KGKumar GauravStaff Data Architect

Journey

From Python developer to Staff Data Architect.

Firmware, semiconductors, mobility, supply chain, banking, healthcare and cyber insurance. Each chapter took on a bigger system, a wider scope and more of the people behind it.

Years in engineering and architecture
12+Years in engineering and architecture
Companies, plus Uber and Intel as clients
5Companies, plus Uber and Intel as clients
Engineers led and developed
15+Engineers led and developed
Data platforms in production
TB+Data platforms in production

  1. 06

    Cowbell

    Period
    Sep 2023 - Present
    Tenure
    3 yrs 1 mo
    Based in
    Pune

    Staff Data Architect

    Oct 2025 - Present

    • Lead Data and AI architecture across large-scale platforms: enterprise foundations, global risk-data systems, warehouses, reusable frameworks and AI-ready infrastructure.
    • Architected the risk pool and data-signal foundation that grounds Cowbell's OMNI AI agents, and serves risk, product and analytics teams.
    • Built GlueFlux, a metadata-driven framework for Spark, Python and dbt workloads.
    • Architected Redshift medallion layers and domain marts with dbt on ECS.
    • Defined cross-region distribution patterns with residency, PII and operational serving in mind.

    Staff Software Engineer

    Sep 2023 - Oct 2025

    • Owned data architecture for cyber insurance products across US, UK and Japan.
    • Grew the global risk-data platform to tens of millions of company profiles and cut critical batch time from hours to minutes.
    • Cut storage and processing cost through compression, framework standardization and workload redesign.

  2. 05

    Nineleaps

    Period
    Jun 2021 - Sep 2023
    Tenure
    2 yrs 3 mos
    Based in
    Bengaluru

    Principal Engineer

    Apr 2022 - Sep 2023

    • Shifted from senior implementation to architecture leadership: platform direction, system trade-offs, design reviews and engineering guidance.
    • Led a Data Engineering team of 15+ engineers hired from IIT, NIT and ISM Dhanbad, training them in data engineering and growing them into production-ready engineers.
    • Tech Champion, Top Nurturer and ACE awards across Foundation Days.

    SDE 3

    Jun 2021 - Mar 2022

    • Delivered client data platforms while moving into the Principal track.

  3. 04

    Blue Yonder

    Period
    Dec 2019 - May 2021
    Tenure
    1 yr 5 mos
    Based in
    Bengaluru

    Senior Software Engineer

    Dec 2019 - May 2021

    • Data engineer on the Data Science team behind Blue Yonder's supply-chain AI: built the data and model-computation pipelines for demand forecasting and predictive analytics, and ran predictions at enterprise scale.
    • Large-scale analytical systems on Azure with PySpark and Synapse, moving from individual pipelines toward broader platform design.
    • Shipped and contributed within a mature platform-engineering model: every service built on shared, standardised abstractions, and production releases across many microservices ran end to end on automation, with zero manual steps. I now bring that zero-touch delivery discipline to data and AI platforms, where many teams still deploy by hand.

  4. 03

    Nineleaps

    Period
    Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
    Tenure
    1 yr 1 mo
    Based in
    Bengaluru

    SDE 3 · Ext: Uber Kirby

    Nov 2018 - Dec 2019

    • On Uber's Kirby team, owned how external data entered Uber's ecosystem: ingesting, validating and integrating third-party data into the platform.
    • Terabyte-scale data engineering with Spark, Kafka and self-serve pipelines, with fault-tolerant processing across billions of records.

  5. 02

    UST

    Period
    Sep 2017 - Oct 2018
    Tenure
    1 yr 1 mo
    Based in
    Bengaluru

    Product Development Engineer

    Sep 2017 - Oct 2018

    • Built the validation framework Intel used to test every feature of a processor before release, across pre-launch codenamed platforms.
    • Designed the ATMS and UDL frameworks, with compiler-style models that generate every combination a feature can take (for example, every Bluetooth scenario), in Python on AWS.
    • Led a team of 7. Django, PostgreSQL and REST. Two Certificates of Appreciation for Execution Mindset.

  6. 01

    American Megatrends

    Period
    Feb 2014 - Sep 2017
    Tenure
    3 yrs 7 mos
    Based in
    Chennai

    System Software Engineer

    Feb 2014 - Sep 2017

    • First project: migrated scattered data into one centralised system and built a Master Data Management (MDM) layer as the single source of truth.
    • Ran regional replication with PII handled correctly and data-protection rules respected in every region.
    • Built AMISVN, our own Python-based version control on top of the SVN server, plus the BIOS release tooling around it: release submissions, email automation and notification systems.
    • Team Excellence Award, 2015.