# Gaurav Ahlawat > Data @ LinkedIn Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/gauravahlawat Focused on building scalable data infrastructure and AI-powered solutions that drive organizational efficiency and innovation. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer, Data Science @ LinkedIn Jan 2026 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer, Data Science @ LinkedIn Jan 2022 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area - Architecting the multi-agent reasoning engines that bridge foundation models with production-grade data applications. I lead the transition of GenAI into mission-critical systems, enabling users across Linkedin to conduct sophisticated, self-serve analytics through agentic workflows - Data Governance & Democratization: Developing frameworks and standards that balance data accessibility with quality controls, enabling self-service analytics while reducing operational overhead - Foundational Architecture: Designing scalable data architectures and migration strategies that support growing organizational needs and improve development velocity - Cross-Functional Leadership: Driving technical initiatives across multiple teams and establishing engineering best practices ### Big Data Engineer @ Goldman Sachs Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater New York City Area - Built Knowledge Graph to capture firm internal and external relationships to extract business insights; built data pipelines to combine multiple sources of structured and unstructured data into one heterogeneous graph with millions of vertices and billions of edges - Built distributed and scalable solution in Hadoop ecosystem for serving graph data, reducing the response time of each batch API call by more than 80% on average - using pre-processing and caching the milestone data into sequence files - Constructed framework in Hadoop ecosystem to allow indexing and generic filtering to enable querying the graph using attributes and secondary keys, helping reduce the number of calls by 50% compared to when only querying with primary keys was possible - Led and implemented data governance standards for team's graph generation and analytics pipelines, resulting in streamlined processes and improved data integrity – helping comply with consent orders from different Govt. organizations ### Data Scientist @ W. R. Berkley Corporation Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Dover, Delaware Area • Built an internal machine-learning platform for training models and improved speed of model training using Nvidia's RAPIDS. • Developed ETL pipelines for data ingestion from 6 regional companies and trained ML models for pricing P&L insurance. ### Data Engineer / Data Science Co-op @ John Hancock Investments Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area - Building ETL pipelines and workflows for internal and external data sources and - Working with Fuzzy Matching module for data matching and Data Integration flows. - Helping create Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning models - Using Market basket analysis to make recommendations ### Part Time Lecturer @ Rutgers University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area Part Time Lecturer for Course Data 101 Teach students, majoring in Computer Science, Economics, Biology, the basics of R programming and Statistical concepts necessary for Data Exploration and Analysis ### Visiting Researcher @ Harvard University Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area Project - Policy and Institutional Research Project https://www.hpirp.org/ Worked on Indian Education policies and reforms Composed a research report on the Implementation Details and Statistical Analysis on the New Model College Degree Policy. ### Data Scientist @ AIESEC in Chandigarh Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Chandigarh Area, India Queried and Analyzed data collected from HubSpot, used clustering for driving insights about the demographics of the people who join AIESEC and for market segmentation for marketing drives. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Rutgers University ### Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering CCET ### 12th Standard in Adult High School/Secondary Diploma Program Saint Soldier International School, Chandigarh ### High School in 10th Standard Saint Soldier International School ### COURSERA ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gauravahlawat01 --- Source: https://flows.cv/gauravahlawat JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/gauravahlawat/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12