Gaurav Ghop

Refactored core Next.js API modules into a reusable scaffolding template with standardized routing, validation, and error-handling patterns, reducing new-endpoint setup time from 6 hrs to under 2 hrs.

Resolved

Stripe payment defects blocking checkout on iOS and Android, including a webhook retry bug that dropped 1 in 40 successful payments, unblocking the first cross-platform release.

Integrated

Sentry monitoring across the backend with release tagging and alert routing, cutting mean time to detect production errors from hours to minutes and tying failures to specific deploys.

Software Engineer, Founding Team - OurFreedom.ai - New York, NY

(2026-06)

• Refactored core Next.js API modules into a reusable scaffolding template with standardized routing, validation, and error-handling patterns, reducing new-endpoint setup time from 6 hrs to under 2 hrs.
• Resolved Stripe payment defects blocking checkout on iOS and Android, including a webhook retry bug that dropped 1 in 40 successful payments, unblocking the first cross-platform release.
• Integrated Sentry monitoring across the backend with release tagging and alert routing, cutting mean time to detect production errors from hours to minutes and tying failures to specific deploys.

AI Software Engineer, Summer Intern - Tiny Archives - New York, NY

(2025-06 - 2025-08)

• Shipped a Python ingestion pipeline that normalized archival exports (EAD/XML, CSV, PDF) into a unified Pydantic schema, replacing 3 parsers.
• Built a RAG pipeline with LangChain and pgvector that grounded answers in 40,000 indexed documents and cut hallucination rate from 18 percent to 4 percent as measured by a weekly eval set of 500 queries.

Founding Engineer - Duende Ingenious - Pune, India

(2023-07 - 2024-08)

• Introduced PgBouncer connection pooling with PostgreSQL, reducing peak connection count by 85% and eliminating exhaustion related incidents.
• Built an asynchronous order processing queue in Node.js on AWS SQS with exponential backoff retries and a dead letter queue, cutting silent order failures from 0.5% to 0.3% of daily volume.
• Containerized backend services with Docker, automating CI/CD through GitHub Actions with integration tests, cutting release cycle from 2 weeks to 1.

Software Engineer I - eQ Technologic - Pune, India

(2021-08 - 2023-06)

• Built idempotent Kafka consumers with automated reconciliation across 40M+ part records, detecting and resolving 1,200+ revision mismatches per month between PLM and ERP systems.
• Developed Java Spring Boot microservices for a low code API Gateway, adding retry logic, circuit breakers, and JUnit integration tests to REST, OData and SOAP adapters that reduced failed SAP and Teamcenter sync jobs by 40%.
• Built a Kubernetes operator to provision multi-tenant connector deployments from CRDs, eliminating 200+ hand maintained manifests.
• Integrated SAML SSO, Kerberos, LDAP, OAuth, and X.509 certificate authentication against customer identity providers for US defense deployments.

Master of Science - Computer Engineering - New York University (2026-05)

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering - Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology (2021-05)