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Technical Architect, Enterprise Product Specialist & MBA

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Featured Writing

Here's how I think about it.

Long-form guides, frameworks, and lessons from 16 years of building at scale.

Agentic AI

Building an AI Orchestration Platform From Scratch: What I Learned

Architectural decisions, trade-offs, and what 16 years of enterprise systems taught me about production AI.

12 min readMar 2026
Product + Tech

Static Site Generators in 2026: What They Get Right, What They Get Wrong, and Why I Built Something Simpler

A look at static site generators like Hugo, 11ty, and Astro — and why I built BlogGen, a simpler alternative for personal blogs.

9 min readMar 2026
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About

Experience is an unfair advantage.

I'm a Technical Architect and Enterprise Product Specialist with 16+ years building at the intersection of technology, product, and strategy — primarily for Fortune 500 clients across financial services, telecom, and tech.

I've led cross-continental engineering teams, transformed legacy tools into full-scale enterprise platforms, driven cloud migrations that cut costs by 30%, and operated AI/ML pipelines in production. From data engineering and executive dashboards to CI/CD modernization with Docker, Kubernetes, and Grafana — I've shipped across the full stack of enterprise complexity.

@TechWithGaurav is where I distill all of it into content that's practical, opinionated, and built for people who actually build things.

"Ship First. Iterate Always."
Implementation Mantra
Track Record

Built in the trenches.

16+
Years in Tech
F500
Client Tier
50+
Engineers Led
30%
Cost Saved via SaaS Migration
Content Pillars

Categorization is Clarity.

Five focused areas where building meets teaching.

Agentic AI

LLM trends & practical agentic workflows

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System Design

Architecture patterns & real trade-offs

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Product + Tech

Product thinking for engineers

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Career Growth

IC to leader transition playbook

Case Studies

From complex to clear.

Deep dives into enterprise problems solved — architecture decisions, trade-offs, and outcomes.

Enterprise PPM
American Multinational Tech Company · ITBM

Digital Transformation and Enterprise PPM Implementation

Ideation to delivery with a team of 15+ across continents.

PPM → ServiceNow
Global Investment Manager ($3.4T AUM) · Transformation

From Time Tracker to Full-Scale PPM — Then to ServiceNow

Evolving a tool, then knowing when to migrate away.

SaaS Migration
Global Investment Manager ($3.4T AUM) · Cloud

On-Prem to Cloud SaaS: 30% Cost Reduction

Moving Microfocus PPM to SaaS with custom data pipelines.

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