Gautam Garg is a Engineering Director at American Express | Machine Learning | Platform Engineering | IIT Delhi | Ex-Yahoo at American Express. He possess expertise in c++, java, algorithms, data structures, hadoop and 22 more skills. He is proficient in English and Hindi. Colleagues describe him as "Gautam is an intelligent and an assiduous professional with strong work ethics. Technically adept at programming , systems design and meticulous in his decision making. He is knowledgeable and well informed on upcoming technologies in his domain. He played a pivotal role on promising products and initiatives on Real time data streaming , Machine learning platform and Distributed Computing. His eye for detail has always enabled the team to have a unique vantage point for the systems and features that he has designed and lead. He is a wise and a knowledgeable mentor to his team members and enabled them to be meticulous while solving complex technical problems. His sense of ownership and accountability for the task undertaken is exemplary and always been his core at whatever he undertakes and he always keeps an extremely competitive bench mark for himself. I wish him a prosperous , bright and a successful career ahead.", "It is a pleasure of working with Gautam for past 3 years at Amex . During this time, we worked together on multiple projects related Big data and Machine learning. Gautam is a person with a strong ownership and driving for results all the time. Gautam is creative, energetic, solution oriented and highly motivated with great communication skills. He is an asset to any company that he’s with.", and "What differentiates Gautam from everyone else is his background in both Computer science and Mathematics from IIT, Delhi. He is capable of understanding, innovating and building on theoretical concepts and complex technology in a dynamic environment – which never fails to add tremendous value to the team, and to the product. I feel glad to write a recommendation for Gautam Garg for his work as Engineer II at American Express. I have worked with Gautam for around a year when I was working as a Director Technical Architecture with American Express. His work in the capacity of an Engineer at American Express involved building the backend of an UI driven tool to query and execute rule based algorithms on American Express big-data data warehouse. Following which he contributed significantly in building some core capabilities in American Express real-time stream processing platform – namely tracking message loss on data streams using Kafka, Spark Streaming and HBase. I observed that Gautam was always very through in his design thinking and architectural decision making. Gautam is a capable professional who is ready to assume significant responsibilities."