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Gaurav
Luthra

Founder, Yuvanya Systems · Distinguished Engineer

I architect backend systems that serve millions of users - and stay fast under load.

15+ years across distributed systems, cloud platforms and ML-powered products. Patented work in content sync, a platform scaled to millions of users, now building next-generation observability tooling.

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Anatomy of a system that stays fast

// 01 Experience

  1. Founder & CTO · Yuvanya Systems

    A hands-on technology practice that takes engagements from architecture through production - backend systems, cloud & DevOps, data engineering and ML integrations, built and shipped, not just advised. Current focus is next-generation observability: self-training anomaly detection, continuous profiling, and telemetry query tooling.

    Goobservabilitydistributed systemsLLM / RAG

  2. Distinguished Engineer · Zippia

    Lead Computer Scientist → Senior Computer Architect → Distinguished Engineer

    Drove technical strategy for a job platform serving millions of users. Led the cloud-native migration to GCP (28% lower infrastructure spend), architected the ML-powered recommendation engine over 7M+ listings (+40% relevance), decomposed the platform into 10+ microservices (30% faster deployments, 40% lower p95 latency), and hardened the edge with bot detection and attack mitigation. Mentored a team of 10 engineers.

    Node.jsPythonGCPKubernetesElasticsearchMongoDBRedisNginx

  3. Head of Engineering · Motofix

    Owned engineering at a vehicle-services startup and built the backend platform from the ground up - data model, REST APIs and cloud deployment. Set the technical direction and turned product requirements into a running system that took the business from zero to launch.

    backend architectureREST APIscloud deployment

  4. Lead Software Engineer · Armor5 acquired by Digital Guardian

    Engineered the reverse-proxy core's client-server architecture (25% faster responses) and built a virtual browser for secure web isolation - real-time DOM mirroring with CSS/JS/HTML caching.

    reverse proxyvirtual browserweb security

  5. Software Engineer 2 · Adobe

    Invented and patented the audio-fingerprint content-sync algorithm behind Adobe Dhwani (US9392144B2), led development of the Android client, and drove subscription-licensing development for Adobe Licensing Management.

    Androidcontent synclicensing

  6. Software Engineer · Newgen Software

    Built a C#/.NET layout engine for high-volume PDF generation (+30% document throughput) and re-engineered the data-parsing layer, cutting file I/O 40%.

    C#.NETPDF rendering

// 02 Selected work

Recent platform engineering across observability and data systems, plus career highlights.

observability · go

Anomaly Detection Engine

Built a self-training anomaly detection engine for alerting: seasonality-aware baseline models precomputed out-of-band, with zero-allocation scoring in the evaluation hot path - no network I/O at query time.

  • 200ms → 8.5ns score per evaluation
  • 7-10 → 100k+ max alert timeseries
  • Zero-alloc hot path, fully unit-tested
Read the deep-dive →
observability · go + react

Continuous Application Profiler

Built end-to-end continuous profiling: high-throughput ingest across 8 runtime wire formats (Go, JFR, Python, Node, Ruby, .NET, PHP, native), dedicated profile storage, a query layer, and flame-graph UI with differential analysis.

  • 44k+ lines across ingest → storage → UI
  • 8 runtime profile formats parsed
  • 200+ tests incl. fuzz coverage
observability · language tooling

Unified Telemetry Query Language

Designed and built a unified query language with a transpiler to the engine's native dialects - one ergonomic syntax across metrics, logs and traces, no raw PromQL/LogsQL required.

  • Lexer → parser → transpiler, fully tested
  • One syntax across telemetry signals
data platform · ml + search

Job Recommendation Engine

Architected an ML-powered recommendation and personalized-search platform - Elasticsearch retrieval with data-science ranking over 7M+ listings, feeding a personalization layer for search, recommendations and lifecycle email.

  • +40% recommendation relevance
  • +25% engagement from personalization
edge · security

Bot Detection at the Edge

Engineered bot detection and attack mitigation at the Nginx edge - request fingerprinting, behavioral rate intelligence and automated blocking, stopping abusive traffic before it reaches application servers.

  • Edge-layer defense in depth
  • GCP · AWS · on-prem deployments
mobile · patented

Audio-Fingerprint Content Sync

Invented and patented an audio-fingerprint content-synchronization algorithm - granted US patent - and led development of the Android client that shipped it.

  • US9392144B2 granted patent
  • Engineering excellence award
Patent ↗

// 03 Writing

Deep dives on the systems I build - distributed systems, observability, performance, and the math behind them.

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// 04 Shipping, measured

Live from the GitHub API - refreshed weekly by a scheduled workflow.

-contributions / 12 mo
-commits / 12 mo
-pull requests / 10 yr
-lines changed / 10 yr
-code reviews / 12 mo
-stars earned

Commits & pull requests - month over month, last 10 years

commits pull requests

Contribution heatmap - last 12 months

Languages by volume

// 05 Yuvanya Systems

I take on consulting engagements through my company - hands-on architecture and delivery, not slideware.

  • Backend & distributed systems - microservices, APIs, real-time pipelines, search
  • Cloud, DevOps & SRE - GCP / AWS / on-prem, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, cost control
  • Data & AI platforms - analytics pipelines, recommendation systems, LLM / RAG / agentic integrations
Work with me →

// 06 Patents, awards & research

us patent · granted US9392144B2

Content synchronization algorithm - Adobe Dhwani

us patent application US2015/0373231

Video synchronization based on an audio cue - Adobe

award Adobe Special Contribution

For Adobe Dhwani · plus Adobe Bravo for MAX 2013

award Armor5 "You Rock"

Reverse-proxy performance optimization (-25% response time)

award Newgen Star Performer

Layout-engine contributions

research Enhanced JPEG Steganography

Published paper (ISSN 1793-8163, 2010) + two national-conference papers on information security

academic Full Scholarship × 4 years

B.Tech with CS minor, 8.95 CGPA - TIT&S Bhiwani