Ravi Gairola
Open Source Developer at Orange Tree Consulting
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRavi Gairola is an engineering leader and open-source developer based in San Francisco with 13+ years of hands-on experience building infrastructure, teams, and AI products from the ground up. He has scaled organizations from small founder teams to 40+ engineers across fintech, gaming, adtech, and legal tech while shipping production AI features like RAG pipelines, multi-agent orchestration, and sub-2-second first-token latency systems. As a founder/CTO he filed five provisional patents for tonal profiling and memory architectures and built cost-efficient cloud backends that idle for single-digit dollars monthly. He pairs deep backend expertise (Elasticsearch, Node.js, AWS, Docker/ECS) with product instincts—having taken solo projects to market on App Store and pitched YC/Techstars. An active open-source contributor, he strengthens tooling and migration paths (e.g., an Elasticsearch exporter focused on reliability and bulk-transfer optimizations). He prefers small teams with real ownership and excels at translating ambiguous research-grade ideas into resilient, production-ready systems.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Karlsruhe University of Applied SciencesMaster, Business Administration, Master, Business Administration at Hochschule für Ökonomie und Management, München
English, German, Portuguese, French
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Github Skills (20)
data-migration10
javascript10
back-end-development10
amazon-elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
enumeration9
enums9
apidoc9
loops9
api9
eclipse6
android-testing6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mallocator/Elasticsearch-Exporter
Aug 2012 - Mar 2017
A small script to export data from one Elasticsearch cluster into another.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:243 commits, 14 PRs, 99 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ravi made several commits focused on improving the functionality and reliability of the Elasticsearch exporter script. Their work included removing dependencies, adding usage information, and defining package configurations. A significant portion of their effort was devoted to fixing a bug that prevented exports from completing, improving logging, and refactoring code to utilize bulk requests, which suggests a focus on optimizing data transfer and ensuring successful data migration between Elasticsearch clusters.
elasticsearch-cluster
mallocator/gulp-international
Mar 2016 - Jul 2016
A gulp plugin that creates multi language versions of your source files
Contributions:18 releases, 41 commits, 32 pushes in 3 months
gulp-plugin
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