# Gautam Roy > Scaling the backend for the Physical economy Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/gautamroy I love solving tough product, growth, and scaling challenges. I enjoy strategic technical leadership roles which set the architectural direction for broad engineering orgs. I am passionate about engineers thriving on the IC track. ## Work Experience ### Principal Engineer / Director @ Motive Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Engineering lead for the Application Architecture team. Responsible for overall reliability, scalability, cost efficiency of Motive Backend across org of 200+ Backend engineers. Develop and execute multi-year strategy to scale Motive's backend architecture. Craft path from startup to IPO ready company with 99.99% availability Work with CTO and senior engineering leadership on technical strategy, and cross-cutting projects I am part of the engineering hiring committee that vets all engineering hiring packets. Part of Promo Committee ### Advisory Board Member @ Ladderworks Jan 2019 – Present ### Advisor @ Outpatient, Inc Jan 2017 – Present Outpatient is a mobile platform to simplify and improve outpatient health - for the Patient and Family. ### Software Engineer @ Houseparty (Life on Air.) Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area * Helped re-architect the backend and mobile apps to deal with the explosive user growth from 2 million to 20 million active users * Improved play store rating from < 3 to 4.2. Helped re-architect the android app to have proper data model, persistence layer, performance and low crash rate. * Enabled faster product development and growth by establishing a experimentation framework and data pipelines ### Staff Engineer @ Facebook Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Menlo park Founding Engineering Lead - Facebook Lite I started the Facebook Lite Android App project and led it from inception to the milestone of a 100 million users. I was the overall technical lead across product, growth, platform, performance and backend infrastructure. Facebook Lite took less than 9 months to cross 100M monthly active users making it one of the fastest apps/internet services ever to reach this milestone Led to creation of Lite ecosystem of apps across the industry that includes Google Search Lite, LinkedIn Lite, Twitter Lite, Skype Lite ### Software Engineer - Growth @ Facebook Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Work on growing the Facebook application on feature phones https://www.facebook.com/f4ep ### Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure @ Facebook Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 Projects: Scribe: Facebook's logging framework https://www.facebook.com/scribe.software Ptail: a realtime data reader streaming data from multiple Scribe-HDFS clusters in parallel and provides checkpoint support; the entire realtime pipeline of Scribe->Calligraphus->PTail can achieve less-than-10-second end-to-end latency from web endpoints to PTail applications. Puma: real time Stream processing backend. Powers various insights products are Facebook like domain insights, application insights, page insights ### Research Assistant @ Texas A&M University Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 Work in Distributed Computing Group. Research on distributed algorithms and systems, fault tolerant systems which are applicable in networking and optimization. ### Software Engineer @ Samsung India Software Operations Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 Worked in System LSI Division. Developed Symbian based Multimedia Applications for Mobile phones on Samsung's mobile application processor socs. ### Summer Inter @ IBM India Research Lab Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 Worked on project to devise a metric to compare same utterances by two speakers in terms of accents ## Education ### Texas A&M University ### Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati ### Shrimati Sulochanadevi Singhania High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gautam-roy-607aa711 - Portfolio: http://parasol.tamu.edu/people/groys/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/gautamroy JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/gautamroy/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12