Gautam Kumar is a seasoned software developer currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Google, focusing on data backup and disaster recovery solutions for Google Cloud block storage. Previously, they were a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, where they improved the latencies of Sharepoint APIs, and contributed to the development of Adobe Captivate Web during their time at Adobe as a Computer Scientist 2. Gautam's career began at Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore, where they worked on OpenCL optimization and GPU driver development. They hold a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology.