# Gaurav Mittal

> Data Infrastructure@Stripe

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gauravmittal

Specialties: Distributed Systems, Java, Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating System

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2020 – Present
- Currently staff engineer on Big Data Platform that manages Airflow, Hadoop, Spark and Iceberg at Stripe
- Tech Lead responsible for defining the vision and roadmap on Trino, Airflow, Spark, Hadoop, Flink teams over the years (owned and operated all of these systems as well)
- Key Contributor to Shepherd - next generation Feature Engineering Platform at Stripe.  (https://stripe.com/blog/shepherd-how-stripe-adapted-chronon-to-scale-ml-feature-development)
- Delivered multi-million dollar savings for Stripe's AWS spend through optimizations in Spark, Hadoop and Trino
- Reliability improvements to reduce failure rate from greater than 15% day to less than 1% per day for analytical queries within Stripe
- Tech Lead for reducing offline data exposure within Stripe

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Menlo Park, California
Software engineer on the Data Platform org. 
- Core contributor that grew to Tech Lead Cosco (Meta’s Shuffle Service Implementation similar to Apache Celeborn) that helped reduce the IO utilization for Facebook’s storage layer by 15%
- Rewrote Hadoop YARN’s 1.0 Job Tracker to fix several reliability and performance issues and added dynamic task allocation with work stealing to reduce cluster cpu utilization by 12% (multiple millions in savings)

### Project Lead @ Directi
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Delhi
Ringo - International calling app for smartphones

### Senior Software Engineer @ Directi
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | New Delhi, Delhi, India

### Software Developer @ Directi
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | New Delhi, Delhi, India


## Education
### Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

### B. Sc. (H) in Computer Science
Delhi University

### Schooling
Apeejay School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gaurav-mittal-b17b6325

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Last updated: 2026-04-12