enhancing scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency. Also migrated monolithic databases to domain-based databases for improved data management and system resilience. • User Experience Enhancement• System Performance and Scalability Improvement: Redesigned and optimized the investor system to solve performance and scalability problems• Data Management Enhancement: Migrated core listings services from Solr to cloud ES and built a centralized, secure Verification Document Management System using GCS. • Operational Excellence and Security Enhancements: Implemented real-time messaging queue systems, improved observability, monitoring, and alerts, and resolved security issues across the platform, increasing system reliability, proactive issue detection• Market Reach and Partner Integration: Enhanced SEO strategies, centralized marketing attributions, integrated GA/GTM, streamlined partner onboarding, and built centralized DM campaign systems, improving search rankings, tracking and analysis of marketing efforts, partner integration, and marketing campaign efficiency.

San Francisco Bay Area

Roles and Responsibilities: • Pioneered the establishment of the Acquisition & Growth division. • Managed the entire investor journey for retail and institutional investors. • Worked directly with marketing, legal, Capital markets, Customer care, Bizops stakeholders and other departments. Achievements and Projects: • System Architecture Enhancements: Migrated over 11 services from a monolithic to microservices architecture, enhancing system scalability, flexibility, and performance. • User Experience Enhancement: Redesigned the frontend to a React-based application, resulting in improved user interface and overall user experience. • System Optimization and Scalability: Redesigned the investor system to address performance and scalability issues, increasing system reliability and capacity to accommodate more users. • Data Service Migration: Migrated the core listings service from Solr to managed cloud-based Elastic Search, leading to improved search performance and system scalability. • Product Feature Development: Developed complex product features such as Platform Returns and Investor Returns, enhancing the functionality and attractiveness of the investment platform. • Document Management System Implementation: Implemented a centralized, secure Investor Verification Document Management System using GCS, migrating over 8 TB of data, resulting in improved document security and management efficiency. • Observability and Monitoring Enhancements: Enhanced observability by improving SLO/SLI, monitoring, and alerts, leading to increased system reliability and proactive issue detection. • Security Enhancements: Resolved multiple security issues across the platform, strengthening platform security and compliance measures. • Bank Account Verification Transition: Transitioned from Penny Check to Plaid for bank account verification for Prosper customers, resulting in improved verification accuracy and user experience.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Owned the entire product lifecycle, from beta to market launch, ensuring market readiness.• Led OMM architecture initiatives for scalability and operational maturity.• Developed critical features including billing and usage functionalities for market readiness.• Managed cross-functional teams to drive product development and strategic initiatives.• Ensured seamless coordination between engineering, product management, and business teams.• Provided technical expertise and guidance to support product vision and roadmap execution.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed web engineering team, leveraging open-source technologies for product development.• Collaborated closely with Product Management to drive innovative initiatives from concept toimplementation.• Led technical design and delivery, ensuring scalability and high performance of solutions.• Served as Scrum master, guiding Agile development processes and mentoring engineers.• Collaborated with Architects on enterprise solutions and contributed to recruitment efforts.• Provided third-level support, ensuring uninterrupted production operations.

San Francisco Bay Area

I spearheaded the web engineering team responsible for managing the e-commerce hotel web application, guiding it through various stages of the product development lifecycle. Through close collaboration with Product Management, Business groups, and UX professionals, I contributed extensively to strategizing and prioritizing upcoming product initiatives. Our collaborative efforts were integral in steering the project towards successful outcomes.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

As the technical lead, I oversaw the clinical trials web product serving the National Institute of Health (NIH). I collaborated with product management and other business stakeholders to prioritize tasks and develop features. My role involved spearheading end-to-end development using Java-based open-source technologies to ensure robust and effective solutions met the project's demands.

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for building the web product on open-source technologies like Java/J2EE, Spring MVC module,Hibernate ORM, Oracle database and various other technologies.• Deeply involved in design, implement, and unit testing Java web development on large scale, high-volume sitesusing open-source technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, Struts, SOAP, RESTful services, XML and various designpatterns.• Project Planning, handling process audits and maintaining project process related.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Responsible for building the web product on open-source technologies like Java/J2EE, Structs, Spring MVCmodule, Hibernate ORM, Oracle database and various other technologies.• Deeply involved in design, implement, and unit testing Java web development on large scale, high-volume sites.

Bengaluru Area, India

Responsible for building the web product on open-source technologies like Java/J2EE, Spring MVC module,Hibernate ORM, Oracle database, and various other technologies.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Engg.), Computer Science And Engineering

The Berkeley Executive Leadership Program