# Gurwinder Singh Gulati

> Engineer at Uber

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gurwinder

Focused on the intersection of business and technology: how tech can disrupt and transform everyday business practices.

Specialties: Scalable Backend Systems, Applied Machine Learning

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Uber
Jan 2021 – Present
Tech lead for the Membership BEAR ML team

Previously:
Tech lead for the Membership (UberOne) Payments team

### Senior Software Engineer @ Netflix
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
- Ads Engineering: automating ad campaigns for $X00,000,000 of ad spend with A/B testing across a range of major platforms (Facebook, Youtube, DV360) to drive subscriber growth. Automate creation & management of 10,000s of ads per month.
- Machine Learning: improve automated cross-platform rebudgeting service to automatically focus spend on the best ROI/CAC campaigns. Focus on reliability & correctness to allow for faster & more confident A/B testing of novel rebudgeting strategies for all of Netflix’s programmatic ad spend.

### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
- Recruiter Search team: working on a Lucene-based search engine that recruiters use to find new candidates
- Machine Learning: implementing new machine learning features (1% - 5% improvements in target metrics). Hold Patent Application No. 16/023,894 for contextual search suggestions to interactively improve the query; and Patent Application No. 16/446,364 for contextual search ranking using entity topic representations
- Diversity Relevance: architecting and implementing representative reranking, resulting in 95% of all searches being gender-representative with respect to the qualified population of the search (https://lnkd.in/gBPmGxe)
- Backend Engineering: improving performance to significantly reduce operating expenses (substantially reduced the number of servers needed)

Key Technologies: Java, Scala, Javascript, Lucene, Hadoop, Map-Reduce, Kafka

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, CA
- Ads Delivery Insights team: creating a dashboard for advertisers to understand their ads’ performance and delivery metrics
- Full Stack work: growth - increase revenue 5 - 15% on different subsets of our advertiser base with each successful experiment by improving our ads creation experience; frontend - working on creating the new delivery insights product; backend - scaling backend QPS, adding new features and data pipelines

Key Technologies: PHP (XHP), Javascript (React / Flux), C++, Python, SQL

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Menlo Park, CA
- Develop software for the Parse.com team
- Worked with many disparate parts of the codebase on allowing developers on the Parse platform to implement arbitrary authentication, including webhook verification
  - Backend (primarily): Go, C++, Ruby
  - Frontend: Ruby on Rails, HTML 5/CSS 3/Javascript
  - Mobile: Objective C (iOS), Java (Android)

### Teaching Assistant, CSE 341 (Programming Languages) @ University of Washington
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Conduct quiz section with lecture, in-class problems, and group activities
- Help prepare review materials, homework, and automated grading framework
- Offer office hours to help students with class work and challenging assignments
- Two quarters running: Winter 2015 and Spring 2015

### Teaching Assistant, CSE 413 (Programming Languages for Non-Majors) @ University of Washington
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
- Help prepare review materials, homework, and automated grading framework
- Conduct office hours to help students with class work and challenging assignments

### Software Development Intern @ Hulu
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Santa Monica
- Developing the Android mobile app, including bug triage as well as novel feature development
- End-to-end design and implementation of a service, website and Android app to manage and automate Hulu's suite of devices

### Research Assistant @ University of Washington
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Tacoma
- Worked as sole RA with Professor Teredesai and 3 grad students on quadcopter-related research: computer vision (OpenCV), obstacle detection and avoidance, distributed heterogeneous computing (Raspberry Pi)
- Created diagnostic and debugging GUI in C++; improved iteration time by 50% from 10 minutes to 5 minutes

### Software Development Intern @ ReadyPulse
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Bellevue, Washington
- Develop a comprehensive automated web testing back-end in Java for the ReadyPulse website. The regression testing is data-driven and populates a cloud-stored SQL database.
- Data mining for researching potential client companies and VCs


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of Washington
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

### Certificate: Entrepreneurship Essentials
Harvard Business School Online
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gurwindergulati

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Last updated: 2026-03-22