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Gaurav Gargate is an experienced technology leader currently serving as Vice President of Engineering at Confluent, where responsibilities include managing organizations that develop cloud-native products and platforms. Gaurav has significant expertise as a speaker and panelist on topics such as distributed systems, leadership, and management, participating in events like DevOpsDays and APIWorld. Previous roles include Director of Engineering at Box, where contributions focused on microservices and core security products, and Technical Advisor at Properly, Inc. Gaurav's career also spans positions at Microsoft, where leadership in delivering frameworks for Microsoft Dynamics ERP was notable, as well as entrepreneurial experience as the founder of devEffort. Gaurav holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from WIT.