Gaurav Bhatnagar
Software Engineer at Snowflake
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGaurav Bhatnagar is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building customer-focused products and shipping production systems from prototype to deployment in the Bay Area. He blends engineering and product instincts—having co-founded and served as CTO of an AI assistants startup and now working on Text-to-SQL at Snowflake—so he’s comfortable owning both strategy and implementation. His background spans distributed systems, real-time vision, and developer tooling, with hands-on C++, Python, TypeScript, and CI/CD experience from YC startups to lab research. An active open-source contributor, he has improved Neovim Lua configurations to enhance developer UX, showing attention to developer ergonomics as well as product polish. He also brings teaching and leadership experience from UC Berkeley, where he spent 200+ hours as a TA and led research projects that intersect systems and applied ML.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Business Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Business Administration at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science - BS Business Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS Business Administration at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessBachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Business Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Business Administration at UC Berkeley Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) programBachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley College of EngineeringHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Santa Clara High School
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (6)
neovim10
lua10
configuration-management10
nvim-cmp10
code-completion9
git9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim
May 2023 - Nov 2023
A launch point for your personal nvim configuration
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 PRs, 48 comments, 3 issues in 6 months
Contributions summary:Gaurav primarily focuses on configuring and modifying the Neovim configuration files, particularly the `init.lua` file. Their contributions involve enhancing the user's experience with features like code completion, snippets, and git integration. They have improved the tab jumping functionality with LuaSnip and added shift-tab support. The user also refactors the configuration to improve the structure and adds comments and configures various plugins.
nvim
mech-a/ECG-WatchDog
Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
An ML approach to PQRST Identification for arrhythmia. Presented at MakerFaire 2017
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
machine-learning
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